A &amp; E

Saoirse Ronan’s Academy Award-nominated supporting performance as a precocious but troubled 13-year-old in Atonement — a 2007 British period drama — provided clear evidence t... Read More

René Magritte: The Fifth Season comes to SFMOMA

The legendary surrealist painter René Magritte will be the subject of a retrospective of his late work at SFMOMA. More than 20 artworks will be shown for the first time in a U.S. ... Read More

Enter Stage Left

On the good ship Tequila, redux

By Evalyn Baron

I took my first ocean cruise: down the coast of California, to Ensenada, Mexico. And the upshot? As pleasurable as parts of it were, I don’t need to take another cruise anytime s... Read More

Julian Schnabel’s Symbols of Actual Life comes to San Francisco

The Legion of Honor brings a rare exhibition to San Francisco by one of the most significant painters of our time. Julian Schnabel’s first West Coast exhibition in 30 years featu... Read More

Television

Welcome to the age of video overload: Here’s what’s worth watching

As mass media became increasingly massive during the past five decades, some pundit or scholar developed the concept of “information overload.” One might imagine a poor unfortu... Read More

April: A month for art lovers

By Lynette Majer

Get your art on this month with a variety of art fairs across the city. Start with the Spring Open Studios (April 21–22) at Hunter’s Point Shipyard and Islais Creek Studios, wh... Read More

Enter Stage Left

People behaving badly: Revelers go blah!

By Evalyn Baron

I’ll never forget that particular St. Patrick’s Day afternoon in New York years ago when I saw inebriated teenage boys pissing on the north wall of the Metropolitan Museum of A... Read More

Movie Reviews

Panther power and subversion

It’s been a few weeks since the release of the incredibly enjoyable, wildly kinetic, and unquestionably groundbreaking superhero movie Black Panther, the latest addition to what�... Read More

Asian Art Museum asks life’s biggest questions in Divine Bodies

The Asian Art Museum’s exhibition Divine Bodies (March 9–July 29) will feature Buddhist and Hindu figurative sculpture from 1,500 years ago. Seventy large-scale historical scu... Read More

Pop Culture

Earworms, ‘earbuddies,’ and ‘tearworms’

I was simply minding my own business at a high-tech shopping mall when singer-songwriter-actor Justin Timberlake’s summer hit “Can’t Stop the Feeling” — a highpoint of th... Read More

Casanova: The Seduction of Europe at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Beginning this month, the Legion of Honor will have on view more than 80 works of art —paintings, sculptures, works on paper, period furnishings, delicate porcelains, and lavish ... Read More

Miya Ando’s Oborozuki (Moon Obscured by Clouds) at Nancy Toomey Fine Art