'Hockney's Pictures' - More work by the master in a new book

"Hockney's Pictures" is an updated and expanded version of the volume from 2004, edited and with a minimum of texts by Andrew Brown, and packed with 522 illustrations. Artist David Hockney's droll wit is also on display.

Peter Hujar's 'Portraits in Life and Death' - photo book reissued nearly 50 years on

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.

Trends & traditions: Fall Arts Preview in museums & galleries 2024

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.

David Hockney at 87 in new book; swimming pools, beautiful boys, and cigarettes

"The World According to David Hockney," by Martin Gayford, Thames & Hudson publishers, seems designed as a holiday stocking stuffer: colorful images by Hockney, including several greatest hits, and Hockney quotes, or "epigrams" as Gayford describes them.

Rediscovering Richard Caldwell Brewer: Bay Area gay painter may finally get his due

Richard Caldwell (Dick) Brewer (1923-2014), may be one of the most interesting but uncelebrated gay artists in America. But SF gallery Lost Art Salon offers a trove of his paintings and drawings.

Bringing Bacon Home: collection of Francis Bacon letters shows the painter in a new light

Edited by critic/curator Michael Peppiatt, with a forward by novelist Colm Toibin, "Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words" arrives at a propitious moment. Bacon's paintings have set world record-breaking prices at auction.

'Japanese Prints in Transition' - classics and contemporaries at the Legion of Honor

The lavish new exhibit, "Japanese Prints in Transition," at the Legion of Honor, is as welcome as spring. The exhibit spans the earliest prints to works by artists competing with photography in the early 20th century, plus contemporary works.

John Bankston's '20 Years in the Rainbow Forest'

The two-decade survey of paintings by John Bankston, now at the Rena Bransten Gallery through April 20, features prime examples of the cartoony figurative work that's brought him renown, along with more recent work reflecting shifts in media.

Wolfgang Tillmans' 'To look without fear' retrospective at SFMOMA

Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans likes to shake up cavernous white cube museum spaces. With his retrospective exhibition, "To look without fear," he does so at the SFMOMA, personally revising an exhibition that debuted in 2022 in New York City.

Picture this: museum and gallery highlights for fall

Art exhibits to look forward to this fall run the gamut from spectacles to the more scholarly.

'Breaking the Rules' – Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown at the Crocker Art Museum

Sacramento's new dual exhibit, "Breaking the Rules," benefits by the association that Crocker Art Museum curator Scott A. Shields had with both gay artists during their lifetimes.

Sargent and Spain: John Singer Sargent exhibit graces the Legion of Honor

Like a swank ocean liner of a bygone era, the John Singer Sargent exhibition, "Sargent and Spain," at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco from the National Gallery in Washington, is a welcome arrival, full of his trademark bravura paintings and drawings.

Bernice Bing: Asian Art Museum's showcase of the rediscovered artist

The powerful exhibition of work by San Francisco artist Bernice Bing recently opened at the Asian Art Museum, with its run extended through June. There's ample reason for the revival of interest in Bing's work and life.

Breaking boundaries: 'Beyond Binary' at SF State Fine Arts Gallery

The timely "Beyond Binary" exhibit of trans and non-binary-identifying artists at the Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, is on view through Oct. 27.

George Platt Lynes' 'Daring Eye'- new biography on pioneering gay photographer

Allen Ellenzweig's important new book, "George Platt Lynes: the Daring Eye," reveals far more about the gay photographer and his times, nearly seven decades since his untimely death.

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