Announcement
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces an Open Call for Artists and Curators
The application process is now open for curatorial and public art to be presented at YBCA in San Francisco. Applications are due by October 20, 2019.
San Francisco
News
Fight Over Divisive Mural Escalates as George Washington High School Alumni File Lawsuit
Recently, the school board voted to conceal Victor Arnautoff’s “The Life of George Washington,” which critics call a racist depiction of Native Americans and enslaved people.
Art
Inmates Annotate an Archive of Prison Photos With Their Own Stories
The results are arresting, as the writers, who are also men in prison, make anonymous images their own, speaking out of their own experiences, bringing insights and empathy that no outside critic or art historian could.
Art
Photography From Africa that Refuses Easy Narratives
Africa State of Mind does not pander to expectations audiences might have or desire of African artists, instead allowing for these artists from 11 different countries to devise their own frameworks for understanding the places they are from.
Art
The Astonishing Discovery of an Artist’s 9,200 Portraits of an Alternate Queer Self
The previously unknown Polaroids of April Dawn Alison were not just snatched from the jaws of oblivion, but are now in an esteemed museum collection.
Art
“It’s a Gold Rush Town”: How Artists Survive in San Francisco
Hyperallergic talks to various artists in the Bay Area about how they've hung on through years of economic turmoil.
Art
Kiss, Hug, or Get Lost in Olafur Eliasson’s Giant Reflective Spheres
Eliasson suggested that it was just fine for people to touch his artwork. He even said it would be great if anyone wanted to kiss or hug the spheres.
Announcement
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Presents The Body Electric
The West Coast debut of this exhibition by an intergenerational and international group of artists explores technology's impact on our collective understanding of the body and sense of self. On view through January 26, 2020.
Art
Looking at the Legacy of Jess in California
An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art positions the artist known as Jess as the center of a creative nexus, bringing together his works with a smattering of California artists.
Art
Rubens’s Exciting, Upsetting, and Shockingly Current Paintings
Much of Rubens’s Baroque bravura feels timely in its grappling with violence, terror, power, sex, and coercion.
Art
Unseen, an Audio Comic Especially Designed for the Blind
The protagonist of Unseen, like its creator, is blind. The characters she fights often underestimate her because of her disability — and that’s a big mistake.
Announcement
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture Presents an Artistic, Performance-Filled Roller Rink
This installation actions vent ascending frequencies from creative collective assume vivid astro, features outdoor roller-skating, DJ sets, and special programming from September 13–October 6, 2019.