Whether you're looking to journey back to 17th-century France or are a thwarted astronaut yearning to defy gravity and rocket to the new frontier, local museums can take you there this fall. And away we go!
Max Hollein, the new director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is outgoing and forward-thinking, brimming with confidence and an optimistic can-do attitude -- qualities he'll need.
Fantastical gay men are, politely speaking, "exercising their virilities" at the GLBT History Museum, though there's nothing polite about the sexually explicit imagery and full-frontal nudity on uninhibited display.
They've brought their glowingly queer presence to Burning Man, to nightclubs around the Bay Area, and to faerie gatherings in the countryside. The fluorescent flair of the Comfort & Joy community engages at the National AIDS Memorial Grove.
"Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition," the first comprehensive retrospective of the filmmaker's life and work, opened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum last week.
From 1930s clandestine Mattachine Society meetings to the June 12 Castro candlelight vigil honoring the victims of the Orlando massacre, the 125 images in the new photography exhibit at the Harvey Milk Photo Center are a stunning chronicle.
Since the re-opening of SFMOMA has already garnered so much press, we thought we'd read and review the new accompanying catalog, in which there is both scholarship and art-loving glee on display.
After a three-year modern art version of perpetual winter, the $305 million Snohetta-designed museum finally threw open its doors on May 14 to sell-out crowds.
"What do butches look like today?" That was the question photographer Meg Allen says she set out to answer when she first began photographing Bay Area butches five years ago.
Grace Jones was bending gender identity for her own purposes and playing with extreme fashion and multiple personae before Lady Gaga got her groove and her meat dress.
Pressies from around the world and down the block toured the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) last week, set to open to the public on May 14.
John Waters, best known for creating trashy and outrageous films, is the curator of "Home Improvements," the inaugural exhibit at FraenkelLAB, a gallery opening next week in Hayes Valley.
