Getting Personal With the Occupy Oakland Movement
International Worker’s Day or May Day only comes once a year but the individuals involved in the Occupy Oakland movement are constantly battling for the rights of workers and seeking to attract more national attention to the issue of inequality.
Art That Glows at SOMArts
Luminous artwork comes to SOMArts Friday April 27, 2012 as part of the Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party.
Global Meets Local in the Work of Tomokazu Matsuyama
Artist Tomokazu Matsuyama presents a new solo exhibition at the Frey Norris gallery starting May 3, 2012.
The Victorian Avant-Garde at the Legion of Honor
Because of the rapid growth of modernism as an artistic movement in the early 1900s, the works of cutting-edge Victorian artists that predated and influenced the subsequent generation were often overshadowed.
The Self Portraits of Cindy Sherman
Photographer Cindy Sherman has been producing self-portraits since the mid 1970s that deconstruct and play with the idea of identity and photography as a medium of visual representation.
Narrowing the Gap Between Science and the Humanities
Art and science get cozy at Southern Exposure in new exhibition Intimate Science, which focuses on the work of a number of artist-researchers who draw inspiration from multiple disciplines.
Exhibition by Legendary Cartoonist Daniel Clowes in Oakland
For the first time, the collected work of Oakland-based artist Daniel Clowes including comics, graphic novels and screenplays will be exhibited publicly.
Revisiting the Ancient Art of Printmaking
Printmaking, the art of creating an image not by drawing directly on paper, but by indirect transfer, has existed in some form for close to a millennium.
Nato Green and Kamau Bell: Seeing the Humor in Politics
Every Monday until May 7th, Hemlock Tavern presents “Comedy SuperPAC: Promoting Good Comedy and Great Causes Since 2012,” featuring two of San Francisco’s most prominent comedians right now, Nato Green and Kamau Bell, performing new material.
Live Sculpting at Project One to Support Art and Politics
A fundraiser to support the completion of the Truth is Beauty project and the re-election campaign of Alex Rosenthal to the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee in June 2012 happens Friday, April 6, at Project One starting at 7pm.
Photo Exhibition Documents Life in Japan’s Tohoku region
It’s been a little over a year since the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Japan, killing thousands of people, causing billions of dollars in damage and displacing a substantial number of residents from their homes.
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