SFAI Archives - 48 hills

Movies

Ficks’ Picks: Dive into the experimental bounty of CROSSROADS 2024

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - August 28, 2024

SF Cinematheque's annual celebration of artful shorts features 68 filmmakers from 19 countries. Here's our top 10 guide.

Art Review

Pancakes, party favors, and animatronic wolves? ‘Fantastico’!

Ava Morton - June 28, 2024

At Casemore Gallery, Lindsey White uses sparkling humor and magic to plumb deeper issues of local artmaking.

Art

In a globalized art world, why does SF need its own fairs? The answer lies in FOG

Emily Wilson - January 21, 2024

Smaller galleries like Jonathan Carver Moore, Schlomer Haus, CULT Aimee Friberg welcomed far-flung visitors to local excellence

Environment

The tragic toxic legacy of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard

Tom Molanphy - March 1, 2023

Aided by a USC fellowship, reporter Tom Molanphy and 48hills dug into the overwhelming history of data concerning the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, which...

Art

‘Wallflowers with deep roots’: Taking in 2022’s vibrant, community-driven art scene

Genevieve Quick and Ava Morton - January 6, 2023

As artists continue to face huge hurdles to survive, our critics delve into how they review (and practice) art now.

Art

SF’s Carlos Villa becomes first Filipino American honored by a major museum retrospective

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - August 31, 2022

But sadly—for San Francisco—his multi-site show is missing an important component.

Art Review

SFAI faculty member Carlos Villa’s hybrid legacy honored in two shows

Genevieve Quick - August 18, 2022

Luscious cloaks and tributes to SoMa's I-Hotel assert mystical pageantry of unsung histories.

Art

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

Art

Review: Eerily empty Art Institute campus stars in Lindsey White’s ‘What? Is? Art?’

Genevieve Quick - May 20, 2021

The photographer known for her wry eye gets personal, documenting her community's precarious traces

Creativity Explored branches out with ‘Of here from there’ exhibition

Emily Wilson - March 4, 2020

The first time artist Ana Teresa Fernández entered the Creativity Explored studio, she says she fell in love with the space. “It’s like what...

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