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What's the Future of the Many Cesar Chavez Murals in San Francisco? | KQED

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fromSan Jose Spotlight
3 weeks ago

San Jose prepares to strip public tributes to Cesar Chavez - San Jose Spotlight

San Jose plans to remove Cesar Chavez's name and likeness from public properties following allegations of sexual abuse against him.
Mission District
fromThe Atlantic
7 hours ago

Thinking Beyond 'The Man on the Plinth'

Cesar Chavez's legacy is being reevaluated due to serious allegations of sexual abuse, leading to the removal of his memorials and a shift in public perception.
Mission District
fromKqed
1 day ago

What's the Future of the Many Cesar Chavez Murals in San Francisco? | KQED

Public sentiment is shifting against murals of Cesar Chavez due to recent abuse allegations, leading to calls for their removal.
Mission District
fromSan Jose Spotlight
3 weeks ago

San Jose prepares to strip public tributes to Cesar Chavez - San Jose Spotlight

San Jose plans to remove Cesar Chavez's name and likeness from public properties following allegations of sexual abuse against him.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father

Criselda Vasquez's father was detained by ICE, prompting a GoFundMe campaign to support his legal fees and lost wages.
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fromAnOther
7 hours ago

This Book Chronicles the Compelling Love Story of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

The biography explores the intertwined lives and artistic journeys of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, highlighting their relationship's impact on their work.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
6 days ago

Remembering Steven Oshatz: "Marking the contours" * Oregon ArtsWatch

Oshatz worked on a monumental scale to represent underwater scenes, creating a full stage silk backdrop. He also designed hand painted silk waves that dancers moved across the stage.
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6 days ago

"Four Artists Talk" Documenting Hunters Point Shipyard (SF)

The exhibit 'Echoes of Parcel G' responds to the demolition of historic buildings at Hunters Point Shipyard, highlighting artists' fight for preservation.
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 hours ago

They accomplished so much, even as they were dying': the groundbreaking gay art of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

The Wonderful World That Almost Was chronicles the lives and friendship of artists Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, highlighting their contributions before and during the AIDS crisis.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Steve DiBenedetto's Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

Steve DiBenedetto's paintings serve as a functional structure to help viewers navigate collective trauma.
History
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Commentary: From Columbus to Chavez: L.A.'s disappearing, disfigured and displaced statues

Statues in Los Angeles are frequently vandalized, stolen, or removed, reflecting changing perceptions of historical figures.
#art
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fromArtnet News
1 day ago

The Untold Story of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek's Intimate-and Complex-Bond

Peter Hujar and Paul Thek's relationship profoundly influenced their art and lives, marked by intimacy and eventual rupture.
Photography
fromBOOOOOOOM!
6 days ago

"You can't enter the same river twice" by Photographer Francisco Gonzalez Camacho

Francisco Gonzalez Camacho's work explores impermanence and transformation through photography and graphic printing methods.
SF LGBT
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2 weeks ago

Luis Salgado: It's an honor to be a Hispanic director telling the story of US independence'

Luis Salgado's version of 1776 reinterprets American history, highlighting the contradictions of freedom and the rights of enslaved people.
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 weeks ago

Video: The Aching Power of Abraham Vazquez

Abraham Vazquez has this lusty, powerful, aching voice. This song is about loss, and you feel it with every inch of intensity that he's performing.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Painting With Blood: Who Does It and Who Collects It

Blood is used as a medium in contemporary art, challenging traditional boundaries of artistic practice.
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fromThe Nation
1 week ago

Alejandro Cartagena's Mexico in Flux

Photographs capture the transformation of landscapes and suburban growth, reflecting themes of isolation and environmental change.
#cesar-chavez-allegations
California
fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago

Cesar Chavez's name is on buildings, parks, roads and calendars. Some are demanding change

California officials are reconsidering how to memorialize Cesar Chavez following new sexual abuse allegations, with some proposing to rename tributes to focus on the farmworker movement instead.
Mission District
fromABC7 San Francisco
3 weeks ago

Mural of Cesar Chavez painted over at well-known SF home after allegations of sexual abuse

A Cesar Chavez mural in San Francisco's Mission District was painted over following allegations of sexual abuse against the labor leader documented in a New York Times investigation.
Arts
fromArtnet News
4 days ago

Scott Nichols on His Lasting Love for Iconic California Photographers

Scott Nichols Gallery specializes in fine art photography, focusing on Group f.64 and notable photographers, now located in Sonoma, California.
#lowrider-culture
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4 weeks ago
San Francisco

For Lowriders in San Francisco, It's Not Just a Stamp - It's Respect at the Federal Level | KQED

San Francisco
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4 weeks ago

For Lowriders in San Francisco, It's Not Just a Stamp - It's Respect at the Federal Level | KQED

The USPS unveiled new lowrider stamps in San Francisco, celebrating a cultural tradition rooted in Bay Area communities while acknowledging ongoing struggles against immigration enforcement and criminalization.
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fromABC7 San Francisco
4 weeks ago

After decades of being criminalized, lowriders get government's stamp of approval

The U.S. Postal Service honored lowrider culture with a stamp series, recognizing a Mexican American and Chicano artistic tradition that transformed ordinary cars into customized vehicles despite decades of police harassment and discriminatory cruising bans.
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

David Novros's Portable Murals

Seeing the Alhambra in Granada was an extraordinary experience for me. It was the first time that I understood painting as something other than an object hanging on a wall. I thought that paintings could be in a fixed place, made for that place, made for the light of the place, experienced kinesthetically.
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fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - An Interview with Surreal Salon 18 Winner, River Reishi

River Reishi's winning piece, Surface Tension, explores the threshold between two realms through a figure emerging from dark water.
Arts
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5 days ago

Sara Flores, the Peruvian Indigenous artist bringing Amazonian traditions into contemporary art

Kene patterns of the Shipibo-Conibo people reflect their worldview and will be showcased at the Venice Biennale by artist Sara Flores.
Arts
fromThe Atlantic
5 days ago

The Art of the (New) Deal

Art and architecture were used by the New Deal to communicate political ideas and reshape the social contract in America.
fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

Jasper Johns Keeps Looking

Jasper Johns seemed to reject the tortured, in-the-moment 'I' of Abstract Expressionism, ironically commenting on the heroism and spontaneity associated with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning in his early work.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

50 Years of Chicano Photography

Dolores Huerta's 1974 rally photo captures her in a United Farmworkers sweater vest, symbolizing activism and cultural identity, featured in 'Chicano Camera Culture.'
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Mission District
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3 weeks ago

Free Chinatown Mural Tour: Art + Culture Experience (SF)

The CCSC Mural Project offers a free guided walking tour of Chinatown's murals combined with community service, cultural experiences, and local food tastings.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

LA Artists Honor Dolores Huerta's Defiant Spirit

Over 30 Los Angeles artists celebrate Dolores Huerta's legacy in an exhibition honoring her fight for workers' rights on her 96th birthday.
Miscellaneous
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

'My paintings are always really kitchen sink, everything's thrown into them': Christina Quarles on her first solo show in Los Angeles

Christina Quarles creates fluid, elastic paintings exploring bodily vulnerability through layered acrylic and digital techniques, with recent work becoming more untethered following personal trauma from the Eaton fire.
Mission District
fromMission Local
1 month ago

Miles apart, they painted the same mural - one inside San Quentin, one in San Francisco

Incarcerated individuals at San Quentin created SkunkWorks to transform the prison environment through colorful murals and community initiatives that improve sensory conditions and foster leadership.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
32 years ago

Golden Statement : The Arts and Crafts movement from the turn of the century gave us a distinct design identity, and the style has gained favor in recent years. The Laguna Beach house of the Eliel family reflects this California heritage.

Early California design featured Craftsman bungalows and regional styles adapted to the climate, but few authentic examples remain; one Laguna Beach home deliberately revives these original California Arts and Crafts principles.
Miscellaneous
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - David Salle "My Frankenstein" @ Spruth Magers, Los Angeles

David Salle integrates AI-generated imagery with traditional painting techniques, using machine learning models trained on his own work as new visual "givens" to respond to creatively.
Film
fromMission Local
2 months ago

S.F. poet Alejandro Murguia stars in new documentary, and the Mission gets its close-up

Keeper of the Fire documents Alejandro Murguía and the Mission District's cultural, poetic resistance to anti-immigrant rhetoric and efforts to impose a single national culture.
US politics
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Sorry MAGA, Turns Out People Still Like 'Woke' Art

Mainstream entertainment achieved major success with diverse, politically conscious projects that became cultural phenomena despite political and corporate pushback against DEI.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Israeli Artist's Show in Mexico City Closes After Antisemitic Harassment | Artnet News

A Mexico City gallery closed an exhibition by Amir Fattal due to vandalism and antisemitic graffiti amid rising anti-Jewish discrimination.
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2 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Sophia Huitema "Prussian Blue" @ Harper's Apartment

The visual and chemical properties of the pigment Prussian Blue function as a metaphorical anchor, tying together a cast of watchful female figures within Huitema's hazy, dreamlike worlds.
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2 months ago
California

Aztec mural designed to protect San Jose firefighters - San Jose Spotlight

Metal murals of Aztec rain god Tlaloc adorn San Jose Fire Station 8 to symbolically protect firefighters and honor indigenous heritage.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago
Arts

'horizons' at perrotin LA to show JR's california works from prison yards to border wall

JR's 'Horizons' exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles showcases large-scale photographic artworks created across California, transforming public spaces by placing enlarged portraits of individuals and communities onto architectural and landscape surfaces.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

'horizons' at perrotin LA to show JR's california works from prison yards to border wall

JR's 'Horizons' exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles showcases large-scale photographic artworks created across California, transforming public spaces by placing enlarged portraits of individuals and communities onto architectural and landscape surfaces.
Arts
fromColossal
3 weeks ago

'Let Us Gather In a Flourishing Way' Convenes 58 Artists to Survey Contemporary Latinx Painting

Let Us Gather In a Flourishing Way showcases contemporary Latinx painting through diverse artists and themes, emphasizing community and cultural convergence.
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1 month ago

Anahuac rises on Solano

She has her own house now, the whole American Dream, and it's just crazy from where she came from. Cooking has always been her passion, and it's just super nice to see where she's at now. When her parents went to work, she would always cook for everybody at home in Mexico.
Mission District
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fromArtforum
3 weeks ago

A Hard Sell: on Mexican art in the age of austerity

Mexico's Fourth Transformation government has drastically cut arts funding and framed contemporary art as elitist, forcing private initiatives to sustain public cultural institutions.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour

A new monograph repositions Armenian-Lebanese painter Haroutiun Galentz as a cosmopolitan modernist whose work transcends national boundaries and demands cross-border interpretation.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

'We're the Tijuana of the tent': non-profit Ambos's stand at Frieze Los Angeles is relocated

We were supposed to be Frieze's special guests. And we feel like we're being censored, racially profiled and discriminated against. Having worked with the fair for five years, she says she will not continue beyond this weekend.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Judy Baca Denies Misusing $5M Grant for Iconic LA Mural

According to a new report from the LA Times, 10 former employees of Baca's nonprofit, the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), allege that she misused funds from a $5 million Mellon Foundation grant in 2021. The funding was specifically to be administered over three years for the expansion of "The Great Wall" mural, a portion of which went on view at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in Los Angeles last Saturday, February 20.
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fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Judith F. Baca: Great Wall of Los Angeles: The 1970s- A Decade of Defiance and Dreams @ Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles

The Great Wall of Los Angeles expands to depict 1970s Indigenous reclamation, prison and campus uprisings, Chicano antiwar protests, and art's role in testimony.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Ayelet Gal-On presents layered white-dress paintings conveying wind and light; San Mateo County Libraries seeks a Maker in Residence for a six-month STEAM residency.
Arts
fromColossal
2 months ago

Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds

Martin Wittfooth paints surreal flora-and-fauna scenes that probe interconnection, community, and nature's endurance through enigmatic compositions.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

This Is Not My LA Art World

We're just a week away from Frieze LA, when East Coast dealers and local artists alike descend upon the Santa Monica Airport, but this isn't Renée Reizman's first rodeo. Since the critic and artist moved to the area almost 15 years ago, she's witnessed blue-chip New York galleries set up shop and sideline the irreverent, DIY spaces that shape the local art scene. Without these spaces, Reizman writes, she would not have discovered what art can be outside of the white cube.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Ayelet Gal-On's layered textured paintings of white dresses capture wind and light; her solo exhibition runs March 3–29 at Gallery 9 in Los Altos.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

5 Cultural Destinations That Tell the Story of Los Angeles | Artnet News

Los Angeles museums showcase ambitious art institutions that extend beyond decoration, featuring innovative architecture and collections supporting local artists and ecological consciousness.
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fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Sayre Gomez "Precious Moments" @ David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

Sayre Gomez's Precious Moments presents photorealistic paintings, sculpture, and video exploring Los Angeles, nostalgia, youth fetishization, late capitalism, and built environments shaping memory.
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Artist Ayelet Gal-On does not just paint; she builds, layering oil, acrylic and plaster on canvas. Gal-On's signature subjects for "Taken by the Wind, Swept by the Light," her upcoming solo exhibition at Gallery 9 in Los Altos, are white dresses that appear to hang on a line, defying the stillness of the canvas. "I love the process of playing with color," says the artist.
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fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Israel Campos "Echoes" @ Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles

These paintings reveal the layers of history that undergird modern Los Angeles. Yaanga Lies Under the 101 imagines the city's earliest Tongva inhabitants as they made their home on the land that, in the modern day, runs beneath the Hollywood Freeway. Campos's process mimics this archaeological layering: each canvas begins with a screenprinted underlayer that is then painted over in acrylic, and then once again layered with screenprinted details.
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fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Oscar Murillo: "el pozo de agua" @ kurimanzutto, Mexico City

OSCAR MURILLO (b. 1986, La Paila, Colombia) has developed a multifaceted and challenging practice that spans painting, collaborative projects, video, sound and installation. Through each body of work, the artist probes ideas of collectivity and shared culture, demonstrating a commitment to the power of material presence alongside complex meditations on contemporary society. A focus on the social dimension that sits on the border between performance and events is also central to Murillo's practice.
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fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Betye Saar

Betye Saar, a prolific Los Angeles artist nearing 100, continues to create assemblage work that confronts racial injustice and celebrates African American resilience while exhibiting globally.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Keeping a Critical Eye on the Art World With Damien Davis

Damien Davis will address systemic inequities in the art market and propose actionable strategies for a more equitable, transparent art ecosystem.
Arts
from48 hills
1 month ago

A zap of Latine abstraction in 'Rebel Forms' - 48 hills

Ana Teresa Fernández's Coatl physically and conceptually bridges walls, using metallic glyphs and neon elements to evoke Aztec serpent imagery, nostalgia, and abstraction.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Dark Humor Decals For Everyday Absurdity: Amazing Acrylic Paintings by Javier Mayoral

Handcrafted Artful Embroideries of Everyday Products by Alicja Kozowska Well of Eternity: Stunning Sci-Fi Concept Artworks of Sung Choi Traveller's Joy The Key To The Countryside Beautiful Shell Adverts From The Mid-1950s These Animal Illustrations Accurately Express Our Monday Blues And Friday Feels Dark, Surreal And Moody Photo Works By Simon Kerola Artist Replaces Jurassic Park Dinosaurs With Those From The Show Dinosaurs "Deathmask Divine": The Superb Dark Paintings of Bahrull Marta
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Lotty Rosenfeld Weaponized the Line

Lotty Rosenfeld used repeated minor interventions—transforming traffic markings into crosses—to visibly tally state violence and destabilize authoritarian public space.
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