Natalia Robyns-Kresich

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Natalia Kresich was born and raised in San Francisco. She has been writing about local issues for 48 Hills for several years.

Art Review

Ode to Chicana rasquachismo: a half century of Amalia Mesa-Baines

April 4, 2023

Her work bustling with everyday objects and memories, the artist's BAMPFA retrospective offers welcome, folkloric departure.

Art

Amid political backlash, ‘Undoing Time’ confronts legacy of carceral system

December 1, 2022

Berkeley Art Museum taps 12 artists to consider the foundational roots and effects of confinement in moving show.

Art

SF’s Carlos Villa becomes first Filipino American honored by a major museum retrospective

August 31, 2022

But sadly—for San Francisco—his multi-site show is missing an important component.

Arts + Culture

Artist Emmy Lou Packard shines in overdue expo—but she never left SF walls

August 17, 2022

She apprenticed with Diego Rivera, and mentored the Mission's mural movement.

Art

The revolutionary realism of Alice Neel

June 17, 2022

The painter's extraordinary work, now at the DeYoung, proves that socially engaged art is anything but boring and irrelevant.

Art

Wild herbs stir up mechanisms of oppression in ‘Foragers’

January 17, 2022

Jumana Manna's video installation at Berkeley Art Museum follow Palestinians as they gather indigenous plants—an illegal occupation.

Art

A tricky proposition: 20 years of feminist art on display in ‘New Time’

October 31, 2021

Expansive show at BAMPFA holds real brilliance, though falters in its politically pluralistic approach

Housing

Robots in the crash pad: The twisted takeover of the Red Victorian Hotel

September 21, 2021

How Haight Ashbury countercultural ideals were distorted by a tech "co-living" experiment, and a trans performance community was displaced.

Homelessness

Inside the SIP hotels saga

March 15, 2021

How activists and some supes forced the city to put homeless people in hotel rooms.

Housing

Supes approve rent control for Midtown

October 7, 2020

After a six-year struggle, tenants win housing stability.