Stories about Visual Art
Cartoonist Tanna Tucker creates works of art to celebrate voices of incarcerated kids
Last May, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a plan to close California’s state-run youth prisons, an initiative that has since been stalled. But San Francisco...
Aquarium vibes on Folsom: Inkletterman, others beautify shuttered storefronts
"It was perfect timing as I was looking for an artist to do the work, knowing the ugliness that boarded-up storefronts have created all...
Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)
As we move farther toward festival season, it's really dawning that our hugest events will take place on our screens. It's not like we...
Arts Forecast: Apocalypse… but make it fashion!
The name of this column, "Arts Forecast," has suddenly taken on an ominous tone in this moment of cancellations and uncertainty. While we are...
Arts Forecast: And here’s the real kicker…
ARTS FORECAST The Stomp tour stomped into town for a very brief visit at ACT last weekend (why, when it could stay so much longer?)—and the...
Arts Forecast: Day of the Dead in the City of Souls
Ready to shed the rotting pumpkin skin of Halloween and sniff the sweet spice of the afterlife? OK that question is a lot, but...
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...
People in cages, Earth under attack in occupied colonial land
"I’m not sure where they are taking us, but I am praying it is safe.”
Marta sat in the back of the Greyhound bus near...
Pride time: 6 quick picks at the National Queer Arts Festival
Despite the tea on Twitter, Pride month isn’t just about the continued corporate cashing-in on on-normative identity disguised as celebratory hedonism. Case in point:...
Arts Forecast: Open up your world with the SF International Arts Festival
ARTS FORECAST Sure you're broke — so let the artists from Hong Kong, Ireland, and the Czech Republic come to you? Such is the...