Art
Rethinking the Physical Limits of Photography
A dual exhibition of works by Jennifer Brandon and Andréanne Michon destabilizes comfortable perceptions of the photographic medium, its physical limits, and relationship to time.
San Francisco
In Brief
This Summer, Public Benefits Recipients Can Visit San Francisco Museums for Free
From June 1 to September 2, San Francisco residents who are EBT or Medi-Cal cardholders will receive free admission to over 15 of the city's museums and cultural institutions.
Art
A Nonjudgmental Look at Our Impulse to Share Images
Although social media has amped up the sharing of photos, the urge behind it is nothing new.
News
Arts Entrepreneur Is Evicting Longtime Residents to Create Artist Housing in San Francisco
Carlie Wilmans, founder of the arts nonprofit 500 Capp Street Foundation, has come under fire after starting proceedings to evict a family from a duplex she owns in the Mission District.
Art
Translating the Legacy of Ahmad Shamlou, One of Iran’s Greatest Poets
Niloufar Talebi, who knew Shamlou since she was a child, has written a memoir and opera on the poet and how he affected her life.
Art
Two Queer Artists Recreate San Francisco’s Shuttered Dyke Bars
To Know Herself at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts honors these bars as spaces in which community connections start, and where love grows.
Comics
The Once-Mystical Energy of San Francisco’s Art and Poetry Scene
Revisiting the work of Jess, Robert Duncan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who just turned 100 years old.
Film
The Afghan Films Left Unfinished Under Communist Rule
The reels for the aborted film projects had been kept in the archives of Afghan Film, which director Mariam Ghani mined for her new movie What We Left Unfinished.
News
Fraud Case Against Academy of Art University in San Francisco Will Proceed
After a decade of judicial stalls, the $450 million case against one of the nation's largest for-profit art schools must either settle or go to trial.
Announcement
Maya Stovall Opens Under New Ownership at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
Under New Ownership will be on view from March 29 to May 5 with a newly commissioned performance by artist and anthropologist Maya Stovall on May 3.
Art
Formerly Incarcerated Japanese Americans Organize a Protest Against Family Separation at the Border
Satsuki Ina, who contributed familial artifacts to an exhibition on the detention of Japanese Americans, is also organizing a memorial and protest with 60 former incarcerees.
Art
When Vija Celmins Holds the Shifting World Still
Celmins's images of oceans and galaxies are powerfully personal and intimate, even if they are mysteriously deserted and distant.