Interview
Isaac Julien Returns to the Cutting Room Floor of History
“I want to call attention to how you look,” the artist known for his multi-channel film installations says of I Dream a World, his first US museum survey to date.
de Young Museum
Art
The Larger-Than-Life Art of Tamara de Lempicka
Marrying synthetic Cubism with 16th-century Italian Mannerism and the sensuality of Jean-Dominique Ingres, the artist's work and life seem made for the silver screen.
Art
An Egalitarian Art Salon at San Francisco's De Young Museum
The De Young Open gathers nearly 900 artworks by artists from the Bay Area, and almost all of them are for sale.
News
San Francisco Museums Acquire Works by 30 Bay Area Artists
Wesaam Al-Badry, Rupy C. Tut, and Chelsea Ryoko Wong are among the artists whose work will be part of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor thanks to a $1M grant.
Opinion
Did Judy Chicago Just Troll Us?
Nowhere in the museums’ advertising blitzkrieg for the performance were we told to bring our wildfire-season masks as well as our covid masks, and covid masks don’t prevent smoke inhalation.
Art
A Final Show Honors the Legacy of a Bay Area Art Legend
Hung Liu, an artist who “defied the stereotype that’s thrust on Asian women.”
Art
Judy Chicago Retrospective Brings the Artist Full Circle
No one can deny that Chicago tackles “big” topics, but paradoxically it’s her most intimate and personal work that comes across as universal.
Art
Tattoo Artist Ed Hardy Enters Museum Doors
“It’s a terrific affirmation, not only for myself, but for a lot of the old bandits and pirates that helped me in the business.”
Art
Wander the Lost City of Teotihuacán in Minecraft
At San Francisco's de Young Museum, an interactive dive into the ruined pre-Columbian metropolis.
Art
Keith Haring and the Artist as Witness
SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of the 2012 documentary How to Survive a Plague, we see a group of ACT UP protestors march on the nation’s capital with the ashes of their dead, a counterprotest to the exhibition of the AIDS Quilt on the Washington Mall.
Art
A West Coast Press Turns 50
SAN FRANCISCO — The main focus of the de Young Museum, located in Golden Gate Park and given a big redesign by architects Herzog and De Meuron in 2005, is American art past and present, encompassing ancient art of all the Americas as well as art of the United States from the colonial era up to today
News
Museum Union Battle Ends in San Francisco
After a year of tense negotiations, a breakdown in negotiations, protests and actions and then more negotiations, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 have settled their dispute! It's a happy day for art news.