“As a collection that’s interested in accessibility and letters, we look at one of the most democratic versions of letters that exists,” said Letterform’s Kate Long Stellar.

From a cooperative space that's been around since the 1970s to a newcomer with a bookstore, the city has a thriving gallery scene.

Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life examines how artists stay — or don’t — in an area with steep rents, scarce studio space, and a high cost of living

The inaugural exhibition at Minnesota Street Project Foundation’s new space features Richard Mosse's video installation on Amazon deforestation.

Dismantling Monoliths at SF Camerawork pits artists against the Western canon of photography.

Graphic designer George McCalman presents a book featuring 145 portraits of Black pioneers, including the celebrated and unsung.

For this year’s edition of the San Francisco festival, 16 Latina and Chinese women designed and hand-sewed flags that tell their story.

At San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Mobina Nouri took scissors to her own strands and invited others to do the same.

She has raised generations of Bay Area artists and changed the local landscape with her public artworks, colleagues tell Hyperallergic.

There’s something very funny — and unsettling — about Buffalohead's paintings of animals engaged in human situations.

An exhibition at San Francisco’s Letterform Archive highlights typography’s role in iconic social movements from the 1800s through the present.

Artists Heesoo Kwon and Trina Michelle Robinson make worlds in which their distant relatives can fill the fractures of memory.

The museum enlisted the help of Linda Bove, the first Deaf actor to be part of Sesame Street’s recurring cast, to help bring artworks from the collection to a Deaf audience.

Local artists and curators took issue with a New York Times report announcing the demise of the local art scene in light of the departure of two blue-chip galleries.

Dwan helped pave the way when women-owned galleries were not so easy to find, or run.

Wesaam Al-Badry, Rupy C. Tut, and Chelsea Ryoko Wong are among the artists whose work will be part of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor thanks to a $1M grant.

Oldenburg seduced viewers with his iconic, foam-filled “soft sculptures” and massive public artworks that made mundane objects suddenly magical.

“For years, I couldn’t show my work, I couldn’t get a gallery, and people in New York wouldn’t pay attention to me,” she says. “So I think I deserve it — just for not giving up if nothing else.”

At BAMPFA, Tongson’s paintings hang alongside works from the museum’s collection of traditional Chinese ink paintings.

At the California Historical Society, curator Erin Garcia contrasts how Chinese people were portrayed in the press with the dignified studio portraits taken in Chinatown.

A former restaurant and ballroom on the edge of the Pacific is filled with art responding to the climate crisis.

“They’ve been locked up in boxes and cabinets without having anyone to talk to and sing to them,” shares the tribal historical preservation officer of the Wiyot Tribe.

From a sea lion in Monterey swimming by an N-95 mask to a polar bear in Norway, snuggling down on a small iceberg for the night.

Erlin Geffrard’s bright mural celebrates his parents and the struggle of working-class people.

Mode Brut at the Museum of Craft and Design wants to change people’s perceptions of what fashion can be.

An exhibition at the San Francisco Opera House pairs the work of incarcerated artists with Beethoven's story of unjust imprisonment.

Hung Liu, an artist who “defied the stereotype that’s thrust on Asian women.”

Afro Hippie examines Huffman’s time at Berkeley and how it continues to influence him today.

Josué Rojas came from El Salvador as a toddler, and his family settled in the Mission.

A new project headed by Christy Chan is “unapologetically taking up a lot of space.”

Artists, art lovers, and employees expressed disbelief and outrage, saying the programs were ones that genuinely included the community.

The museum has 76 of Rivera’s works, and next summer, many will be on display when it hosts the show Diego Rivera’s America.

Dana King’s sculptures surround a plinth in San Francisco that formerly held a statue of Francis Scott Key, an anti-abolitionist.

“You turn inward because you’re focused on this new life that’s housed inside of you,” said Kimia Ferdowsi Kline.

WOMEN我們: From Her to Here features Asian diasporic LGBTQ+ artists from New York, the Bay Area, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Students and faculty describe the college as one-of-a-kind, citing the renowned book arts program and experimental music and dance departments.

"A Spirit of Disruption" hopes to “archive a new history,” said curator Leila Weefur.

The Asian Art Museum shares with Hyperallergic some of the short films featured in its forthcoming exhibition "After Hope: Videos of Resistance."

Marci Kwon got the idea for the initiative after creating a class she had always wanted to take but had never found in graduate school: one on Asian American art.

Barring Freedom uses art to engage people in different ways, so they can see the dynamics of racism.

Artist Rigo 23 was inspired to make the statue after seeing a self-portrait painted by Peltier in prison.

On the morning of September 9, Bay Area residents woke up to apocalyptic skies. Many photographers ventured out to capture the disturbing glow.

This Is What Democracy Looked Like by Alicia Yin Cheng is the first book of its kind to look at the history of ballot design.

“His bust does not belong in the entryway,” said the museum’s director in an event that launched a series of public programs around the legacy of Avery Brundage.

The Artist Power Center, created by the Yerba Center for the Arts, provides one-on-one guidance on applications and a community forum where artists can discuss subjects like health and wellness.

While museums across the country have chosen to lay off or furlough educators, at the Asian Art Museum the education department is busily at work.

On Washington’s birthday, artists, community and Native American leaders, curators, and more talked about why Victor Arnautoff’s “Life of Washington” murals should remain.

The painter and musician moved West in 1965 to attend the San Francisco Art Institute — the only desegregated art institute at the time. Currently featured in the traveling Soul of a Nation, he continues to make ambitious work.

At the California Historical Society, paintings of the state’s beautiful vistas are shown alongside archival materials revealing a more brutal history of displacement, discrimination, and murder.

The Exceptional Minds academy recently paired students up with mentors from Cartoon Network to give artists an opportunity to get feedback on their work. Three students open up about their experience.