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

From casting director to portraitist: Jiab Prachakul finds spirit beneath surface

November 14, 2023

Scenes of family ties and bar flies populate walls in new show 'Simplicity/Complexity' at Micki Meng.

Dance

How to tell our stories of the last three years? Dance ‘In the Presence of Absence’

November 8, 2023

For Deborah Slater, it took a profound collaboration with community to encompass the vast experience of the pandemic

Art

Arleene Correa Valencia’s luminous art reflects family strains of Mexican migration

October 30, 2023

'Naces Así, Naces Prieto. No Naces Blanco' at Catharine Clark includes cross-border, father-daughter letters of love

Art

In Justin Yoon’s art, melancholy queer nostalgia sports gleaming blue pecs

October 18, 2023

A world where martinis, romance, and cigarettes in the movie theater rule.

Dance

The Town blooms in Misty Copeland and Leyla Fayyaz’s dance film ‘Flower’

September 20, 2023

Produced by Nelson George, the short feature celebrates organized resistance in the face of community displacement.

Art

Wall-to-wall de Young Open offers up Bay’s creative bounty—and supports artists, too

August 30, 2023

More than 7,000 artists applied for this year's edition. What trends do jurors see in their work?

Onstage

At Fringe Fest, a tale of bullied young immigrants ‘Dancing Home’

August 10, 2023

Dyana Díaz's play was inspired by a children's book—and her own experience at the San Francisco Youth Theatre

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