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Family jewels

Family jewels

  • by Sura Wood
  • Nov 6, 2018

The Legion of Honor's "East Meets West: Jewels of the Maharajas from the Al Thani Collection" is a new exhibition that emphasizes cross-cultural exchange between India and the West.

To this artist, trash is beautiful

To this artist, trash is beautiful

  • by Michael Jortner
  • Oct 30, 2018

When you take in watercolorist Timothy Wells' new solo show "SF Made in China" at the Jack Fischer Gallery in Potrero Flats and feel the urge to remove his paintings from the wall only to toss them into your recycling bin,

Wonderful world of Charles & Ray Eames

Wonderful world of Charles & Ray Eames

  • by Sura Wood
  • Oct 23, 2018

a comprehensive, wide-ranging touring exhibition at OMCA surveys the careers and multidimensional practice of the influential, Southern California-based, husband-and-wife design team Charles & Ray Eames.

DC museums entice us

DC museums entice us

  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 23, 2018

As the swallows return to Capistrano, every fall Out There returns to the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, site of our misspent youth.

Andy Warhol seen in a different light

Andy Warhol seen in a different light

  • by Sura Wood
  • Oct 17, 2018

"Contact Warhol: Photography Without End," a new exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center showcasing the museum's 2014 acquisition of the world's largest archive of photographic images from the Warhol Foundation, includes selections from 3,600 contact sheets.

Our Sacramento

Our Sacramento

  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 17, 2018

When Saoirse Ronan as Lady Bird in Greta Gerwig's film of that name calls her hometown Sacramento "the Midwest of California," it's a good line but maybe a little bit unfair to our state capital.

Double the pleasure, double the fun

Double the pleasure, double the fun

  • by Sura Wood
  • Oct 3, 2018

A pair of small-scale shows at SFMOMA provides a double dip of Wayne Thiebaud, a painter affectionately known as the king of cakes and pies for his depictions of delectable confectionary treats.

Modesty requirements

Modesty requirements

  • by Sura Wood
  • Sep 26, 2018

Did you know that, since the 1950s, affluent Muslim women have patronized Parisian couturiers who've modified their designs to accommodate upscale clients' regional and religious sensitivities?

Out of the mists of the past

Out of the mists of the past

  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Sep 26, 2018

Sometimes a novel feels so true to your lived experience it feels pulled from your own life. That was our sensation reading "That Was Something," a new novel by Dan Callahan (Squares & Rebels).

Identity & the language of attire

Identity & the language of attire

  • by Sura Wood
  • Sep 19, 2018

"You are what you wear" might be a colloquial, less scholarly way to frame the premise of "Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress," a new touring show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Straight out of Mithila

Straight out of Mithila

  • by Sura Wood
  • Sep 12, 2018

"Painting is My Everything," an entrancing new fall exhibition at the Asian Art Museum, is an unmitigated delight. Though not large in scale, the show, featuring 30 modern ink-and-color works on paper, is big and zestful in spirit.

Fall Preview: Art Galleries

Fall Preview: Art Galleries

  • by Sura Wood
  • Sep 7, 2018

Since the gallery scene began to decentralize in the city, there has been a proliferation of new venues in addition to a plenitude of established ones. Below, find a microcosm of what's in store this fall.

Fall Preview: Art Museums

Fall Preview: Art Museums

  • by Sura Wood
  • Aug 29, 2018

Fall arrives with a bounty of museum exhibitions.

Reports from the front lines

Reports from the front lines

  • by Reports from the front lines
  • Aug 22, 2018

It's a particularly disillusioning time to take America's temperature, an assumption borne out by "This Land," the latest photography exhibition at Pier 24.