Art

At the de Young, a vibrant refresher of Indigenous art

New four-gallery "Rooted in Place" displays gorgeous diversity of Native California peoples.

Art Lou Fancher - October 11, 2025

Blues musician Mike Henderson enjoys the ride, right on through to solo art show

At Haines Gallery, Cabin Fever bandmember's multimedia expressions of Black life crackle with humor and insight.

Art Lou Fancher - October 11, 2025

First-ever Robert Crumb biography zaps with iconoclast’s free speech and wild pen

Author Dan Nadel gained intimate access to living legend and comic book peers for 'A Cartoonist's Life.'

Lit Joel Schechter - October 11, 2025

Julio César Morales’ tender work renders the pain of migration

The artist's latest show 'My America' utilizes painting, sculpture, immersive sound installation, and neon to tell 'the story.'

Art Mary Corbin - October 7, 2025

Music

Rock legend Andy Summers takes aim with a different instrument

Joshua Rotter - September 20, 2025

New multimedia tour is 'nothing like what I did in the Police at all,' says guitarist and photographer.

Art

Maya Fuji’s luminous paintings conjure ‘uncanny coexistence’ with spiritual realm

Mary Corbin - September 19, 2025

'I like to show how cultures can sometimes overlap, like decorative nail art,' says Japanese American artist.

Art

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

Race Bannon - September 16, 2025

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

Art

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

Lou Fancher - September 15, 2025

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

Art

Painter Luis Felipe Chávez contemplates the monuments immigrants carry within

Emily Wilson - September 15, 2025

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

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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Studio Fallout

Dorothy O'Donnell - September 15, 2025

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

Art

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.

Best of the Bay

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

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.

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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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Art

At the de Young, a vibrant refresher of Indigenous art

Blues musician Mike Henderson enjoys the ride, right on through to solo art show

First-ever Robert Crumb biography zaps with iconoclast’s free speech and wild pen

Julio César Morales’ tender work renders the pain of migration

Rock legend Andy Summers takes aim with a different instrument

Maya Fuji’s luminous paintings conjure ‘uncanny coexistence’ with spiritual realm

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’

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