Visual Art Archives

Dance

Desperate times call for ‘Anna Karenina’

Lou Fancher - February 26, 2024

Joffrey Ballet's triumphant return to Cal Performances revives a literary tale that centers love after loss.

Lit

With dazzling breadth, ‘Art is Art’ highlights 40 years of creation by artists with disabilities

Lou Fancher - January 4, 2024

Milestone book beautifully situates local nonprofit Creativity Explored's artists in the canon.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Stalin’s funeral, New Deal art, and a harrowing Mexican fable of unrest

Dennis Harvey - May 27, 2021

Three new movies seem like history repeating. Plus, an invigorating Legacy Film Festival On Aging

Music

Now Watch This: Madison McFerrin, OSEES, Automatic, more video delights

John-Paul Shiver - March 8, 2021

A clutch of new audio-visual offerings to turn you on to up-and-comers and familiar faves.

Movies

Performing poverty in ‘Nomadland’ and ‘White Tiger’

Tiny - March 7, 2021

Two acclaimed movies from poverty outsiders don't go far enough in exposing wealth-hoarding and corporate slavery.

Music

Oakland’s Brijean on effervescent new LP ‘Feelings’—and music’s essential conviviality

Daniel Bromfield - February 25, 2021

"It was like sampling ourselves or our group of friends," say duo, whose technique included hours of improvisation.

News + Politics

Our biggest news stories of 2020

Marke B. and Tim Redmond - December 30, 2020

1 million readers, 950+ stories, and a community of engaged supporters that can't be beat: Here's what we accomplished together this year.

Art

Two artists from Black Joy Parade talk end-of-year resilience

Maddy Clifford - December 11, 2020

"The main opportunity I can see is that the general public is suddenly left with a lot more time to really look at creativity around them."

Art

Divine intervention: Reconfiguring monumental art project ‘The Black Woman is God’

Maddy Clifford - November 11, 2020

My experience as part of the ongoing SOMArts exhibit, now entering a new phase, pushed me to return to what matters.

Art

On being seen: Online MoAD exhibition showcases the work of San Quentin artists

Maddy Clifford - October 21, 2020

In 'Meet Us Quickly,' artists incarcerated at the site of one of the nation's most deadly COVID-19 reframe their experience in the US prison-industrial complex.

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