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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...

Art

Electrifying art of Black Power in ‘Soul of a Nation’

Emily Wilson - February 18, 2020

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983 was organized by London’s Tate Museum and traveled to Arkansas, New York,...

Movies

Christopher Coppola finally finishes his ‘Macbeth’

Joshua Rotter - December 11, 2019

Filmmaker and educator Christopher Coppola believes in completing every project that he undertakes. The Associate Professor of Film and Film Department Chair at San...

Arts + Culture

Life before dot-com: Two exhibitions explore the not-so-distant past of SF

Dennis Harvey - November 26, 2019

San Francisco has tended to be defined by its high profile cultural moments and movements, from the libertine Barbary Coast era to the Beats,...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: El Rio saved, Litquake aquiver, Open Studios opens….

Marke B. - October 10, 2019

ARTS FORECAST File under: more of this please! According to the Bay Area Reporter, the buildings housing legendary Latinx queer bar El Rio have...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A wave of women behind the camera

Dennis Harvey - July 10, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Though some aspects of filmmaking have been edging slowly towards gender equity for a while, there’s no question that the #MeToo movement...

Arts + Culture

Black Panthers, today: A 1968 photo series exploring the activists’ humanity finds significance in 2019

Caitlin Donohue - January 18, 2019

How is the humanity of activists obscured to discredit their movement? San Francisco Art Institute explores the question in “Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics &...

Photographer Wesaam Al-Badry: from ‘Contemporary Muslim Fashions’ to Camp Fire

Emily Wilson - December 18, 2018

At the refugee camp where he lived with his family after the Gulf War broke out in their native Iraq, Wesaam Al-Badry thought the...

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