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Art World

SFMOMA acquires cutting-edge collection of contemporary art

By Sharon Anderson

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired new works over the last six months, including innovative photo-based and video artworks. Works on paper, paintings, sculpture, ... Read More
The Best of Books

The Marina Books Inc. best sellers 

By Chris Hsiang

Here is a list of the most popular books sold last month at Books Inc. in the Marina. HARDCOVER FICTION1. Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid2. The Emperor of Gladness, by O... Read More
Art World

‘Collaborating With the Muses’ and ‘Still Burning’ at 500 Capp Street

By Sharon Anderson

This summer 500 Capp Street will celebrate two seminal voices of the Bay Area’s conceptual art scene with the next installation of 2025 Guggenheim Fellow Mildred Howard’s Coll... Read More
Films

The SFX team behind ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ on how they executed the movie’s best gags

By Kalyn Corrigan

When death comes knocking in a Final Destination movie, it’s a Rube Goldberg amalgamation of random items in any given room — a live wire, a loose screw, a faulty garbage disp... Read More
The Best of Books

The Marina Books Inc. best sellers 

By Chris Hsiang

Here is a list of the most popular books sold last month at Books Inc. in the Marina. HARDCOVER FICTION1. The Emperor of Gladness, by Ocean Vuong2. Hotter in the Hamptons, ... Read More
Films

Review: ‘Materialists’ looks to bend the rom-com into a new shape

By Chad Byrnes

Korean Canadian filmmaker Celine Song brings her pensive touch to the classic rom-com in Materialists, her follow-up to 2023’s Past Lives, attempting to subvert the genre and de... Read More
Art World

‘Black Gold: Stories Untold’ exhibiting at Fort Point

By Sharon Anderson

The FOR-SITE organization presents its highly anticipated new project Black Gold: Stories Untold. This innovative exhibition invites more than fifteen contemporary artists to refl... Read More
The Best of Books

The Marina Books Inc. best sellers 

By Chris Hsiang

Here is a list of the most popular books sold last month at Books Inc. in the Marina. HARDCOVER FICTION1. Great Big Beautiful Life, by Emily Henry2. James, by Percival Ever... Read More
Films

Review: ‘Mountainhead’ scales the modern media machine

By Erin Maxwell

In Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, architect Howard Roark stands as a symbol of individualism by rejecting conformity in favor of self-reliance, vision, and unshakable determinatio... Read More
Television

Review: ‘Sirens’ calls forth family dysfunction in a world of wealth

By Erin Maxwell

Sisters Devon and Simone DeWitt aren’t exactly close these days. Ever since Simone scored a swanky gig as assistant to Michaela Kell, the activist wife of billionaire Peter Kell... Read More
Art World

‘Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting’ at SFMOMA

By Sharon Anderson

The SFMOMA presents the first survey exhibition in the U.S. of artist Kunié Sugiura, who for more than 60 years has explored the intersections between photography and painting. B... Read More
Films

Review: Although saddled with glitches, ‘On Swift Horses’ just crosses the finish line

By Chad Byrnes

Elegiac yet restrained and lyrical, Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses explores the lives of two lost souls trying to find their footing in 1950s America. What initially seems a f... Read More
The Best of Books

The Marina Books Inc. best sellers 

By Chris Hsiang

Here is a list of the most popular books sold last month at Books Inc. in the Marina HARDCOVER FICTION1. Great Big Beautiful Life, by Emily Henry2. The Wedding People, by A... Read More
Art World

‘Ruth Asawa: Retrospective’ at the SFMOMA

By Sharon Anderson

“An artist is not special,” Ruth Asawa once said. “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.” The San Francisco Museum of Modern ... Read More
Films

André Holland lights up ‘The Actor’ in the role he was born to play

By Kalyn Corrigan

André Holland knew he had to land the role of Paul Cole, the mysterious, debonair, multifaceted man without a past at the heart of The Actor, the film based on Donald E. Westlake... Read More

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