Art

Mel Odom’s kaleidoscopic queer eye drew stunning art through AIDS

New short film aims to capture turbulent milieu and indelible imagery of New York artist and dollmaker.

Art Race Bannon - September 16, 2025

After 51 years of welcoming visitors in, SF Open Studios is gazing outwards

Executive director Shamsher Virk continues to be 'incredibly impressed' by artists in a boom-and-bust creative city.

Art Lou Fancher - September 15, 2025

Painter Luis Felipe Chávez contemplates the monuments immigrants carry within

On the eve of Mexican Independence Day, Jalisco-raised artist presents binational views of freedom.

Art Emily Wilson - September 15, 2025

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Studio Fallout

A quiet North Beach alley leads down to the basement retail lair of a punk-surrealist stalwart and his talented friends.

Arts + Culture Dorothy O'Donnell - September 15, 2025

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

Aimée Ts'ao - September 7, 2025

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

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Marke B. - September 1, 2025

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

Art

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

Mary Corbin - September 1, 2025

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

Art

Laura Malone paints a connective language of ’embodiment’

Mary Corbin - August 22, 2025

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

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.

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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.

Art

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.'

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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.

Art

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.

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Art

Mel Odom’s kaleidoscopic queer eye drew stunning art through AIDS

After 51 years of welcoming visitors in, SF Open Studios is gazing outwards

Painter Luis Felipe Chávez contemplates the monuments immigrants carry within

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Studio Fallout

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

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