Interview
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."
Emily Wilson
Interview
John Akomfrah Discusses Channeling J.M.W. Turner and Disasters at Sea
“The Deluge,” a monumental Turner painting showing a Biblical flood, is currently paired with Akomfrah’s “Vertigo Sea” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Art
Art Historians Discuss Strategies for Dealing with Work by Abusive Artists
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum invited historians to respond to its Casanova exhibit and share ideas for how to reinterpret and display art history.
Art
A New Museum Chronicles Niagara Falls’ Pivotal Role in the Underground Railroad
The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center tells the stories of those who sought freedom — and those who helped them get there.
Art
Searching for the Roots of Empathy in Rituals of Care
In Kerry Tribe's video we see both actors playing patients and medical students acting as though they were doctors, but the aim is for something real: empathy.
Interview
How a Blind Professor Is Helping Other Sight-Impaired Museum Visitors Experience Art
Most recently, Georgina Kleege led tours at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, where visitors handled materials that artists had used in their work.
Interview
The Chinese Exclusion Act and the “Bone Boxes” that Carried Immigrants Home
In Requiem, Summer Mei-Ling Lee remembers the hospital that shipped thousands of boxes full of bones from the US to China.
Interview
Julie Mehretu Talks Music, Manifest Destiny, and Her Massive Mural for SFMOMA
Reflecting on “HOWL, eon (I, II),” her new commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Julie Mehretu talks about working at a huge scale, how live music affects her process, and how the 2016 election impacted her work.
Interview
RZA and Mustafa Shaikh on the Asian Art that Inspired Their Clothing Line
Last week, RZA and Mustafa Shaikh celebrated the fall line of their fashion label 36 Chambers at the Asian Art Museum, where they saw an exhibition that influenced their designs.
Art
Degas and His Fascination with 19th-Century Hat Culture
The exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum includes paintings by Impressionists, along with period hats and bonnets embellished with silk flowers, ribbons, plumes, and feathers.
Art
An Artist Reanimates the Sounds and Signs of the Persian Gulf War
SAN FRANCISCO — Memory has always fascinated Hayv Kahraman, and she looks for ways to explore it in her art.
Art
Hanging 19th-Century Japanese and Western Masters Side by Side
SAN FRANCISCO — Claude Monet owned more than 200 Japanese prints and once told a critic, “If you insist on forcing me into an affiliation with anyone else ... then compare me with the old Japanese masters; their exquisite taste has always delighted me.”