"Bruce Conner: It's All True," is the first, and certainly most multi-faceted, comprehensive survey of the prodigious 60-year output of this Bay Area iconoclast.
A retrospective has the ability to map the arc of an artist's career, its unifying and diverging themes, but it's unlikely that it's an artist's intention to have his or her life's work shown en masse.
According to some scholars, the "Ramayana" is the greatest story never told in the West. A crash course in the legend can now be had courtesy of the Asian Art Museum's newest exhibition.
"Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now," the second photography show to open at SFMOMA's Pritzker Center for Photography in the last two weeks, is a tsunami of images.
If you've never heard of the 17th-century French painters the Brothers Le Nain, you're not alone. That could be somewhat alleviated by a new exhibition at the Legion of Honor.
The New York Times has opined that the singular creations of Nick Cave "fall squarely under the heading of 'Must Be Seen to Be Believed,'" a description that certainly applies to the gay Chicago-based artist's "Soundsuits."
There has been a reshuffling of the deck as far as Bay Area galleries are concerned, especially in the city, where quite a few have moved from downtown and created art hubs in less centralized, more affordable locations.
Whether you're looking to journey back to 17th-century France or are a thwarted astronaut yearning to defy gravity and rocket to the new frontier, local museums can take you there this fall. And away we go!
Max Hollein, the new director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is outgoing and forward-thinking, brimming with confidence and an optimistic can-do attitude -- qualities he'll need.
Fantastical gay men are, politely speaking, "exercising their virilities" at the GLBT History Museum, though there's nothing polite about the sexually explicit imagery and full-frontal nudity on uninhibited display.
They've brought their glowingly queer presence to Burning Man, to nightclubs around the Bay Area, and to faerie gatherings in the countryside. The fluorescent flair of the Comfort & Joy community engages at the National AIDS Memorial Grove.
"Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition," the first comprehensive retrospective of the filmmaker's life and work, opened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum last week.
