More than 60 works on loan from the museum of Fine Arts in Boston comprise the exhibition “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the Asian Art Museum, on display through Aug. 18. The ... Read More
Fort Mason Center will host the San Francisco International Arts Festival for 11 days of performances from May 23 to June 2. The festival will feature 50 U.S. and 13 international ... Read More
From May 19 through Sept. 2, 2019, the SFMOMA will present the first retrospective of the work of Andy Warhol in 25 years. The critically acclaimed exhibition is an exclusive West ... Read More
The Flemish baroque master painter Peter Paul Rubens spent pivotal years, between 1609 and 1621, in Antwerp, during which time, he refined what would become his trademark style. Th... Read More
The year was 1997. a French software engineer, Philippe Kahn, had become a father. Using a cobbled-together device consisting of his mobile phone, a digital camera, and a linked o... Read More
During the years 1913 until his death in 1926, Claude Monet explored an increasingly vibrant abstract painting style originating from the gardens he cultivated around his home in G... Read More
‘THEN THEY CAME FOR ME’ First They Came is a poem written by the German Lutheran pastor and theologian Martin Niemöller about cowardice in the face of the rise of the Nazi ... Read More
At the beginning of his painting career, Cy Twombly deviated from the brand of abstraction dominating painting in the 1950s to form his remarkably distinctive calligraphic markings... Read More
Art publishing in 2018 produced a variety of interesting possibilities for the art lover on your Christmas list. Any fan of the British royal family will love Buckingham Palace: Th... Read More
In the de Young’s first exhibition dedicated to the work of Paul Gauguin, Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey explores the work of the artist as it relates to his personal relationships... Read More
The Asian Art Museum presents a vibrant, traditional arts movement in Painting is My Everything founded by women of the Mithila region in India. These paintings were originally cre... Read More
Martin Gayford’s latest book takes on the history of London artists from the end of World War II to the 1970s. More than just an art history book, Gayford weaves stories about re... Read More
After 14 years as a top Bay Area art dealer, Christina Maybaum has opened a new gallery at 49 Geary. The inaugural group exhibition runs through Aug. 31 featuring emerging and mid-... Read More
From July 21 through Oct.21, 2018, SFMOMA brings together the first West Coast retrospective of the American photographer Susan Meiselas. Meiselas’s work covers an ambitious rang... Read More
The de Young Museum is presenting a large-scale, traveling survey of Precisionism, the first modern art movement to come out of the United States. During the early 20th century, Pr... Read More