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‘Clay is right now!’ Towering ceramic artist Viola Frey is celebrated anew

Lou Fancher - February 18, 2025

With show at pt. 2 and new book published by her professional archives, late creator's influence comes to fore.

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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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Chelsea Ryoko Wong cultivates gratitude by capturing Bay Area life

Mary Corbin - February 13, 2025

Intergenerational bustle of Grant Street, easeful river days flood the Mission artist's luminous canvases.

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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.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: New folk opera swoops in on tale of Fruitvale falcons

Marke B. - February 5, 2025

Flight Lessons' scores a peregrine pair. Plus: Dilla Day, M Lamar, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Poolside, Bedouin, more to do

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She’s painted SF’s architectural icons. Now it’s her ancestral country’s turn

Dorothy Odonnell - February 3, 2025

Patricia Araujo turns her eye from familiar SoMa to the colorful buildings of Bogotá, Colombia.

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Friends and family power the poise on Tyler Willis’ photorealistic canvases

Mary Corbin - January 28, 2025

Local Brazilian American artist invites viewers' takes on his vibrant and personal oil paintings.

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Native California, captured collaboratively in ‘Born of the Bear Dance’

Emily Wilson - January 27, 2025

Exhibition of photographer Dustin Aguilar's reciprocal, masterful shots was mounted with his family's help.

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Studs and spikes and everything nice: Punk Majesty’s tribute to Leee Black Childers

Joshua Rotter - January 27, 2025

Photographer's 1970s portraits of rock royalty from Debbie Harry to Iggy Pop strike chords.

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FOG art fair elevates artists in triumph—and tragedy

Emily Wilson - January 24, 2025

At huge annual show, galleries pump bright new stars, including one who lost his home and studio in the Pacific Palisades fire.

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