Art notes: Voss Gallery presents “The Essentials” a group show
Ashley Voss, one of several new gallery owners in the Mission, opened her first exhibition of the...
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Swann’s Way to go: San Francisco’s Nathalie Vanderlinden completes epic Proustian reading challenge
Some of you may recall our Dec. 2 article about Nathalie Vanderlinden, the San Francisco chef who,...
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“Love in the Time of Piñatas” at ZSpace, an uncompromising and intimate exploration of queer immigrant identity
Despite all the glitter, dancing and chiseled, half-nude men, Love in the Time of Piñatas,...
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‘All We’ve Got’ film celebrates the LGBTQ women-centered spaces still thriving
If you mourned the 2015 closing of The Lexington, one of the last lesbian bars in the city, but...
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‘The Grid,’ a new tool to connect artists and technology stakeholders, set to be unveiled at Gray Area on Wednesday
A new initiative to map out and analyze the intersections of art and technology in the Bay Area is...
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New mural dedicated to victims of police shootings to be unveiled on Sunday
Artists working on the northeast corner of 24th and Capp Streets are readying themselves for a Sunday unveiling of the Mission’s newest mural – an expansive, two-story piece depicting some of the victims of police and immigration violence. It is dedicated to those victims.
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Sirron Norris exhibit to open on Saturday — his first in seven years
What started as a proposal from a real estate agent turned into a two-month experiment for Sirron...
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Dance Mission celebrates 20 years of dancing and teaching
As you exit the BART station at 24th & Mission, you may faintly hear a few musical notes...
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Artists ready themselves for open studios — a chance to gain more exposure
This year’s San Francisco Open Studios is set to kick off in the Mission District on the weekend...
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Comically tiny comic book shop opening up in the Mission
Hella Novella will feature comic books from female and minority artists Her space is small —...
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An immigrant Latina’s experience is transformed into a high-tech dance show
When she was just 25 years old, Mabel Valdiviezo had to make one of the most difficult choices of her life: leave her native Peru or stay and risk her life during a time of political repression.
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‘Those Who Wander’ explores the world of ‘Lost Street Kids’
‘Those Who Wander’ begins with a grisly murder, but expands into the lives of...
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Despite fears of an end to the Mission art scene, an influx of galleries indicates a boom
Despite fears that rent hikes and the influx of the younger tech community would push out artists and diminish their core audience, galleries in the Mission and lower Potrero are popping up at a pace not seen for years.
Art spaces now number 37 compared to 27 in 2017 when Mission Local last did a count.
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El Rio bartender finds success in comic book world with ‘Unplugged and Unpopular’
The ideas for the novel took time to nail down. As a bartender, he noticed patrons at El Rio having fewer conversations and spending more time on their phones. One day, while scribbling away with his then-infant daughter sleeping on his chest, the idea for the book finally came to him.
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René Yañez’s son, Rio, exhibits father’s personal sketchbooks
Tucked into the corner of Thacher Art Gallery’s ‘Studio Misión: the Art Studio as Medium,’ sits an empty wooden work table and chair. Before his death at age 75 in May 2018, renowned Mission District artist René Yañez had planned for this gallery space, located on the University of San Francisco campus at 2130 Fulton Street, to be a workspace where he would create art to be displayed on the walls.
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If you’re a Bay Area artist, KQED needs your help
KQED’s award-winning series The Hustle has returned and is looking for artists interested in...
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18 Reasons: Parisian Farmers Market: Rabbit with Winter Produce
January 19 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Manny’s: Human Rights in Central America with Cristosal’s ED Noah Bullock
January 19 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
