Tag: SFMOMA
With colorful street art, 100 Days of Action represents essential workers
When artist Christo Oropeza was asked to create a painting for a storefront as part of Art for Essential Workers (a program by local artist collective 100 Days of Action), he first...
Screen Grabs: Black history and protest films to stream now
As public outrage towards police violence against the Black community (like the gun control movement) has too often seemed to wane in the Trump era, drowned out by his...
Screen Grabs: Horse Feathers!—and even more great comedy streaming
Before winding up, for the time being at least, our survey of cinematic comedies that will lighten up your house arrest sojourn (part one here and part two here),...
‘Change the dynamics’: Dawoud Bey on photography, place, and history
On February 15, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened An American Project, a retrospective, of the work of multi-award-winning photographer and teacher Dawoud Bey. The show was...
Screen Grabs: New year, death row
January is generally considered a dumping ground for unloved movies, squeezed in to fill any space remaining by Christmas and awards-bait major releases still playing out. Certainly this week’s...
Screen Grabs: Monsters (and wonders) of history awaken
The holiday season tends to induce nostalgia, and while Hollywood is always very interested in directing your leisure dollars towards big new commercial movies, sometimes you feel like watching...
Screen Grabs: French noir to vintage punk, a week of retro gems
Considering all the odds against it—real estate/rent issues, changing audiences, ever-more home viewing options—it’s pretty amazing that San Francisco still has any arthouse scene at all, let alone a...
So many spooky Halloween movies!
As Halloween approaches, some people ready their “sexy” costumes and gear up to chest-heave cocktails onto the lap of their fellow ex-frat bros and/or Uber driver. Some wax nostalgic...
‘Disasterama!’ chronicles SF’s wild, lost queer underground
A certain queer generation has come of memoir age—which is a bit bracing (read: terrifying) for those of us who survived the '80s and '90s, and still consider ourselves...
Arts Forecast: El Rio saved, Litquake aquiver, Open Studios opens….
ARTS FORECAST File under: more of this please! According to the Bay Area Reporter, the buildings housing legendary Latinx queer bar El Rio have been acquired by the Mission...
