Hyperallergic talks to various artists in the Bay Area about how they’ve hung on through years of economic turmoil.
Oakland
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Verdict in Oakland Ghost Ship Fire Trial Angers Victim Families
Almost three years after a fire at the Oakland DIY art space killed 36 people, jurors acquitted the space’s creative director of involuntary manslaughter but remained hung on the case of the warehouse’s master tenant.
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Wrapped in the Spirit of Transformation
Through site-specific installations, Basil Kincaid’s “Shamans Death” utilizes textiles to ponder metamorphosis.
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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Dani Lopez Reaches Back in Time With Her Work
LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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Constance Hockaday and Cate White Embrace Vulnerability, Anxiety as Strategies for Survival
Work they developed for the 2019 Art+Process+Ideas artist residency program is on view from June 23 – September 1 at Mills College Art Museum.
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Spotlighting Lesbian Artists as Central Players in California’s Queer History
Lesbian contributions to gay life and liberation have long been overshadowed, including in the art world.
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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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Mills College Art Museum Presents Tree Talk by María Elena González
For her solo exhibition Tree Talk, María Elena González reconceives birch bark as music scores.
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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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Two Ghost Ship Organizers Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter for Fire
The warehouse’s property manager and creative director each face up to 39 years in prison.
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After the Ghost Ship Tragedy, Bay Area Artists Fear Crackdown on DIY Spaces
The deadly fire at the Oakland art space earlier this month has brought intensified scrutiny to live-work warehouse complexes, many of which are illegal or not up to code.
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Who Profits from Waste? A Tale of Two Bay Area Cities
In San Francisco, artists in residence at the city dump are valorized for their work. In West Oakland, homeless people who rely on independent recycling centers are criminalized.
