Arts & Entertainment Things To Do: Coffee Talk, Banned Book Bingo, AAPI Pop-Up, Silent Reading, Yerba Buena Gardens Fest This week, May 5–11, 2025: Hear the story behind Poorboy Coffee, play Banned Books Bingo, explore AAPI art at Levi’s Plaza, read silently at Bazaar Café, and dance to La Santa Cecilia at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival's opening show.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA to Feature Its First-Ever Solo Exhibition of the Work of Yayoi Kusama Starting in October The great polka-dot queen of contemporary art, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, will be featured in a year-long exhibition at SFMOMA that begins this October, and it will include her latest immersive "Infinity Mirror Room."
Arts & Entertainment New Exhibit Shows Off the Three-Decade Living Legacy of SF Drag Star Juanita MORE! — and Her Collection of Hats A San Francisco treasure and an enduring icon in the local nightlife scene, Juanita MORE! has always been more than just a drag queen. But defining what and who she is, as a person and a persona, requires a thorough look back at her, to-date, 30-year career which hasn't been undertaken until now.
Arts & Entertainment Check Out These Beautiful Aerial Photos Of Andres Amador's Sand Art At Ocean Beach (And Elsewhere) "People are really enthralled that I would do something that's destined to wash away," says earthscape artist Andres Amador. "That really strikes a chord with people. Because really, truly, that's the story of
Arts & Entertainment Ai Weiwei's Alcatraz Exhibition '@Large' Opens September 27th Celebrated Chinese dissident, architect and artist Ai Weiwei's highly anticipated exhibition "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz" will open this fall on September 27th and run through the end of April 2015. The exhibition
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Mapworks, Caterpillars, And Costumes This weekend, take in some art made from maps, celebrate a 45-year-old caterpillar, and get yourself some amazing clothes for as little as $1! Friday: Opening Reception for UnTethered: Drawing With Scissors SF
Arts & Entertainment Nicholas Cage To Be Subject Of Local Hipster Art Show Academy Award-winning actor turned sellout turned meme Nicholas Cage has inspired one local would-be curator to do a whole show around him. As the Weekly is reporting, "DJ and event planner" Ezra Croft
Arts & Entertainment Ai Weiwei Talks Alcatraz Exhibition After the October announcement that celebrated Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei would be bringing an exhibition to Alcatraz island, the New York Times has tracked the man down to spill some more details on
Arts & Entertainment Ai Weiwei Planning Major Art Exhibition On Alcatraz Celebrated Chinese artist, architect, and outspoken political dissident Ai Weiwei hopes to put his next major art exhibition on Alcatraz Island. Ai is currently working with National Park Service, the Golden Gate National
Arts & Entertainment David Hockney's iPad Painting Exhibit Opens At DeYoung Widely loved British painter and FOW (friend of Warhol) David Hockney, who splits his time between London, his native Yorkshire, and Los Angeles, took quickly to the medium of the iPad. In what
Arts & Entertainment 'Feel The Energy That Is All Around': S.F. As Muse In The '90s (By Margaret Seelie) Riding the 49 down Mission Street, I realized that the cityscape was very similar to what the Mission School artists saw twenty years ago. The Energy That Is All Around
Arts & Entertainment Video: Regarding Jay DeFeo's 'The Rose,' On View at SFMOMA Artist Jay DeFeo lived most of her adult life in the Bay Area, working as an artist in the Upper Fillmore in the 1950s and 60s, and ultimately ending up on the faculty
Arts & Entertainment Pics from 'Sand By The Ton' Party, Saturday 7/11 in West Oakland Apparently if you weren't at this enormous grand opening party/fundraiser at the American Steel warehouse in West Oakland on Saturday, then you missed something pretty huge and fun. We, alas, were not,
Arts & Entertainment Richard Avedon Exhibit Opening at SFMOMA On Saturday, the first major retrospective of the photographs of Richard Avedon since his death in 2004 opens at SFMOMA. San Francisco is the only U.S. stop on the tour for this
