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.
San Francisco
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.
Art
Jess, a West Coast Visionary
It is clear to me now that seeing Jess's art was the beginning of my awareness that there was a multitude of what John Ashbery called “other traditions.”
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
The Relationship Between Landscape and Home for Palestinian Artists
Preoccupations: Palestinian Landscapes marshals seven artists’ passionate interpretations of Palestine.
In Brief
San Francisco Will Raise Maya Angelou Sculpture
Only two of the city's 87 public sculptures depict historical women. The Angelou monument will help begin to shift that balance.
Art
The Future of Conceptual, Immersive Art Hasn't Quite Arrived
The Gray Area Festival's attractions like Inferno and the ISM Hexadome drew upon images of hell and Thom Yorke to illustrate its vision of audience-participatory art, but the festival itself demonstrated that technology alone is not enough.
Art
A Caribbean Present Steeped in a Colonial Past
In Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox, ten artists explore the implications of colonialism's violent legacy.
Interview
Mediating the Consequences of a Former Filipino Dictator
Pio Abad’s exhibition, Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite offers sculptures that monumentalize the political consequences of Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship in the Philippines.
Art
Suzanne Lacy's Powerful Legacy of Feminist Collaboration
What struck me most in moving through the arc of Lacy’s career is what varied and thoughtful work she’s produced decade after decade, no doubt the result of her preference for collaboration.
In Brief
ACLU Says Activist Was Detained After Reciting Poem Against US Immigration Policy
José Bello was arrested less than 36 hours after criticizing the immigration enforcement and detention practices of ICE in a poem titled "Dear America." His bond is set at $50,000.