Carlie Wilmans, founder of the arts nonprofit 500 Capp Street Foundation, has come under fire after starting proceedings to evict a family from a duplex she owns in the Mission District.
Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson is a radio and print reporter in San Francisco. She has written stories for dozens of media outlets including NPR, Latino USA, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, California Teacher, Oakland Magazine, the Daily Beast, and Truthdig. She also teaches adults working towards high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.
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Translating the Legacy of Ahmad Shamlou, One of Iran’s Greatest Poets
Niloufar Talebi, who knew Shamlou since she was a child, has written a memoir and opera on the poet and how he affected her life.
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The Black Power Movement Gets a Permanent Display at the Oakland Museum
The museum has opened a permanent exhibition about Black activism in the Bay Area, which, contrary to public perception, was not always an accepting, progressive place.
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Formerly Incarcerated Japanese Americans Organize a Protest Against Family Separation at the Border
Satsuki Ina, who contributed familial artifacts to an exhibition on the detention of Japanese Americans, is also organizing a memorial and protest with 60 former incarcerees.
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How the Re-Opening of the Public Domain “Has Allowed Us to Have Our Culture Back”
In 2019, thousands of artworks from 1923 entered the public domain. Speakers from Creative Commons, the Internet Archive, and other places share why this matters.
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A Choreographer Bills His Dances as “Services”
Adam Linder stresses the labor of dance whenever he offers up his “choreographic services” to museums.
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Photos Reveal How San Francisco and LA Dramatically Grew After 1850
An exhibition documents how California and photography grew up together, and how photos influenced the rest of the country’s perception of the state’s two leading cities.
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Artist Installs Bells Throughout Oakland that Detect Air Pollution
Rosten Woo hopes the bells will help create political pressure about air quality in West Oakland, which is circled by freeways and diesel trucks.
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A Feminist Workshop on How to Paint Anatomy and Nudes
The class, part of The Feminist School of Painting at KADIST, challenged traditional ideals of beauty.
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A Museum Architect Sees Himself as a Matchmaker Between Artists and Art Lovers
Kulapat Yantrasast, who is designing the expansion for San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, prefers his museum designs to “take a backseat” to the art and visitors.
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My Session with an Artist Who Helped Me Confront Death
Lindsay Tunkl’s performance series, Parting Practice: Rituals for Endings and Failure, invites participants to practice parting from ambitions, hopes, possessions, friends, family, and your life.
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Photographer Susan Meiselas on the Relationships She’s Built with Her Subjects
Meiselas, whose documentary photography is wide ranging, says the one thing that ties her work together is her “relationships with subjects over time.”
