Performance
Audience Members Cut Iranian Artist’s Hair in Moving Performance
At San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Mobina Nouri took scissors to her own strands and invited others to do the same.
San Francisco
News
SF Gallerist Arrested for Hosing Down Unhoused Woman
“The alleged battery of an unhoused member of our community is completely unacceptable,” said the city’s district attorney.
News
Artist Honors Unhoused Woman Hosed Down by SF Dealer
Courtney Desiree Morris staged a thoughtful performance as “a reckoning with the violence” of the gallerist’s actions.
Art
What to See in San Francisco's Art Week
Shows not to be missed during the Bay Area’s mid-January flurry of art activity.
News
SF Gallery Owner Blasted for Hosing Down Unhoused Woman
Foster Gwin Gallery has deactivated its social media accounts since its owner, Collier Gwin, was filmed spraying down a woman on the sidewalk.
Art
The Horror and Banality of American Racism
Christy Chan’s Who’s Coming to Save You? makes clear the perpetual nature of American bigotry.
Art
A Devastating and Breathtaking Vision of Climate Change
Dean Byington’s Cassandra warning call in his art reveals the world we know as a facade teetering on the brink of collapse.
Art
For Julie Buffalohead, Animals Express What Words Cannot
There’s something very funny — and unsettling — about Buffalohead's paintings of animals engaged in human situations.
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Bull.Miletic: Proxistant Vision Takes Over the Museum of Craft and Design
The Oslo-based artist duo Bull.Miletic returns to San Francisco to explore the influence of new aerial imaging technologies.
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.
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.