Capturing battle over graffiti

Chris Brennan's photos in his new series, "No Art," are not about eradicating street art. And they're not about giving graffiti artists carte blanche to do whatever they want, either.

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."

Art Features

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.

Art Reviews

Echoes of India

The paintings on paper of Alexander Gorlizki at Berggruen combine inventiveness and tight control.

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.
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