Tamara de Lempicka's first major US retrospective, with more than 120 works, is dedicated to the artist's full oeuvre (also drawings and experimental still lifes) currently at the de Young Museum.
Tamara de Lempicka is having a banner year, which is rather remarkable considering she died 44 years ago. Along with a retrospective art exhibition at the de Young Museum, a new documentary fully explores her fascinating life.
The intersection of early LGBT rights activism, science fiction, and the occult are beautifully recounted in the new book, "Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagination."
In 1981, photographer Ken Werner published a book of photos, titled simply, "Halloween: A Fantasy in Three Acts," that featured some of his photos from those wild street parties of long ago. The book has just been reissued in a new edition.
The only book of his work published in his lifetime, Peter Hujar's "Portraits in Life and Death," considered a cult classic by some, has been reissued by Liveright Publishing.
News Is Out, a collaboration of six LGBTQ+ media representing more than 250 collective years of experience covering the community, is launching the first Local LGBTQ+ Media Giving Day Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 during LGBTQ History Month.
While the very popular Castro Street Fair will take over that district on Sunday, October 6, you can be sure we have plenty more arts and nightlife events all around the Bay Area in Going Out.
Sure, we've got your leather, your circuit parties, and your cruisy fun. But we've also got arts and nightlife events that don't have such a kinky dress code, in abundance, in Going Out.
San Francisco has the first-ever Transgender District, the Office of Trans Initiatives, and the status as a sanctuary city for trans and gender-nonconforming people, but there's another trans-embracing metropolis on the West Coast: Portland.
Get out your cha-cha heels. Filmmaker, author and artist John Waters returns to Rena Bransten Gallery for his fifth exhibit of unusual and odd artworks.
If you like to collect things, you have probably come across the name Funko, as they have a huge community of collectors, being a company that has made the lives of individuals more beautiful.
From SFMOMA embracing sports, to the more traditional show of American masterpieces at the de Young, and the Oakland Museum melding popular culture and politics in "Calli Americas," fine arts offer plenty this fall.
