Messenger of many truths

Multilayered images, wordplay and seriocomic metaphysical musings make artist William T. Wiley's world marvelous and mysterious.

For the love of celebrities

"National Velvet" shows why critics concur that Andy Warhol did his best work in the early '60s: All his obsessions stand exposed here.

'Architecture of absence'

German photographer Candida Höfer has been working on the "Zoologischer Gärten" series, set in the zoos of Europe, since the 1990s.

Blending tech, artistic creativity

In S.F., there's a group of people exploring the intersection of programming, politics and art with their new digital Bauhaus: Gray Area.

Art Features

'Golden era' photographer

His work being shown at UC Berkeley, 86-year-old French photographer Marc Riboud talks about five of his most important photos.

The space between Victorians

The exhibit "The Urban Unseen" brings together architects and artists to examine the spaces between San Francisco's famous houses.

Reviving 'Defenestration'

One of S.F.'s most noticed works of public art, Brian Goggin's "Defenestration" (1997), has begun to show its age.

Art and math add up

While art and math may seem strange bedfellows, the two combine to form the basis of Owen Schuh's striking new show, "Pythagorean Nightmare."

Deeply sensual, wispily ethereal

Patricia Tobacco Forrester's "Realism Crossing Into Fantasy" blurs the lines between imagined topographies and actual ones.

From cardboard to art

Ann Weber relies on a $25 Arrow P-22 stapler, a box cutter, shellac and loads of cardboard pulled from trash bins to create her sculptures.

Art Reviews

Art springs from actions

Trisha Brown's show at Mills encapsulates the idea that arts are products of behavior, rather than of subjectivity or creative invention.

An intense engagement

If anyone merits the description "self-taught artist," it's James Castle.

Strange magic

No survey of Wayne Thiebaud's art has underlined his sense of humor as does "Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting."
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