Art
The Typography of Change
An exhibition at San Francisco’s Letterform Archive highlights typography’s role in iconic social movements from the 1800s through the present.
San Francisco
Art
Two Artists’ Quest to Free Their Ancestors
Artists Heesoo Kwon and Trina Michelle Robinson make worlds in which their distant relatives can fill the fractures of memory.
Art
Bernice Bing’s Search for a Unified Self
Bing's search was not about style, being fashionable, or fitting in. It was about trying to acknowledge the multiple worlds one inhabits.
Art
Reclining Men Reading Radical Books
Artist Pachi Muruchu merges his radical beliefs and resistance to colonialism with a complex sense of color and the moods it can conjure and inflect.
News
Touring San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum in Sign Language
The museum enlisted the help of Linda Bove, the first Deaf actor to be part of Sesame Street’s recurring cast, to help bring artworks from the collection to a Deaf audience.
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Announcement
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts Celebrates Five Years in San Francisco With Color Code
This exhibition presents new commissions by Bay Area artists Sadie Barnette, Angela Hennessy, Clare Rojas, and Zio Ziegler alongside work from the McEvoy Family Collection.
Art
Rumors About Death of the Bay Area Art Scene Are Greatly Exaggerated
Local artists and curators took issue with a New York Times report announcing the demise of the local art scene in light of the departure of two blue-chip galleries.
News
Exhibition Organizers Protest SF Library’s Censorship of "Zionism Is Racism” Mural
EastSide Arts Alliance and Nomadic Press are calling for the “timely removal” of their exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library unless the mural is reinstated.
Film
The Wrongful Murder Conviction That Ignited a Pan-Asian Activist Movement
Arriving amid increased anti-Asian racism and continuing discourse about the inhumanity of its prison system, this documentary is a strong historical gut punch.
News
San Francisco Museums Acquire Works by 30 Bay Area Artists
Wesaam Al-Badry, Rupy C. Tut, and Chelsea Ryoko Wong are among the artists whose work will be part of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor thanks to a $1M grant.
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Iris Eichenberg’s Mid-Career Survey Makes Its West Coast Premiere at the Museum of Craft and Design
The German artist’s work is exceptionally relevant today, embracing topics such as gender, queer identity, and the search for a safe, welcoming haven.
Art
White Boys and Divine Animals Bound Cleverly Together
Zadie Xa’s quilted textiles and Hernan Bas’s paintings of adolescent men enjoy a surprising but generative dialogue at San Francisco's Jessica Silverman gallery.