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Sep 11, 2019
High Tech, High Touch
The Body Electric, an exhibit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts through January 2020, is striking in its high-tech/high-touch duality.
Contemporary artists work with the mediums and tools of the times: screens, video, film, photos, digital and...
Sep 11, 2019
Close to the Bone — and Close to Readers
Twenty years ago, 22 authors assembled at the band shell in Golden Gate Park for the birth of a literary event then known as Litstock. "It was foggy and freezing and just amazing," cofounder Jane Ganahl remembers....
Sep 11, 2019
Fusing Imagery, Music and Words
A grand exercise in communion. A daring exploration of identity and beauty through music, words, images and videos. A challenging, confounding multidisciplinary theatrical work. These phrases and more apply to Triptych.
Arriving in a Cal Performances co-commission, the...
Sep 11, 2019
Public Art That Celebrates Nature
A blade of eelgrass in its bed in the San Francisco Bay is unspectacular. But eelgrass beds are vital to the health of the whole bay, providing safe spawning places for fish, harboring the small creatures the...
Sep 11, 2019
Speaking to the Times
If you haven't been to the symphony hall lately, you might be surprised to find how much things have changed. Today's music directors are finding innovative ways to make the music speak to our times — and...
Sep 11, 2019
Fall Arts Picks
Art, BART, and the WWE
Self-taught artist Luis Estrada lives around the corner from the newly redesigned Richmond Main Street/Richmond Visitor Center, right next to the BART station. Since 2004, he's been creating paintings at the city's NIAD...
Sep 5, 2018
The Soiled Dove Promises a Raunchy Good Time Under a Giant Tent
A 12,000-square-foot circus tent is coming to downtown Oakland. That's not a punchline — this is the new home of the Soiled Dove, an immersive, dinner-theater experience complete with...
