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Pixar exhibit comes to Oakland
Getting the animation studio exhibition, through January 9, was not easy for the Oakland Museum of California. Photos
A persistent presence
"Hauntology," a mix of artworks crossing various genres, "evokes uncertainty, mystery, inexpressible fears, and unsatisfied longing."
Comics after the laughs
After 18 years of shooting stand-up in San Francisco, Dan Dion knows what doesn't work - a photo of a comic trying to be funny.
Photo flashback
SFMOMA's "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" is a re-creation of a pivotal 1975 exhibit in Rochester, N.Y.
Art that binds
"Unbound: A National Exhibition of Book Art" features works by book and visual artists who employ ceramics, printmaking and more.
Sneer with your beer?
Sid Vicious, Jello Bafra, Patti Smith, other punkers star in Larry Schorr's photo show at an S.F.'s Madrone art bar.
From trash to art
"Art at the Dump" is a retrospective of the past 20 years of the Recology San Francisco's artist-in-residence program.
Paris in Vancouver
Sometimes museums and their public just get lucky.
Illustrated, illuminated
Maira Kalman, who has illustrated for the New York Times and the New Yorker, talks about her show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Spray-can artist breaks rules
Pop odes to lost love, saucy vixens, weaponry, kittens and cougars, even the Transamerica Pyramid explode from Casey Gray's work.
Flights of fancy
The title "Local Treasures" fits the BAC exhibition not only because of what it contains, but because it applies to the soulful nonprofit institution itself.
A worthy adversary
Christopher Wool has something not even Warhol accomplished: He glamorized painting's conceptual side.
Provoking thought and surprise
"Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection" at SFMOMA displays the Gap family's collection, and the scale and impact is stunning.
Glimpses of wonderful works
"Impressionist Paris" offers an education in modern French painting that fewer Americans can afford to get by going abroad.
Ed Moses' push-and-pull
Like many painters in their 80s, Ed Moses undoubtedly has given some thought to the aftermath of his life and the afterlife of his work.
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Snapshots wrapped in Cold War mystery
The photography world has recently rediscovered the work of Czech eccentric...
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