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Immersive ‘MYR’ puts humans back in our wee place in the cosmos

Joshua Rotter - July 27, 2022

Aspirational cephalopods, verdant curtains, a custom-made love virus—all poking holes in the paradigm of human exceptionalism

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Look again: Rebekah Goldstein’s colorful shaped canvases hold sincere complexity

Mary Corbin - July 20, 2022

The Bayview painter works intuitively: “I’m so curious to see what the final image will look like, I want to surprise myself”

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Enter Aimée Beaubien’s delightfully messy, exuberant ‘Matter in the Hothouse’

Genevieve Quick - July 6, 2022

At SF Camerawork, the artist weaves and transforms her photographs into an immersive, otherworldly garden

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David Johnson’s exhilarating photographs capture transformative decades in SF

Emily Wilson - June 22, 2022

'That was my goal to do that, and it happened. God was reading my mind,' says the 95-year-old, with a 1945-1965 show at City Hall

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Painter Brett Amory’s shadowy subjects are engulfed in the flow of life

Mary Corbin - June 22, 2022

Epic 20-year series 'Waiting' has captured the intangible in the banal; now the Oakland artist is looking toward what's next

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The revolutionary realism of Alice Neel

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - June 17, 2022

The painter's extraordinary work, now at the DeYoung, proves that socially engaged art is anything but boring and irrelevant.

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This community-minded Bay platform is giving Black creatives tools to thrive

Emily Wilson - June 15, 2022

Artist as First Responder links food justice emcees and performance artists to much-needed community—plus health benefits, hello.

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Oakland’s Heidi Brueckner turns COVID detritus into quirky, assertive art

Mary Corbin - June 8, 2022

Oil paints were joined by banned paper bags and bubble-wrap-filled mailers in the creative's pandemic dark days

Onstage

85-minute lipsync becomes theater star’s joy in ‘Dana H.’

Lou Fancher - June 1, 2022

Jordan Baker speaks to the rigor involved in portraying the true-life tale of a chaplain counselor's five-month abduction.

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Neon pop, watercolor superstars: Kelly Inouye’s ‘MTV Generation’ paints a cultural moment

Emily Wilson - May 27, 2022

Gender fluidity, sexual politics, racial struggle, media power are encapsulated in the artist's gorgeous works. Plus, Boy George!

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