Art Review

Black quilters of ‘Routed West’ stitched proof of what lasts

Created for warmth during the Second Great Migration or art for art's sake, BAMPFA exhibition's pieces stun.

Art Review Charles Lewis III - June 9, 2025

Mysterious O.G. McRibb maps our technological death wish

Aggressive trickster—shh, it's Scott Hove of Cakeland—exhibits paintings of unstoppable juggernaut.

Art Review DeWitt Cheng - June 2, 2025

Scenes from Naomi Rincón-Gallardo’s radical cuir world-building

Mesoamerican mythologies, ecological processes, and fungi children cavort in Kadist video exhibition.

Art Review Genevieve Quick - May 29, 2025

Isaac Julien’s gorgeous shots reclaim authorship of history

Filmmaker's first major Bay Area exhibition beholds Harlem Renaissance queer culture, James Baldwin, blaxploitation.

Art Review Genevieve Quick - May 8, 2025

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Sandra Yagi’s bewitching ‘The Faerie Realm’ light-heartedly skewers human nature

DeWitt Cheng - April 17, 2025

At Modern Eden, leafy scenes locate the mystery of life via cavorting, skeletal avatars of Death.

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Marc D’Estout’s absurdist ‘domestic objects’ are haikus to the uncanny

DeWitt Cheng - March 12, 2025

Welded and hammered steel forms at Triton Museum dare to avoid anthromorphic—and pandemic—interpretation.

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History of slavery pulled apart, one garment at a time, in ‘The Poetics of Dimensions’

Genevieve Quick - March 5, 2025

At ICA, Larry Ossei-Mensah curates a show whose works prioritize assemblage as a transformative process.

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Heartfelt dispatches from an imaginary Swiss art school

DeWitt Cheng - February 15, 2025

Dan Levenson's 'Artifacts from the SKZ' conjures a movement that might have been, in surprisingly affecting ways.

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Drama Masks: Voices of incarcerated women take center stage at YBCA

Charles Lewis III - February 6, 2025

Art exhibit 'The Only Door I Can Open' and Flyaway Productions' 'I Give You My Sorrows' speak out for prisoners' rights.

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A powerhouse farewell to Pier 24 with ‘Turning the Page’

Bec Imrich - January 14, 2025

Massive photography exhibition space bids adieu with blockbuster show of famed photobooks and their contents.

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From First Lady to farmer, Amy Sherald paints a Black ‘American Sublime’

DeWitt Cheng - January 9, 2025

In a retrospective at SFMOMA, the artist known for her Michelle Obama portrait reaches back through history.

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The ‘Queen of Art Deco’ finally gets her due

DeWitt Cheng - November 13, 2024

In first major US retrospective, de Young's 'Tamara de Lempicka' reveals stunning portraits of Russian aristocrats and lesbian sex workers.

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In ‘Fictions of Presence,’ a View-Master and declassified 9/11 interrogation docs

Genevieve Quick - November 4, 2024

Exploring how humans, machines, and humans aided by machines read differently—poetically and politically—at / (Slash)

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Turbulence of recent past thrums though ‘Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions’

Charles Lewis III - November 2, 2024

KADIST show takes on poignant personal effects of racism, fentanyl, queerphobia—but leaves out pandemic elephant in the room.

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Six local art giants stand ‘In Conversation with the Muse’—beards and all

Bec Imrich - October 9, 2024

In group show by well-known figures at Pt. 2 Gallery, everyday objects become 'not a replica of life but a tool for insight.'

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Art is dead, long live art

Charles Lewis III - September 1, 2024

Decaying works, deceased creatives—in new exhibition, the Berkeley Art Museum imagines itself a columbarium.

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There’s starshine in ‘Nocturnes’—ceramic ruins and oyster reefs, too

Bec Imrich - August 21, 2024

At Personal Space in Vallejo, a stimulating group show reminds that natural materials contain wisdom.

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Young Joon Kwak’s BAMPFA show is a rebellious, sparkling tease

Charles Lewis III - August 19, 2024

Multi-faceted artist works queer South Korean love into resin and rhinestones for MATRIX program.

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‘Beasties’ ventures where the wild hybrids roam

Genevieve Quick - August 6, 2024

Rebecca Camacho Presents show corrals creature creations both meticulously kitschy and ominously mystical.

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Art Review

Black quilters of ‘Routed West’ stitched proof of what lasts

Mysterious O.G. McRibb maps our technological death wish

Scenes from Naomi Rincón-Gallardo’s radical cuir world-building

Isaac Julien’s gorgeous shots reclaim authorship of history

Sandra Yagi’s bewitching ‘The Faerie Realm’ light-heartedly skewers human nature

Marc D’Estout’s absurdist ‘domestic objects’ are haikus to the uncanny

History of slavery pulled apart, one garment at a time, in ‘The Poetics of Dimensions’

Heartfelt dispatches from an imaginary Swiss art school

Drama Masks: Voices of incarcerated women take center stage at YBCA

A powerhouse farewell to Pier 24 with ‘Turning the Page’

From First Lady to farmer, Amy Sherald paints a Black ‘American Sublime’

The ‘Queen of Art Deco’ finally gets her due

In ‘Fictions of Presence,’ a View-Master and declassified 9/11 interrogation docs

Turbulence of recent past thrums though ‘Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions’

Six local art giants stand ‘In Conversation with the Muse’—beards and all

Art is dead, long live art

There’s starshine in ‘Nocturnes’—ceramic ruins and oyster reefs, too

Young Joon Kwak’s BAMPFA show is a rebellious, sparkling tease

‘Beasties’ ventures where the wild hybrids roam

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