The Rodin centenary at the Legion of Honor

I first visited san Francisco at the age of 18 as a college student in Michigan pursuing an art degree. I yearned to visit the typical tourist destinations, but one location was at... Read More

A & E

Bruce Conner: It’s All True at SFMOMA through Jan. 22

By Sharon Anderson

SFMOMA is presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of Bruce Conner, one of the leading art figures in the Bay Area from the 1950s until his death in 2008. Conner’s unconv... Read More

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Paul Klee at Play through May 14, 2017 at SFMOMA

Puppets reveal playfulness

By Sharon Anderson

As part of an ongoing series dedicated to the artist’s work, SFMOMA presents Paul Klee’s paintings, drawings, and prints alongside the handmade puppets he created for his son, ... Read More

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‘27 Steps’ peace pavilion at the Market Street Prototyping Festival

By Sharon Anderson

We believe in the power of constant reminders of peace. — 27 Steps design team Artists, architects, designers, and technologists have created an installation to deliver a message... Read More

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Sojourner Truth, photography, and the fight against slavery at the Berkeley Art Museum

By Sharon Anderson

I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth Through oct. 23, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive pre... Read More

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Ed Ruscha and the Great American West

By Sharon Anderson

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents an exhibition through Oct. 9 exploring the art of Ed Ruscha and the American West. The museum acquired the artist’s complete ... Read More

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Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

By Sharon Anderson

All you have to do is hear the name, or read it on a page, and a whole world opens up before your eyes. A vast, mysterious world, unlike any other in the history of cinema. — Mar... Read More

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SFMOMA reopens in expanded space

By Sharon Anderson

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will open its doors to the public on May 14 after a massive seven-year expansion project. The acclaimed Norwegian architectural firm Snøhett... Read More

A & E, Arts & Culture

The Wattis Institute presents Void California: 1975–1989

By Sharon Anderson

A survey of punk-inflected media is on display through April 9 at The Wattis Institute. Void California takes a look at a parody of culture that created an alternative history of... Read More

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Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia at the Legion of Honor

By Sharon Anderson

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture. — Pierre Bonnard The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents the first ... Read More

News

David Bowie remembered

By Sharon Anderson

“Here are we, one magical moment, such is the stuff from where dreams are woven.” — David Bowie, Station to Station David Bowie died on Jan. 10. Two days earlier, he... Read More

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Janet Cardiff’s ‘The Forty Part Motet’ to close this month

By Sharon Anderson

The Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) have presented the sound installation, The Forty Part Motet by sound artist Janet C... Read More

Book Notes

Author Jed Rasula presents a new history of Dada in Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and The Unmaking of the Twentieth Century

By Sharon Anderson

Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all the spaces that reason has not been able to ... Read More

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Japanese inspiration on Western artists

By Sharon Anderson

Beginning Oct. 30, the Asian Art Museum will present a uni-que opportunity to illustrate where European, American, and Japanese art intersect. Looking East: How Japan Inspired Mone... Read More

Book Notes

‘The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers,’ by Noah Charney

By Sharon Anderson

Hold! You crafty ones, strangers to work, and pilferers of other men’s brains! Think not rashly to lay your thievish hands upon my works. Beware! Know you not that I have a ... Read More

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