Oct
17
Seydou Keïta captured Bamako life at the turn of colonialism in Mali. Keïta’s story is mythic and rich, as is that of his art and photography, as both rose to remarkable international fame.
Sep
07
Pow! Wow! Long Beach, a contemporary art festival, recently took over Long Beach, California — both in and off the streets, with an accompanying exhibit at the Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) called “Vitality & Verve in the Third Dimension.”
Sep
06
Debra Scacco creates rich, multimedia pieces that play with light, reflections, shadows, walls, and borders in her 2015-2016 solo show The Letting Go at Klowden Mann.
Jun
10
Before cell phones and selfies, American artist Cindy Sherman influenced the world with her monumental and ongoing series of self-portraiture.
May
25
SFMOMA celebrated its 75th anniversary with a huge architectural expansion, only rivaled by its technological innovations.
May
11
Explore Yinka Shonibare’s first film Un Ballo in Maschera featuring dramatic postcolonial performances that highlight the slipperiness of identity-making and history-telling.
Apr
26
In a world of binaries, Grace Ndiritu creates a slippery space where she can present the world with art that is just as thoroughly slippery as the world, museums, and history-shaping narratives that surround us.
Apr
19
Camille Page’s underwater paintings blend a perfect amount of the figurative with the abstract.
Mar
21
A recent scientific study argues that France’s Chauvet cave paintings are not only the oldest paintings but also perhaps the most mature in their depiction of a volcanic natural disaster.
Mar
18
Through a didactic retelling of history, Ringgold uses her quilts to reframe the past, freeing buried voices while offering new, stronger voices to future generations.
