Last week was Art Basel Miami Beach’s 10th edition, and after attending ten out of the eighteen participating art fairs, walking nearly 20 miles and visiting over 400 galleries, we were proud to see our Bay Area visual arts ambassadors well represented. We stayed on Collins street in the heart of Miami Beach where many of the art hotels took place. more ›

(By Micke Tong) While observing Bay Area artist Scott Greenwalt's work, we can't help but imagine a real-time transmutation taking place. Humanoid deconstructed body parts, follicles of hair and organs are displayed with high contrast and a rich colorful palette. Scott shows us a very labyrinthine technique of paint strokes, which depicts polygonal shapes (plane figure that is bounded by a closed path) and branches of veins. more ›

Artist, designer, and art-lover, Olivia Warnecke, sent SFist her list of top gallery openings going on around town this month. more ›

Tonight's the opening of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery’s 40th anniversary show, Now & When, in which several Bay Area cultural producers, including the Bureau of Urban Secrets, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Taro Hattori, Packard Jennings, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ken Lo, Gay Outlaw & Bob Schmitz, Joseph del Pesco, Paul Schiek, and Margaret Tedesco & Matt Borruso, were asked to create projects based on the concept of time capsules "as a means to critically confront the value, meaning and methodologies of marking time." more ›

SFMOMA Artist Gallery's epic, four-and-a-half day-long 17th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale starts tonight with a special preview reception, for those wanting a leg up. You'll also have a chance to beat the weekend crowd tomorrow and Friday afternoon/evening. more ›

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-- Veronica Klaus: High-art performer and jazz songstress croons alongside her Boom Boom Boys tonight at 9 p.m. at Cafe Du Nord, 2170 Market Street (at Sanchez); $15. more ›

Welcome to a new SFist feature, Treasure Hunt, as new contributor Natacha scours the city for all those cool, somewhat out-of-the-way, stores featuring items you definitely cannot find at your average Walgreens. Asia Galleries 1534 Grant Ave., San Francisco CA. The store opens at 11AM Wednesday through Sunday and after that who knows... more ›

All the shows we told you about last time are stil running, so if you haven't hit them yet, get on it! In addition, we have a one-time-only event for you for this Friday: more ›