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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.

Mysterious O.G. McRibb maps our technological death wish

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

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

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

Isaac Julien’s gorgeous shots reclaim authorship of history

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heartfelt dispatches from an imaginary Swiss art school

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

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

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’

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

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

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

The ‘Queen of Art Deco’ finally gets her due

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is dead, long live art

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

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

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

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

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

‘Beasties’ ventures where the wild hybrids roam

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

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