What is art? Why does it matter? What does it mean to speak of its “history”? How and by whom is that history constructed? What does art have to do with power or desire? Is it a form of knowledge, or is it a way of world…

Lee Miller: Fearless is the first comprehensive survey of Miller's photographs in more than 25 years and gathers together the major episodes of her singular career.

The emergence of the Studio Glass Movement in 1962 shifted glass from a craft into a fine art. Since then, artists have explored traditional themes, genres, motifs, and aesthetics related to the human figure. Differing f…

MJ Torrecampo’s Cut the Fruit exhibition presents the artist's layered paintings, that investigate themes of family, belonging, and cultural identity by transforming everyday moments into psychologically complex narrativ…

Since the 1980s, photographer Phyllis Galembo has documented ceremonial dress and masquerade traditions in communities around the globe. Mexico Masks / Rituals shifted her focus to Mexico, introducing viewers to the coun…

The early decades of the twentieth century marked a decisive break in the history of art, as painters and sculptors...

AUG 29 - JAN 3Rose Sellery is a multidisciplinary, self-taught artist whose work navigates the charged terrain between beauty and brutality, fragility and strength, and tradition and rebellion. Through humor, irony, and…

Catharine Clark Gallery opens its Fall 2026 program with Sandow Birk: An Illustrated History of the Present, Three Decades of Pictures, Stories, and Other Histories . The exhibition is a survey of 35 years of work across…

The Balboa Theatre and Cinema SF Bay Present: A Double Feature with Sandow Birk In-Person Tickets: $15 - purchase here In collaboration with Sandow Birk: An Illustrated History of the Present, Three Decades of Pictures…

Explore Hulet Semāi (Two Skies) by Tariku Shiferaw, on view August 29–October 18, 2026, featuring abstract paintings exploring diasporic cosmology and mark-making.

In The Hedge of Halomancy, the artist duo Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser) combine archival material, moving image, poetry and music to reconstruct and reimagine the forgotten history of the Inl…

How did photography construct cultural memories of postwar America? Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role t…