SFMOMA Archives - 48 hills

Art Review

Artist, mother, wife, and cat: SFMOMA Joan Brown retrospective celebrates a shapeshifter

Genevieve Quick - November 24, 2022

Beginning within the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Brown's career defies simple classification.

Arts + Culture

Artist Emmy Lou Packard shines in overdue expo—but she never left SF walls

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - August 17, 2022

She apprenticed with Diego Rivera, and mentored the Mission's mural movement.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Laborfest in full swing, Foodwise dines out, more

Marke B. - July 7, 2022

Danceworks, Pod Blotz, Xiu Xiu, Depeche Mode tribute, Jim Henson's commercials, other great events. Plus: Diego Rivera is coming

Onstage

Pop-Up Magazine springs back onstage, with one of Oakland’s best young artists

Marke B. - May 19, 2022

Adrian L. Burrell taps deep levels of Oakland family history at the live storytelling spectacle (and discovers a surprise Beyonce connection)

Movies

Greta Snider’s experimental films pack a punk punch at the Roxie

tamara suarez porras - March 18, 2022

16mm autoethnographies, found footage essays, materialist inventions, and recent projects focusing on human rights hit the screen

Art

The bright, strong magic of Joan Mitchell

Emily Wilson - January 3, 2022

A grand SFMOMA retrospective—ending soon—brings all the brilliance and range of the abstract painter to the fore.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: An 11/250th of Beethoven, a Skybridge arts fest…

Marke B. - October 5, 2021

Monster Drawing Rally, Spanking Machine, SFMOMA Free Thursdays, Honey Dijon, Balkan Bump, more great events.

Art

In Beryl Landau’s paintings, a bird’s-eye view of SF’s changing cityscape

Mary Corbin - September 28, 2021

“I am especially interested in the juxtaposition of technology against nature and the constant changes within an urban environment.”

Art

Local artists remix Diego Rivera’s ‘Pan American Unity’ mural at SFMOMA

Alan Chazaro - August 25, 2021

In Mini Mural Festival, three diverse arts orgs bring cultural visions, music, and more to celebrate epic work

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: Perilous quests in ‘The Green Knight’ and ‘Stillwater’

Dennis Harvey - August 2, 2021

Plus: complex Son of Monarchs, redemptive Fireboys, and a beautiful, bummer Casanova

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