The 153-year-old California Historical Society is winding down operations in San Francisco and is slated to transfer its vast ...

The Amy Sherald SFMOMA show is the artist's largest to date, featuring her Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor paintings.

Ray Bandar's "Bone Palace" spanned thousands of skulls he stashed in the basement of his Miraloma Park home. The collection ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to announce the acquisition of “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” (1984-85), a ...

Stepping into Fraenkel Gallery to see "Painting the Town,” the new photo series by Carrie Mae Weems, I had a moment of confusion. Was I looking at an abstract expressionist painting by Mark Rothko ...

From live performances and cultural demonstrations to conversations with artists and plenty of vendor markets, The Examiner ...

When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in seclusion.

When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in seclusion. In the case ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we ...

The San Francisco General Hospital Foundation (SFGHF) has announced that 22 artists have been selected to participate in the ...