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Forum Follow-Up: John King Answers More Bay Area Design Questions
San Francisco's Shell Building, built in 1929, was one of many structures discussed during writer John King's visit to Forum. Photo: John King Last Friday, San Francisco Chronicle urban design writer...
View ArticlePhotographers Discover Beauty in BART
You may think of it as that thing that gets you to and from work every day, but others with cameras have seen something else in BART: magic in the way raindrops gather on a handrail, or a story in the...
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Photo Gallery: In Oakland Artists' Enclave, Residents Ponder Life With New...
By Kyung Jin Lee, Deborah Svoboda and Dan Brekke Artist's conception of the Brooklyn Basin development along the Oakland Estuary, south and east of downtown and Jack London Square. When he was in China...
View ArticleChor Boogie: ‘Don’t Call It Graffiti’
San Francisco artist Chor Boogie takes spray painting to a whole new level. In massive murals around the Bay Area and the world he combines the look and feel of street art with the imagery and...
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Oakland Artist Crafts Homes for Those Who Have None
Artist and designer Gregory Kloehn sits in the doorway of his latest tiny house, which he calls the Chuckwagon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED) Oakland artist and designer Gregory Kloehn was thrust into the...
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Latest to Be Displaced in San Francisco’s Tech Boom: Art Galleries
77 Geary Street, home of several art galleries displaced by a technology firm. (Google Maps)The impact of the technology business on soaring residential real estate prices in San Francisco has gotten...
View ArticleCakeland Moves to L.A.: An Exit Interview With Artist Scott Hove
Artist Scott Hove, a Bay Area native who has made a name for himself in the art world with his striking, cake-themed sculptures, is packing up his frosting and moving to Los Angeles. Last week Hove...
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Salvaged Beach Trash Becomes Art in Berkeley Resident’s Front Yard
By Tom Dalzell, Berkeleyside Third Buddha and other sculpture at 1118 Colusa Ave. (Catherine MacNeal/Berkeleyside) Colusa Avenue between Marin and Hopkins is not well-traveled, but people who have...
View ArticleBay Area Glitter Artist René Garcia Jr. Dead at 41
René Garcia Jr., local artist known for his dazzling glitter paintings of pop culture iconography, died of natural causes on May 8 while vacationing in Orlando, Fla. He was 41. Beach Picnic, 2011....
View ArticleChinese-Born Artist Ma Li Makes Treasure from Trash
In Ma Li’s hands, clear plastic bottles transform into suspended fields of jellyfish-like sculptures, and colored foam and clothes hangers resemble migrating flocks of birds. With references to Chinese...
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The Big Appetites Behind Orange County’s Burger Records
When I stop by the Burger Records store in Fullerton, founders Lee Rickard and Sean Bohrman are days from jetting off to France for Paris Fashion Week — guests of a well-known designer and Burger super...
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