Eagle-eyed readers who have been following Besties coverage in Arts & Culture over the years will have noticed that many of the winners in various categories have been previous awardees as well.
With artists and cultural institutions struggling to afford to live and do business in San Francisco, Cultural Affairs Director Tom DeCaigny is helming City Hall's efforts to bolster the local arts community.
The museum's overview is the first major retrospective survey of the life and career of this glamorous tastemaker who hobnobbed with Norman Mailer, the Clintons and the Rothschilds, flamenco dancers, opera singers and bullfighters.
"Stone's Throw" by art historian, critic and curator David Deitcher (Secretary Press) is an appreciation of the work of the gay late-20th-century artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died 20 years ago of AIDS complications.
Bruce Davidson may be the most influential photographer of the last 50 years you've never heard of. A small, intense exhibition now on view in a single gallery at the de Young Museum offers a taste of why he's widely admired.
Going to the exhibition "Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia" at the Legion of Honor is like visiting a beloved old friend; it's an antidote to Super Bowl fatigue or whatever ails you.
BAMPFA's new home is a 1939 UC Berkeley printing plant "repurposed" by Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects, who've integrated a curvilinear machine aesthetic and given the streamlined moderne, late Deco style a 21st-century panache.
The show, which inaugurates the opening of the San Francisco Arts Commission's expanded, newly renovated main gallery in the War Memorial Veterans Building, is focused on the body, fractured and transmuted into art.
The house, Ireland's residence for three decades until several years before his death in 2009, is possibly his greatest, most enduring achievement, and his legacy.
Get ready for an onslaught of new art complexes and renovated and expanded spaces in the first half of this brand new year, along with a plentitude of artworks that will fill them.
Thirty-three double exposures, quickie portraits, color photographs and a smattering of press photos, all of female subjects, are currently on view in "Vernacular Vixens: Found Images from the Robert E. Jackson Collection."
A week away, in Washington DC for familial holiday obligations, also meant a few happy afternoons spent amidst the bounty of our national art museums. An inveterate museumgoer, Out There can recommend the following exhibitions.
