Emily Wilson

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Emily Wilson lives in San Francisco. She has written for different outlets, including Smithsonian.com, The Daily Beast, Hyperallergic, Women’s Media Center, The Observer, Alta Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, California Magazine, UC Santa Cruz Magazine, and SF Weekly. For many years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco. She hosts the short biweekly podcast Art Is Awesome.

Unraveling Rene Magritte’s late riddles

September 25, 2018

ART LOOKS The work of 20th century surrealist Belgian painter Rene Magritte’s,with its iconic green apples and men in bowler hats, invites the viewers question reality....

Movies

‘Bel Canto’ director on the unity of different voices

September 23, 2018

In Bel Canto, Ann Patchett’s acclaimed 2001 book—and now a movie by Paul Weitz (About a Boy, Grandma, American Pie), currently in theaters— people...

Opera singer Russell Thomas on diversity, drive, and ‘Roberto Devereux’

September 8, 2018

ALL EARS When opera singer Joy Davidson heard tenor Russell Thomas sing in his high school choir in Miami, she asked him if he’d ever considered...

Touching down on ‘Planet Celadon’

September 1, 2018

ART LOOKS The video and dance performance coming to the Asian Art Museum, Planet Celadon: Our Receiver Is Operating, features scuba gestures, air traffic signals,...

Lit

A showcase of ‘young blood’ Asian American writers

August 28, 2018

The Pilipinx American Library, a non-circulating library in the reading room at the Asian Art Museum, has bean bag chairs, a table with books...

Tattoo legend “Lew the Jew” Alberts rediscovered at CJM

July 30, 2018

Don Ed Hardy, who became obsessed by tattoos when he was only 10 years old, hates how the artform was perceived for a long...

Movies

‘Dark Money’ explores the terrible consequences of Citizens United

July 27, 2018

MOVIES When Kimberly Reed first heard about Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that determined corporations were people and money was speech, allowing...

Culture

A night market bursting with flavor at Asian Art Museum

July 15, 2018

Chef Tu David Phu had just one requirement for the dozen chefs joining him at the Chef’s Hawker Centre Festival at the Asian Art...

Fake news and viral lies: de Young show and panel examine propaganda

July 11, 2018

“Propaganda can be as important as petroleum. The heart, too, must have its combustibles; the engine that is man must be stocked with hatreds.” ...

Onstage

An Asian American twist on the bourgeoisie, white wine included

July 4, 2018

ONSTAGE A couple years ago Leah Nanako Winkler and her colleagues at Youngblood, a collective of playwrights under 30, were looking at the season...