Art
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.
San Francisco
Art
A Feminist Workshop on How to Paint Anatomy and Nudes
The class, part of The Feminist School of Painting at KADIST, challenged traditional ideals of beauty.
Interview
A Museum Architect Sees Himself as a Matchmaker Between Artists and Art Lovers
Kulapat Yantrasast, who is designing the expansion for San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, prefers his museum designs to "take a backseat" to the art and visitors.
Art
San Francisco’s New Transit Center Features Public Art by Jenny Holzer, Julie Chang, and Ned Kahn
A new transit center filled with on-site public art opens in San Francisco.
Art
Art Historians Discuss Strategies for Dealing with Work by Abusive Artists
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum invited historians to respond to its Casanova exhibit and share ideas for how to reinterpret and display art history.
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Lawyer Stalls Plan to Remove Statue that San Francisco Officials Consider Racist [UPDATED]
The bronze statue "Early Days" was called "racist and disrespectful" by the San Francisco Arts Commission, which voted unanimously for its removal earlier this month.
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San Francisco Will Remove Statue of White Settlers Towering Over a Native American [UPDATED]
Yesterday, the San Francisco Arts Commission voted unanimously to take down "Early Days," which stands near City Hall.
News
San Francisco Is Counting Its Artists to Address the Problem of Gentrification
In spite of rapidly rising rent prices, San Francisco is second only to New York among US cities with large concentrations of artists.
Art
Bringing the Theatricality of Magic and Comedy to Art
Lindsey White, a recipient of SFMOMA's 2017 SECA Art Award, challenges assumptions and orthodoxies in irreverent photographs, sculptures, and installations.
Art
Sarah Lucas Squashes Rodin’s Idealism
At the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, an exhibition marking the centennial of Rodin's death juxtaposes his work with Sarah Lucas's materially soft but conceptually tough sculptures.
In Brief
Shocking Study of 2,000 Objects in SF’s Mexican Museum Finds 1,917 Are Fake [UPDATED]
The chair of the museum's board of directors fears that as much as half of its 16,500-object collection could turn out to be inauthentic.
Art
The Evolution of Diane Arbus in 35mm
The exhibition diane arbus: in the beginning gathers images the photographer shot between 1956 and 1962, when she started using the distinctive Rolleiflex camera with which she captured her most famous photos.