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Día de los San Franciscanos: Altars return to SOMArts

Caitlin Donohue - October 13, 2021

Beloved performer Per Sia speaks about hosting a Muertos drag show at the yearly exhibition—and what a queen brings to celebrations of resilience.

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Halloween Meltdown host John Waters talks trash

Alex Arabian - October 7, 2021

In a wide-ranging Q&A, the People's Pervert dishes on punk, his San Francisco haunts, Patty Hearst, Johnny Depp, and modern-day censorship.

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Dinosaurs have next in the art of San Francisco painter Michael Kerbow

Mary Corbin - October 1, 2021

The San Francisco painter heralds a metaphoric changing of the guard in his viral series "Late Capitalism"

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Review: Pyramids to Panthers, ‘Afro Hippie’ tracks Black Power through time and space

Genevieve Quick - September 30, 2021

David Huffman locates his Bay Area activist upbringing within the swirling cosmos—an homage to leaders yet to come.

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In Beryl Landau’s paintings, a bird’s-eye view of SF’s changing cityscape

Mary Corbin - September 28, 2021

“I am especially interested in the juxtaposition of technology against nature and the constant changes within an urban environment.”

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‘Experience Leonard Cohen’ offers more than crusty hallelujahs

Daniel Bromfield - September 24, 2021

At the CJM, four artists take impressionistic measures of the late musician behind 'I'm Your Man.'

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Review: Afloat on the Bay, ‘Night Watch’ presented refugees as they are

Genevieve Quick - September 22, 2021

Shimon Attie's quiet and simple videos, shown from a barge, refused to emotionally exploit their participants.

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Chanel Miller, artist and ‘Emily Doe’ in Stanford assault case, speaks at Asian Art Museum

Emily Wilson - September 21, 2021

Writer Esmé Weijun Wang interviews Miller, whose 75-foot mural hangs in the new Wilbur Gallery.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Open Studios 2021, Colson Whitehead, The Residents return…

Marke B. - September 14, 2021

Plus: Cocteaufest, Leather Walk, Judy Collins, Tea Lautrec opening, and more choice events

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In plants and nature, Tom Colcord sees ‘macrocosms in every microcosm’

Mary Corbin - September 13, 2021

The Tournesol Award-winner painter on his practice, his love for Berthe Morisot, and Haruki Murakami's talking cats

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