Don't merely think big, think off the charts - that's the Frank Stella that comes through in the first comprehensive U.S. overview of the artist's prolific output in almost three decades.
Early on, self-taught photographer-filmmaker Danny Lyon said his goal was "to destroy Life magazine" by presenting powerful alternatives to the bland mainstream pictures and stories that permeated American mass media in the late 1950s.
"Bruce Conner: It's All True," is the first, and certainly most multi-faceted, comprehensive survey of the prodigious 60-year output of this Bay Area iconoclast.
A retrospective has the ability to map the arc of an artist's career, its unifying and diverging themes, but it's unlikely that it's an artist's intention to have his or her life's work shown en masse.
According to some scholars, the "Ramayana" is the greatest story never told in the West. A crash course in the legend can now be had courtesy of the Asian Art Museum's newest exhibition.
"Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now," the second photography show to open at SFMOMA's Pritzker Center for Photography in the last two weeks, is a tsunami of images.
If you've never heard of the 17th-century French painters the Brothers Le Nain, you're not alone. That could be somewhat alleviated by a new exhibition at the Legion of Honor.
The New York Times has opined that the singular creations of Nick Cave "fall squarely under the heading of 'Must Be Seen to Be Believed,'" a description that certainly applies to the gay Chicago-based artist's "Soundsuits."
There has been a reshuffling of the deck as far as Bay Area galleries are concerned, especially in the city, where quite a few have moved from downtown and created art hubs in less centralized, more affordable locations.
