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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.
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Mysterious O.G. McRibb maps our technological death wish

Aggressive trickster—shh, it's Scott Hove of Cakeland—exhibits paintings of unstoppable juggernaut.
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Scenes from Naomi Rincón-Gallardo’s radical cuir world-building

Mesoamerican mythologies, ecological processes, and fungi children cavort in Kadist video exhibition.
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Isaac Julien’s gorgeous shots reclaim authorship of history

Filmmaker's first major Bay Area exhibition beholds Harlem Renaissance queer culture, James Baldwin, blaxploitation.
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Sandra Yagi’s bewitching ‘The Faerie Realm’ light-heartedly skewers human nature

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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’

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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’

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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 -
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

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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

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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

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