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.

Art

Feeling out ‘What’s that about’ with curator Saif Azzuz

August 7, 2023

From Coyote tales to AstroTurf, show at Anthony Meier aims to build community rather than impose meaning

Art

Black queer art made visible: Speaking with gallerist Jonathan Carver Moore

July 31, 2023

'The element of surprise and learning about what's behind the painting, the photograph, the sculpture—I love that.'

Lit

In ‘Pedro & Daniel’ and ‘Gordo,’ cracking open the young queer Mexican American experience

July 4, 2023

Two books set in the '70s detail the lives of young boys—two brothers and a farmworkers' son—vividly and loving

Art

Taravat Talepasand will not be silenced

June 24, 2023

She's made it through censorship and the Trump administration—and the Iranian American artist is still telling her truth.

Art

“Resting Our Eyes” taps the power of Black women in repose

June 20, 2023

Sadie Barnette, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Lava Thomas, more pay homage to beauty and respite.

Onstage

A ‘Frida y Diego’ opera that ditches clichés (and castanets)

June 13, 2023

'We bring our vision as contemporary Mexican artists and avoid all this noise,' says Lorena Maza of SFO's first production in Spanish

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