Emily Wilson, Author at 48 hills

Art

Binding craft to concept at Center for the Book, from Yoko Ono to Reginald Walker

June 12, 2023

Curator Megan N. Liberty's latest show highlights a surprising artistic intersection of materials and ideas.

Art

Munch’s ‘Madonna’ and a Marina Abramović rose quartz dragon on which to rest

May 11, 2023

With surprising range, "Rituals of Devotion" explores the many languages of love.

Arts + Culture

‘What These Walls Won’t Hold’ is incarcerated people’s drive to create

March 30, 2023

Adamu Chan's documentary blows lid off official accounts of life in San Quentin at the height of COVID.

Dance

With joy and uplift, COLORFORMS leaps from screen to stage at SF Ballet

March 13, 2023

COVID forced choreographer Myles Thatcher to film his new dance at arts institutions; now it debuts live

Art

Glitter-strewn resistance: Amalia Mesa-Bains talks beauty

March 9, 2023

Groundbreaking Chicana artist traces path of her Berkeley retrospective.

Art

In ‘Sobremesa,’ a chain of artists serves up china dumplings, doughy ducks, plum branches

March 6, 2023

Catharine Clark Gallery's tag-team show gives artists prompts to set their own table—with real food accompaniment.

Art

Illuminating an Indigenous future through Mayan cosmology and ancestral weaving

March 5, 2023

With 'The Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim' at Root Division, curators Katherin Canton and Mariana Moscoso follow the Saq’be’.

Onstage

Erin Merritt stirs domestic terrorism, violent rhetoric—and humor!—into ‘Tea Party’

February 28, 2023

The director, weathering ALS, fulfills a decade-long dream to stage Gordon Dahlquist's scabrous satire.

Onstage

Sound! Lights! Survival! It’s ‘Cambodian Rock Band’

February 22, 2023

Lauren Yee's play at Berkeley Rep uses Dengue Fever's music to tell a story of terror, resilience, and justice.

Onstage

‘We’re telling our fathers’ stories’: Luis Alfaro’s ‘The Travelers’ comes to Magic Theatre

February 14, 2023

Director Catherine Castellanos on new Campo Santo play, which revolves around a Central Valley seminary

Emily Wilson

Binding craft to concept at Center for the Book, from Yoko Ono to Reginald Walker

Munch’s ‘Madonna’ and a Marina Abramović rose quartz dragon on which to rest

‘What These Walls Won’t Hold’ is incarcerated people’s drive to create

With joy and uplift, COLORFORMS leaps from screen to stage at SF Ballet

Glitter-strewn resistance: Amalia Mesa-Bains talks beauty

In ‘Sobremesa,’ a chain of artists serves up china dumplings, doughy ducks, plum branches

Illuminating an Indigenous future through Mayan cosmology and ancestral weaving

Erin Merritt stirs domestic terrorism, violent rhetoric—and humor!—into ‘Tea Party’

Sound! Lights! Survival! It’s ‘Cambodian Rock Band’

‘We’re telling our fathers’ stories’: Luis Alfaro’s ‘The Travelers’ comes to Magic Theatre

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