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Arts + Culture

Painter’s ball: Unity-minded Bay Area Mural Project hosts group’s first gala

Alan Chazaro - March 25, 2022

Celebrating "each-one-teach-one Bay Area flavor" at a sold-out California Ballroom in downtown Oakland.

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‘We knew we would bring the art’: Expo sounds alarm to reunite separated families

Emily Wilson - March 24, 2022

Galería de la Raza, YBCA, and other community organizations team up on compelling "Pedagogy of Hope"

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Review: With crunch and chirp, ‘Castings’ calls up ancestral muscle memories

Ava Morton - March 24, 2022

Dionne Lee's show at Et al. probes the gravity of inheritance—and the sweet, simple joy of letting something go.

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Get wavey: Casey Gray’s work vibrates with the simple pleasures of being

Mary Corbin - March 23, 2022

The skateboarder and new dad's aerosol paintings and wood sculptures help makes sense of everyday overload.

Movies

Greta Snider’s experimental films pack a punk punch at the Roxie

tamara suarez porras - March 18, 2022

16mm autoethnographies, found footage essays, materialist inventions, and recent projects focusing on human rights hit the screen

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Review: In ‘Here Be Dragons,’ vibrant windows onto colonial economies

tamara suarez porras - March 13, 2022

Sula Bermúdez-Silverman embeds indigenous commodities into transparent lunettes at Friends Indeed gallery.

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Within wood panels, Marsha Balian weaves intimate found-object tales

Mary Corbin - March 9, 2022

The "hunter-gatherer" artist scours for materials like children's blocks and antique household fixtures to create complex stories.

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Intricate illustrator Casey Cripe’s is a very open studio

Mary Corbin - March 1, 2022

The Bay-born artist works on encyclopedic information visualizations—and welcomes visitors.

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A women’s eye: Academy of Science targets gender issues in wildlife photography industry

Emily Wilson - February 24, 2022

Considerable discounts for women entering annual photo competition is just the beginning.

Lit

How Bay Area graffiti led me to a life of writing

Alan Chazaro - February 23, 2022

From writing on walls to writing in books—and the value of seeing others publicly dream

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