Visual Arts Archives

Art

The phenomenal triumph of Lava Thomas

Lou Fancher - October 29, 2024

Her Maya Angelou monument weathered very public storms, now it reflects the great author's 'peace amidst adversity.'

Art

In John DiPaolo’s knockout abstractions, wandering thoughts and sudden perceptions

DeWitt Chen - May 20, 2024

“There is no formula, no method, just a compulsion to experiment," says the painter, now showing at Dolby Chadwick.

Art

Tabitha Soren, beloved former MTV News reporter, on life as a Bay Area photographer

Mary Corbin - February 29, 2024

Motherhood has changed things for the award-winning journalist, who is now taking things a frame at a time.

Art

Elizabeth Barlow paints ‘the fierce life force in even the tiniest flower’

Mary Corbin - January 31, 2024

Potent symbols—and beauty with a capital B—in the artist's vivid 'Flora Portraits.'

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Civic Center to be flooded with drag queens, fabulously

Marke B. - October 12, 2023

Join 'The Show.' Plus: How Weird, Bearrison, APAture, Kal Penn, Dreamers' Circus, 111 Minna turns 30, more to do

Music

Kronos Fest still waves in the new, with meta needle drops and play-along apps

Lou Fancher - June 19, 2023

Its '50 for the Future' project complete, Kronos Quartet leaps onward with three days of cutting-edge music

Art

Painter Cherisse Alcantara captures the vibrant SOMA Pilipinas Cultural District

Mary Corbin - December 11, 2022

The artist's most recent series explores the historic area's urban parks and gardens in vivid color

Culture

Win a pass to How Weird Street Faire!

48 Hills - September 3, 2021

The 22nd annual phenomenon is celebrating Sun/12 with eight music stages, and tons of art and entertainment.

Movies

From ‘Edge of Seventeen’ to ‘Swan Song,’ a queer director salutes Sandusky

Joshua Rotter - August 4, 2021

Rounding out a trilogy of semi-autobiographical Ohio tales, Todd Stephens' latest memorializes a senior drag legend.

Art

‘I don’t like rules’: Eddie Colla’s bold statements leap off walls

Mary Corbin - July 20, 2021

The East Oakland painter on Leo Sayer, the importance of flossing, and the power of art to challenge the world.

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