Max Blue

For the last 50 years, San Francisco’s art community has gathered in living rooms and garages across the City for San Francisco Open Studios, an annual, monthlong event in the fall in which hundreds of local artists invite the public behind the scenes.

“We’re experiencing a renaissance of art and culture in the Bay Area,” Chelsea Ryoko Wong, one of the artists featured in the collection, said.

Fall feels like summer for San Franciscans, and The City’s art scene is heating up, too.

Pieter Hugo photographed Tenderloin residents in 2014; now they’re larger than life at Jonathan Carver Moore.

Why, our art critic wonders, don’t San Franciscans flock downtown for art the way they do for tech conferences?

Mildred Howard is up to something. The legendary Bay Area artist, who was born in San Francisco in 1945, has organized three concurrent exhibitions

Proposition proponents say Arts Commission is not some “big, bad boogeyman that needs to be cut.”

The intergenerational group show ‘Opening the Mountain’ sets the stage for a permanent move to San Rafael.

But it's not exactly an uncommon one in higher education.

When the art community bid adieu to the Wattis Institute 's decade-long home on Kansas Street earlier this year, I was heartbroken.