Art

Racial amnesia probed in ‘The Axe: a long line of broken white people’

Alley Wilde's latest performance explores European Indigeneity, violence, paganism at Counterpulse.

Art Aimée Ts'ao - September 7, 2025

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Our 51st installment of the Bay Area classic is 'new and improved' for 2025—and still full of local love.

Best of the Bay Marke B. - September 1, 2025

Bodega Bay quietude, a solitary thrush: Kanna Aoki’s contemplative Bay scenes

Organic and intuitive painter traces inspiration back to childhood fabric store trips with her mother.

Art Mary Corbin - September 1, 2025

Laura Malone paints a connective language of ’embodiment’

The somatic therapist's art comes through listening to the body and reflecting the complexity of human intimacy.

Art Mary Corbin - August 22, 2025

Culture

‘Indigenize SF’ maps well-known street names and statues paying homage to genocide

Herbert F. Mintz II - August 18, 2025

At SFMOMA, an exhibit documents local monuments connected to historic violence against American Indians.

Art

Queer desire, teen crushes push the needle of this quilter

Mary Corbin - August 10, 2025

Greg Climer's intimate, pixelated textiles tap into the "quiet devotion" in history of art dedicated to the male form.

Art

Reviving mid-century wows with ‘Supersonic Modernism’

DeWitt Cheng - August 4, 2025

Painter and graphic artist Michael Murphy's show at Avenue 12 restores local landmarks to their eye-popping selves.

Art

Trash, transmogrified: Recology celebrates 35 years of art spawned by refuse

Emily Wilson - July 31, 2025

'Art/Education/Community' at MSP features grandfather clocks, Vietnamese storefronts, vanitas-style still lifes.

Art Review

Giant steps (and little ones, too) toward reclaiming ‘Black Spaces’

Charles Lewis III - July 21, 2025

OMCA show delves into Black community displacement and repossession history, from bullet-ridden mailbox to Moms for Housing triumph.

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With mixed-media vibrancy, Julia LaChica conjures the collective journey

Mary Corbin - July 15, 2025

'The artists here are not just creating for galleries. They’re creating for movements, for healing, for resistance.'

Art

Merging real and absurd, Tamera Avery’s paintings grapple with the world’s decay

Mary Corbin - July 7, 2025

Large canvases, bold colors, and youth culture's hopeful influence reflect 'the right and wrongness of today.'

Art Review

Kayhan’s revolt against FOMO photography

DeWitt Cheng - June 17, 2025

Iranian scholar's exquisitely rendered tones recalls work of Dutch masters.

Art

Inspired by Sister Corita Kent, Terri Friedman’s meticulous weaves erupt into protest

Mary Corbin - June 16, 2025

Abstraction and the use of words illuminate the products of CCA teacher's looms.

Art Review

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

Charles Lewis III - June 9, 2025

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

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African American Californian history awaits under the Golden Gate Bridge

Tom Molanphy - June 7, 2025

'Black Gold: Stories Untold' tells of those who built our communities, via contemporary tintype and custom table settings.

Arts + Culture

Local arts groups face funding cuts at all levels of government

Caitlin Donohue - June 2, 2025

City appears to have no additional plans to fund SF organizations, as support dwindles in US, state, and city budgets.

Art Review

Mysterious O.G. McRibb maps our technological death wish

DeWitt Cheng - June 2, 2025

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

Art

Pleasure in the accident: Stephen Namara’s new graphic language

Mary Corbin - June 1, 2025

In an intimate interview, longtime creative speaks of delving into the unknown.

Art Review

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

Genevieve Quick - May 29, 2025

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

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Art

Racial amnesia probed in ‘The Axe: a long line of broken white people’

VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

Bodega Bay quietude, a solitary thrush: Kanna Aoki’s contemplative Bay scenes

Laura Malone paints a connective language of ’embodiment’

‘Indigenize SF’ maps well-known street names and statues paying homage to genocide

Queer desire, teen crushes push the needle of this quilter

Reviving mid-century wows with ‘Supersonic Modernism’

Trash, transmogrified: Recology celebrates 35 years of art spawned by refuse

Giant steps (and little ones, too) toward reclaiming ‘Black Spaces’

With mixed-media vibrancy, Julia LaChica conjures the collective journey

Merging real and absurd, Tamera Avery’s paintings grapple with the world’s decay

Kayhan’s revolt against FOMO photography

Inspired by Sister Corita Kent, Terri Friedman’s meticulous weaves erupt into protest

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

African American Californian history awaits under the Golden Gate Bridge

Local arts groups face funding cuts at all levels of government

Mysterious O.G. McRibb maps our technological death wish

Pleasure in the accident: Stephen Namara’s new graphic language

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

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