It is exactly this that makes Yang Fudong such an outstanding artist and this exhibition so exemplary: He is able to express the overarching questions of a whole society, a whole historical moment — his context — in a personal and understandable way. Read More…
Downtown Shattuck Avenue has undergone several generations of mass transit, the relics and pieces of which are integrated into the restaurants there today. In the pioneering days, the mile-long pier that once docked ferries to and from San Francisco dropped off passengers at Center and Shattuck. Now Center Street is Read More…
Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown There are only three remaining Japantowns in the United States, and we are lucky to have one in San Francisco. Every year, in each of the three Japantowns, the blooming of the Japanese cherry blossoms, the “sakura,” is celebrated with a festival that attracts hundreds Read More…
Devendra Banhart preformed through the L@TE: Friday Nights series at the Berkeley Art Museum.
There are just as many celebrity portraits as enigmas in the Berkeley Art Museum’s latest exhibit, “Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240.” O.J. Simpson clutching a football. A young Diane von Furstenberg, wild-eyed and wild-haired. But also lesser-known faces like the mysterious Frau Buch — dark-haired and clutching a black Read More…
There’s something about California that makes people go a little nuts — in a good way. When 19th-century colonists first faced the all-consuming blanket of the Pacific Ocean, customs and ideologies got thrown out the window. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Golden State served as a haven for Read More…
When one thinks of the Golden Age of American cinema, it’s only natural to associate the period with the host of actresses that defined the Hollywood star system. With titles like “To Catch a Thief” and “Rear Window” one might be inclined to give all attention to Grace Kelly’s luminous Read More…
Fear is like this: Someone like a woman that you grab ahold of her hand and going down the escalator when of a sudden you happens to be holding a stranger hand not realizing that she isn’t your mother is scary.” This is just one of the many fears in Read More…