San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
A dozen art events to feast your eyes on
The Bay Area’s visual arts schedule isn’t slowing down in 2024. The year begins with a newly official San Francisco Art Week anchored by Fog Design + Art fair and will close with a centenary celebration of the Legion of Honor Museum.
Here are some of the most anticipated art happenings to look forward to in 2024.
San Francisco Art Week & Fog Design + Art
This January, San Francisco Art Week becomes an official brand with a centralized schedule and group of participating arts institutions spanning the Bay Area. The annual Fog Design + Art fair, which has long anchored that week, also returns with a brand new program, Fog Focus, highlighting emerging artists and galleries.
San Francisco Art Week: Jan. 13-21. Throughout the Bay Area. www.sfartweek.com
Fog Design + Art and Fog Focus: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Jan. 18-20; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 21. $30 in advance, $35 at door. Fort Mason Pier 2 and Pier 3, 2 Marina Blvd., S.F. www.fog fair.com
De Young Museum
Among the exhibitions coming to the de Young in 2024 is the long-anticipated costume show “Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style” highlighting prominent local fashion collectors and their gifts to the museum. Making its debut in January, the show plans to highlight designers like Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen and Rodarte, featuring a virtual, interactive dressing room by Snap AR.
In February, “Lee Mingwei: Rituals of Care” will be the first major U.S. exhibition for the Taiwanese artist, who works in participatory mixed media and performance contexts. A new performance by the artist
“Chaque souffle une danse,” commissioned by the museum, will have its debut performances presented by and at the Minnesota Street Project Foundation on April 5-21.
“Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style”: Jan. 20-Aug. 11.
“Lee Mingwei: Rituals of Care”: Feb 17-July 7.
9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. TuesdaySunday. $15-$30. De Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, S.F. 415-750-3600. https:// deyoung.famsf.org
Legion of Honor
The museum plans to kick off its 100th anniversary with a 12-month centennial celebration on Armistice Day on Nov. 11. Among the campaigns already in the works are plans to acquire 100 works to celebrate 100 years.
Centennial Celebration: Nov. 11. Details to be announced. Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave., S.F. 415-750-3600.
www.famsf.org
San Jose Museum of Art
“Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures” will be the first major survey of the work of the Los Angeles photographer and artist known for exploring themes of migration, labor, gender, Mexican American identity and the capabilities of photography itself.
“Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures”: 4-9 p.m. Thursday. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. June 7-Sept. 22. $8-$10. San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St., San Jose. 408271-6840. www.sjmusart.org
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The first major West Coast exhibition by South African visual activist Zanele Muholi, “Eye Me” will open in January, highlighting Muholi’s photos of Black queer communities.
“Creative Growth: The House
That Art Built” will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Creative Growth, an Oakland art center for the developmentally disabled, and include a new Bay Area Walls mural commission by William Scott in April.
A new installation by Stockton-born artist Kara Walker is slated to open in July on the museum’s first floor in the free Roberts Family Gallery (details of which are under wraps).
“Zanele Muholi: Eye Me”: Jan. 18-Aug. 11.
“Creative Growth: The House That Art Built”: April 6-Oct. 6.
Kara Walker in the Roberts Family Gallery: July 4. Free.
1-8 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Monday. $19-$25. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., S.F. 415-357-4000. www.sfmoma.org
Asian Art Museum
The Asian Art Museum opens the year with a contemporary acquisitions show “Into
View: New Voices, New Stories” in January, featuring work by Bay Area artists Michael Jang, Barry McGee, Cathy Lu, Stephanie Syjuco, Rupy C. Tut and Jenifer K Wofford.
Originally scheduled for 2022, “Phoenix Kingdoms: The Last Splendor of China’s Bronze Age,” opening in April, will present artifacts from two mysterious kingdoms that thrived early in China’s Bronze Age before they were conquered and written out of official histories.
“Into View: New Voices, New Stories”: Jan. 19 through the fall.
“Phoenix Kingdoms: The Last Splendor of China’s Bronze Age”: April 19-July 22.
1-8 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Monday. $20 general. Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., S.F. www.asianart.org
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco
Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman gets her largest solo museum exhibition to date with a show that will premiere new large-scale installations and address issues like the refugee experience, the colonial gaze, and pushing against erasure.
In his first institutional solo exhibition, “Cost of Living,” Bay Area artist Saif Azzuz will construct a mixed-media installation using materials associated with gentrification such as construction fencing, semiprivate mesh, and barbed wire that will explore the shifting realities of shelter in the Bay Area.
“Look Me in the Eyes: Hayv Kahraman”: Jan. 16-April 21.
“Cost of Living: Saif Azzuz”: Jan.16-April 21.
Noon-5 p.m. Wednesday; noon-7 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Free. Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, 901 Minnesota St., S.F. www.icasanfrancisco.org
Cantor Arts Center
Curated by Cantor Director
Veronica Roberts, originally for the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, “Day Jobs” will examine the impact of the work required for financial sustenance on the visual arts. Featuring the work of 36 American artists, this second iteration of the exhibition now features a larger selection of works by California artists, including Margaret Kilgallen, Jay Lynn Gomez, Barbara Kruger, Ahree Lee, Jim Campbell, Narsiso Martinez and Sandy Rodriguez.
“Day Jobs”: March 6-July 21. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. WednesdaySunday. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Palo Alto. 650-723-4177. https://museum.stanford.edu
Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive
In the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive’s major spring show, “A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration,” 12 contemporary artists — including Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Theaster Gates Jr. and Carrie Mae Weems — present specially commissioned pieces responding to the ongoing reverberations of Black Americans from the South through the country.
“A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration”:
April 13-Sept. 22.
11 a.m.-7 p.m. WednesdaySunday. $10-$14. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St., Berkeley. 510-642-0808. www.bampfa.org
Museum of Craft and Design
Guest-curated by Virginia San Fratello and Eleanor Pries, “Mr. Roboto” will showcase a series of design activities and experiments that were created to test the creative possibilities of human collaboration with robots. This timely exhibition will include media spanning calligraphy, photography, 3Dlight painting, 3D-printing and stop-motion animation.
“Mr. Roboto”: Feb. 24-June 30. 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. WednesdaySaturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. $10. Museum of Craft and Design, 2569 Third St., S.F. 415-773-0303. www.sfmcd.org
Minnesota Street Project Foundation
In her first U.S. exhibition, media artist Rohini Devasher will present the San Francisco chapter of her three-country exhibition “One Hundred Thousand Suns” at the Minnesota Street Project Foundation in partnership with Gallery Wendi Norris. The work chronicles a decade of her practice as an eclipse follower and astronomer and includes a four-channel video, large-scale tapestry installation and copper plate paintings.
“One Hundred Thousand Suns”: Jan. 16-March 24. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday; noon-7 p.m. Friday-Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Free. Minnesota Street Project Foundation, 1201 Minnesota St., S.F. https:// minnesotastreetproject.org
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis
This first mid-career solo West Coast museum exhibition of paintings by UC Davis Professor of Art, Shiva Ahmadi, focuses on the female figure and her exploration of alterative world where women have agency beyond the conventional aesthetic and moral binaries.
“Shiva Ahmadi: Strands of Resilience”: Jan. 28-May 6. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Monday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. SaturdaySunday. Free. Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. 254 Old Davis Road, Davis. 530-752-8500. https://manettishremmuseum.ucdavis.edu
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