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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...

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...

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