Today
Sections
More
Features
Art
An interview with Thiebaud
Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker conducted an onstage conversation with painter Wayne Thiebaud at UC Davis on Nov. 18, a few days after the painter turned 90. Watch the video.
The art of a neighborhood
When they found their new neighborhood, the Portola, to be lacking an arts community, Kate Connell and Oscar Melara became one.
The street whisperer
Scribbling in a language of doodles, stencils and graffiti, Jeremy Novy uses underground street art to honor S.F's gay history.
Magical mystery tourist
For 40 years, Stephen Goldblatt lugged around a box of film negatives from two days he spent on an exclusive photo shoot with the Beatles. Those photos are now on display at UC Berkeley.
Art Features
From memory
After losing his short-term memory, artist James Sterling Pitt says his art practice has helped him make sense of his situation.
'Organized bedlam'
Megan Whitmarsh's work dives headfirst, paintbrushes and stitchery needles in hand, into a messy, captivating, color-wheel chaos of pop.
A labor of love
"Knock Knock" not only features work from bright artists in the U.S. but also represents a cultural exchange between S.F. and Sweden.
A more permanent exhibition
Catherine Wagner's photographs of Moscone Center will be etched into the granite walls of the forthcoming Central Subway.
A museum to watch
The vastly expanded Crocker Art Museum has tripled its space to 170,000 square feet, just in time to mark its 125th year.Art Reviews
A whiff of criminality
Sculptor Lucy Puls appears to have noted the forlorn, abandoned quality that much contemporary installation art exhibits.
Amplifying bold ideas
For range and spark of invention, Kenneth Baker can hardly recall a S.F. gallery debut to compare with that of Oaklander Randy Colosky at Ampersand.
Uneasy video
Get ready to cringe. Mexico City native Yoshua Okón elves into discomfort zones that the mass media ignore.
Snapshots in paint
The camera typically contributes to the work of Robert Bechtle, but his drawings and watercolors show how little photographic info matters to his art.
'Exposed' at SFMOMA
A generational fissure will undoubtedly run through audience responses to the engrossing exhibition "Exposed."
advertisement
|
your ad here
Galleries
Lucy Puls and James Pitt review: sculpture
Northern California sculptor Lucy Puls appears to have noted the forlorn...
more