SFMOMA and YBCA jointly stage a retrospective of the work of an experimental artist whose provocative works about sexual abuse prefigured #MeToo by nearly 50 years.
Jet Martinez’s calla lilies at 2001 Broadway in Oakland may be the art world’s biggest.
‘Kaleidoscope Eyes’ at Haines Gallery is like stepping into a dream state of heightened senses, while the augmented-reality exhibits at ‘Re-Engineering Humanity’ at 836M give patrons even more reality.
‘Early Rubens,’ at the Legion of Honor, shows a 12-year period in the Dutch master’s life that burst with bloody depravity.
Joshua Mays’ almost-10-story work stands above a BART entrance at 1700 Broadway at 17th Street, Oakland.
Articulations of abstraction, at Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape” at Ever Gold [Projects], “Once at Present: Contemporary Art of Bay Area Iranian Diaspora” at Minnesota Street Project, and “William T. Wiley: Sculpture, Eyes Wear Tug Odd,” at Hosfelt Gallery.
2928 Market St., by 30th Street and San Pablo Avenue, Oakland
Todd Hido’s unpeopled photographs reveal a kind of post-collapse, as much political as it is ecological.
762 Fulton St. (at Webster Street)
You know Mildred Howard’s art even if you don’t know it’s by her, and the septuagenarian artist’s work has only grown more urgent in the wake of her own displacement.
