San Francisco
San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum to close indefinitely
Museum leaders cited persistently low attendance and support coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reasons for the “reimagining and rebuilding”
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist ‘legend’ Bernice Bing gets her first New York solo show
Nearly 30 years after her death, the market for Bing’s work is thriving
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco to change locations only two years after opening
The city's "start-up museum" will leave its original site in the Dogpatch neighbourhood and reopen in a new downtown development in October
San Francisco dealer Rebecca Camacho expands downtown footprint
Camacho says her new space in Jackson Square is further proof that art “plants the seeds for regrowth” in San Francisco’s core
Laurene Powell Jobs's non-profit buys San Francisco Art Institute and its $50m Diego Rivera mural
After years of financial problems, the troubled institution will enter its next chapter with help from the Apple dynasty
Collaborative approach fuels rise of San Francisco’s Friends Indeed gallery
Founder Micki Meng shows that working with like-minded gallerists can be an art trade superpower
Fog Design+Art fair straddles San Francisco’s countercultural past and complex present
Under the theme of “A Love Letter to San Francisco”, many exhibitors have chosen to champion the work of local artists, notching early sales
Technology for social good: how digital artists are using their work to promote inclusivity
San Francisco’s Gray Area Festival and the Bay Area Now 9 Exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts show how art can be used to form—and strengthen— communities
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum sues architect and construction company behind new $38m pavilion
The museum says that Why Architects and Swinerton Builders “failed to meet even the minimum museum-quality standards”
Former San Francisco Art Institute campus may house a future new art school
Bay Area philanthropists and arts leaders seek to continue the tradition of an art school at the old SFAI campus—great news for the Diego Rivera mural there
San Francisco gallerist filmed hosing down unhoused woman strikes deal to have battery charges dismissed
Collier Gwin, who was facing up to six months in prison if his case had gone to trial, will complete 35 hours of volunteer work
New theatre building will house famous Diego Rivera mural in San Francisco
A new three-hall performance centre on City College of San Francisco's campus will house "Pan-American Unity", which is currently on display at SFMoMA
San Francisco Art Institute files for bankruptcy
After years of financial troubles, one of the Bay Area's leading art school's faces the potential liquidation of its storied archive
Vast light installation on San Francisco's Bay Bridge goes dark amid $11m fundraising effort to keep it on
After a decade of illuminating the Bay Area's second-most iconic span, Leo Villareal's artwork will be removed due to outages and weather damage
Two San Francisco museums launch joint curatorial position focused on art of the African diaspora
The new position, created by SFMoMA and the Museum of the African Diaspora, will involve the development of exhibitions and other programmes at both institutions
Seeking more space, a San Francisco dealer relocates to the suburbs
Anthony Meier is joining many of the City by the Bay’s residents who have migrated out of the centre to more spacious surroundings since the start of the pandemic
First major show of Sandro Botticelli’s drawings to include five newly attributed works
Exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will bring together 27 drawings and reunite Uffizi’s Adoration of the Magi with its preparatory designs for the first time
San Francisco gallerist filmed spraying unhoused woman with hose arrested and charged with battery
Shannon Collier Gwin could face up to six months in prison if convicted
From the archive: San Francisco to unveil Hiroshi Sugimoto's towering sundial monument
The 70ft-high public art commission expresses "humanity's yearning for the infinite"
The rediscovery of Abstract Expressionist Bernice Bing
The Chinese American artist, who died at age 62 in relative obscurity, is the subject of an illuminating exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
San Francisco museums will waive admissions for a weekend thanks to anonymous donation
Twenty-one museums across the city will be free during the inaugural San Francisco Free Museum Weekend on 3-4 December
Is Alice Rahon the next Surrealist rediscovery?
San Francisco dealer Wendi Norris is giving Rahon the royal treatment, with a new exhibition and online archive
Artists fail to win lawsuit over erased murals at San Francisco queer bar
The property owner has been cleared of whitewashing LGBTQ art works at the Stud Bar
San Francisco artists will receive $1,000 per month as part of a guaranteed income pilot programme
The initiative, now in its second round and organised by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, aims to create a stable economic foundation for artists with few or no social safety net protections
Ruth Asawa made hundreds of masks of her San Francisco community—now a local museum is putting them on permanent display
Representing one of the artist’s least known but most ambitious works, "The Faces of Ruth Asawa" is going on show at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center
Reversing course after shakeup, San Francisco school board votes to keep controversial George Washington murals on view
Previously destined to be painted over, then simply covered up, the WPA frescoes have been at the centre of debates about US history, education and representation for four years
Artworks from Ukrainian museum appear as monumental projections in California
The partnership between a Bay Area nonprofit and a museum in Kyiv began shortly before the Russian invasion has taken on new urgency in the days since
San Francisco’s Fog art fair returns with rapid sales of tangible works and rising interest in the digital
The fair, which was canceled in 2021 due to Covid-19, has seen strong participation from local galleries and collectors, as well as institutions
‘More is more’: San Francisco’s new contemporary art centre reveals latest hires and inaugural programmes
The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco makes four key hires ahead of a series of pop-up events and exhibitions starting in January
The Big Review: Judy Chicago at De Young Museum
The retrospective of the legendary feminist offers some familiar pleasures and a chance to re-evaluate her recent work