Tonight - two shows open (one show leaves) at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (49 Geary Ste. 411): Orly Corgan's The Wonder of You, and Sentences by Nicholas Knight - both artists are from New York. In her post-modern feminist tapestries, Cogan takes vintage tablecloths and other linens from days gone by and transforms them through embroidery into an erotic fantasyland featuring mostly her. She muses, eats sweets, snorts coke, contemplates kissing frogs and kicks around......

We see it all the time, and we are fairly certain there is good money to be made doing it - public art is the topic of tonight's workshop in Southern Exposure's SoExchange series of artist-led workshops. How Do I Make My Art Public Art? features panelists, Seyed Alavi, Louise Bertelsen, Packard Jennings, Wang Po Shu, and Rigo 23. It takes place at the Mission Cultural Center (2868 Mission St at 25th) and covers how......

When you think about Cheech and Chong, we bet you imagine a three-foot bong and a lot of smoke. How about one of the most celebrated collections of Chicano artwork? Didn’t think so. Over the years, between making movies about his once beloved cannibis sativa, Cheech Marin has amassed a collection of spectacular paintings that celebrates the expressions of his native Mexican-American culture. Amid the raging debates over immigrant rights, Marin has decided it’s finally......