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You no longer need to go to the Art Institute for live-model sessions. PhotoS: Amy Berk
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SFAI’s free online life-drawing sessions for all ages are a great stay-at-home solution

By Sharon Anderson

As California’s stay at home orders are extended, SFAI’s City Studio program is offering to the public a free-for-all-ages collection of online drawing lessons using live mode... Read More
Left to right: Orin Carpenter’s Sick and Tired, 2020; Detail of Roberto Zamora’s Flamenco Fiesta, 2019. Images: Courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Bay Area Artists at ‘The de Young Open’

By Sharon Anderson

The M.H. de Young has long-standing tradition of engaging the talent of artists in the Bay Area, and in celebration of its 125th year in 2020, the museum presents “The de Young ... Read More
Photo: COURTESY ASIANART.ORG
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Asian Art Museum | Lost at Sea: Art Recovered from Shipwrecks

Fri.–Mon. 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Thursday 1–8 p.m. 200 Larkin St. This exhibition traces the pathways of 12th-century stone reliefs and 15th-century ceramics, from Vietnam to the oc... Read More
Left to right: David Park Figure in Chair, ca. 1958. © Estate of David Park; courtesy Natalie Park Schutz, Helen Park Bigelow, and Hackett Mill, San Francisco; photo: Don Ross; David Park, Rehearsal, ca. 1949–50. © Estate of David Park; courtesy Natalie Park Schutz, Helen Park Bigelow, and Hackett Mill, San Francisco
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David Park retrospective at the newly reopened SFMOMA

Dump of Abstract Expressionist work leads to Bay Area Figurative Art Movement
By Sharon Anderson

In the 1940s, Abstract Expressionism was an American painting movement that grew to have a global influence on the visual arts. During that same period, David Park filled his Ford... Read More
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Return of the arts

Museums reopen their doors to the public
By Sharon Anderson

Bay Area museums and galleries closed their doors to the public in March and have instead offered virtual tours and online education experiences. Starting in late September, sever... Read More
Held together by hand and rope, participants drift on the surface of Lake Michigan in Float, which memorializes the killing of Eugene Williams, who was stoned to death for floating over to the “white” side of the beach. Photo: Courtesy of SFAI
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Jefferson Pinder debuts video works created for the 100th anniversary of Red Summer race riots

By Sharon Anderson

Originally presented in the San Francisco Art Institute’s Walter and McBean Galleries earlier this year, SFAI and Oakland’s Aggregate Space Gallery have created an immersive v... Read More
Nickolas Muray's Frida with Olmeca Figurine, Coyoacán, 1939. Image courtesy the de Young Museum; © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives; COURTESY the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Online education and BLM community support at the de Young Museum

By Sharon Anderson

Although the de Young museum remains closed, they continue to offer online art and articles to the general public through the Covid-19 shutdown. Recently, the museum has taken a p... Read More
Michael McClure in San Francisco in 1971. Photo: Harold Adler
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Remembering Michael McClure

By Sharon Anderson

I smile to myself. I know all that there is to know. I see all there is to feel. I am friendly with the ache in my belly. The answer to love is my voice. There is no Time... Read More
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Business as unusual: Creativity in isolation

Why we can anticipate an explosion of new art when we emerge from this crisis
By Sharon Anderson

I’ve noticed that hard times give some people a genius for living and a lot of flair for the fun. Like so many of us these days, my only excursions outdoors consist of daily wal... Read More
The interior of the David Ireland house. Photo: courtesy 500cappstreet.com
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The return to ‘battleship grey’

Inside the renovation of the David Ireland House that returns it to its roots
By Sharon Anderson

You can’t make art by making art” is one of assemblage artist David Ireland’s best-known quotes used to describe his practices during his career. Ireland is known inter... Read More
Left to right: Stephen Berkman’s Conjoined Twins and Remedy for Reverie. Photos: Courtesy Contemporary Jewish Museum
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‘Predicting the Past:  Zohar Studios, The Lost Years’ at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

By Sharon Anderson

The Contemporary Jewish Museum presents an immersive photography installation by Los Angeles-based artist Stephen Berkman. Shimmel Zohar was a 19-century Jewish immigrant and photo... Read More
Left to Right: The Buddhist lama Tashipel, 1210–73, Tibet. Courtesy Asian Art Museum; Milarepa, 1375–1425, Central Tibet.  Photo: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, photo by Travis Fullerton
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Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey

By Sharon Anderson

The Asian Art Museum, in its latest exhibition, “Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey toward Enlightenment” invites the public to open their eyes, wake up, and see the art of Tib... Read More
Detail of Frederick Olmstead’s The Marble Workers mural currently under restoration at SFAI. Photo: naomi Rose
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San Francisco Art Institute awarded grant to restore lost frescoes

By Sharon Anderson

The San Francisco Art Institute was recently awarded a $94,000 Save America’s Treasures grant to restore and conserve two New Deal-era frescoes. The murals are located at SFAI’... Read More
Linda Gass’s Dogpatch: Impact of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. Photo: courtesy Museum Craft and Design
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Climate change in the Bay Area is focus of two new exhibitions

By Sharon Anderson

 The Museum of Craft and Design has two new compelling exhibitions dealing with the ways in which individuals are addressing climate change. “Survival Architecture and the Art o... Read More
Detail of Barbara Jones-Hogu’s Unite, 1971. Photo: Courtesy of Lusenhop Fine Art; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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‘Soul of a Nation’ comes to the de Young

By Sharon Anderson

The acclaimed “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” opens at the de Young on Nov. 9, 2019 and continues through March 15, 2020. Featuring more than 150 works by o... Read More


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