From 1930s clandestine Mattachine Society meetings to the June 12 Castro candlelight vigil honoring the victims of the Orlando massacre, the 125 images in the new photography exhibit at the Harvey Milk Photo Center are a stunning chronicle.
Since the re-opening of SFMOMA has already garnered so much press, we thought we'd read and review the new accompanying catalog, in which there is both scholarship and art-loving glee on display.
After a three-year modern art version of perpetual winter, the $305 million Snohetta-designed museum finally threw open its doors on May 14 to sell-out crowds.
"What do butches look like today?" That was the question photographer Meg Allen says she set out to answer when she first began photographing Bay Area butches five years ago.
Grace Jones was bending gender identity for her own purposes and playing with extreme fashion and multiple personae before Lady Gaga got her groove and her meat dress.
Pressies from around the world and down the block toured the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) last week, set to open to the public on May 14.
John Waters, best known for creating trashy and outrageous films, is the curator of "Home Improvements," the inaugural exhibit at FraenkelLAB, a gallery opening next week in Hayes Valley.
Eagle-eyed readers who have been following Besties coverage in Arts & Culture over the years will have noticed that many of the winners in various categories have been previous awardees as well.
With artists and cultural institutions struggling to afford to live and do business in San Francisco, Cultural Affairs Director Tom DeCaigny is helming City Hall's efforts to bolster the local arts community.
The museum's overview is the first major retrospective survey of the life and career of this glamorous tastemaker who hobnobbed with Norman Mailer, the Clintons and the Rothschilds, flamenco dancers, opera singers and bullfighters.
"Stone's Throw" by art historian, critic and curator David Deitcher (Secretary Press) is an appreciation of the work of the gay late-20th-century artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died 20 years ago of AIDS complications.
Bruce Davidson may be the most influential photographer of the last 50 years you've never heard of. A small, intense exhibition now on view in a single gallery at the de Young Museum offers a taste of why he's widely admired.
