The Future of SFAI
Hyperallergic | July 24, 2020
“After Securing $4M in Donations, San Francisco Art Institute Will Remain Operational”
SF News | July 24, 2020
“San Francisco Art Institute Resumes Degree Programs”
artnet news | July 23, 2020
“San Francisco Art Institute Has Reversed Its Plans to Wind Down Following a $4 Million Surge of Donations”
SFist | July 23, 2020
“San Francisco Art Institute Saved, Maybe, For Another School Year”
KQED | July 23, 2020
“Students Suffer Whiplash as SFAI Decides to Offer Classes After All”
SFweekly | July 23, 2020
“SFAI Announces Return of Degreed Classes”
Insider Higher Ed | July 23, 2020
“San Francisco Art Institute Reinstates Degree Programs”
The Art Newspaper | July 22, 2020
“San Francisco Art Institute says it is reinstating degree programmes”
SF Examiner | July 22, 2020
“SF Art Institute restores degree classes, seeks subtenant for Fort Mason campus”
SF Chronicle | July 22, 2020
“SF Art Institute reverses course, retains teachers, invites students to return”
Art Forum | April 28, 2020
“San Francisco Art Institute To Stay Open With Limited Academic Offerings”
Artsy | April 28, 2020
“The San Francisco Art Institute will remain open in a reduced capacity next academic year.”
Inside Higher Ed | April 28, 2020
“San Francisco Art Institute Will Remain Open, Board Says”
ARTnews | April 2, 2020
“In Open Letter, San Francisco Art Institute’s Potential Closure Is Mourned by Bay Area Scene”
Artnet | April 1, 2020
“‘I Fell in Love With Art There’: As the San Francisco Art Institute Closes, 5 Celebrated Artists Reflect on How the School Shaped Them”
Contemporary And (C&) | July 30, 2020
“Online Exhibition: Jefferson Pinder: Flash Point”
Datebook | June 11, 2020
Hyperalleric | May 20, 2020
"As San Francisco Art Institute Faces Potential Closure, Its MFA Show Might Be Its Last"
SF Examiner | May 19, 2020
Bay Area Reporter | January 28, 2020
Rashaad Newsome takes San Francisco
SF Chronicle | January 24, 2020
Don’t ask Rashaad Newsome to explain his art. It’s your job to understand it
Art Agenda Reviews | February 20, 2020
Rashaad Newsome's "To Be Real"
NBC Bay Area | December 14, 2019
1930s-Era Murals Found Under Painted Hallways at SFAI
SF Chronicle | October 2, 2019
Long-lost New Deal-era fresco at SFAI to be brought to light
The Art Newspaper | October 1, 2019
Grant will help restore two long-lost frescoes in San Francisco
KQED Arts | December 11, 2019
If the Millenium Tower Falls, Does it Make a Sound?
Hyperallergic | November 12, 2019
Drawing Attention to a Sinking High-Rise in San Francisco
The Architect’s Newspaper | November 11, 2019
Postcommodity amplifies sinking Millennium Tower in new audio installation
Art & Education | November 4, 2019
Postcommodity: The Point of Final Collapse
SFIst | October 24, 2019
Sound Art Installation Simulates the Sinking and Tilting of Millennium Tower
KQED Arts | November 11, 2019
The Millennium Tower Becomes Sound Art
The Art Newspaper | October 28, 2019
Postcommodity plays the soundtrack of destruction in San Francisco
Curbed SF | October 23, 2019
Sound art installation simulates sinking of Millennium Tower
SF Chronicle Datebook | February 22, 2019
“San Francisco Art Institute opens its Warhol trove of Polaroids, prints for first time”
SF Gate | February 25, 2019
“Free Andy Warhol exhibit, showcasing rarely seen Polaroids of stars, opens in SF”
The Guardian | February 18, 2019
“Black Panthers in the 1960s: a rare intimate look–in pictures”
The New York Times | January 9, 2019
“Images of Black Panthers Through a New Lens”
48 Hills | January 18, 2019
“Black Panthers, today: A 1968 photo series exploring the activists’ humanity finds significance in 2019”
Juxtapoz | January 22, 2019
“Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics and Black Futures @ SFAI'S Walter and McBean Galleries”
BoingBoing | January 22, 2019
“Striking photo essay about Oakland's Black Panther Party (1968)”
ABC7 News | January 23, 2019
“Exhibit Views Black Panther movement through fresh lens”
San Francisco Chronicle | January 29, 2019
“1968 Black Panther show at de Young Museum re-created at Art Institute”
Art Daily | January 29, 2019
“Exhibition revisits the controversial 1968 showing at the de Young Museum of 'Black Panthers'”
Huck Mag | February 8, 2019
“Documenting the Unseen Side of the Black Panther Party”
Daily Mail | February 11, 2019
“Life as a Black Panther: Newly discovered photos show the unseen side of the movement fighting for civil rights”
Huck magazine | January 15, 2019
“Patti Smith’s mysterious photos of Mexico ‘Souvenirs of wandering’”
The New Yorker | January 17, 2019
“Patti Smith’s Talismanic Photos from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Home and Beyond”
The Hollywood Reporter | January 18, 2019
“San Francisco Art Fairs Buzz With Bay Area Collectors, L.A. Artists and Patti Smith Performance”
ArtNews| January 18, 2019
“‘We Want to Invest in the Region’: FOG and Untitled Fairs Bring Out Dealers, Collectors in San Francisco”
San Francisco Chronicle | January 21, 2019
“Patti Smith and bowling party highlight Fog Design + Art week”
The New York Times | February 12, 2018
“Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction”
The Washington Post | February 12, 2018
“The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect, and that’s why they’re great”
Vox | February 12, 2018
“The Obama Portraits are Direct, Vital, and Above All, Cool”
Vulture | February 12, 2018
“The Obamas’ Official Portraits Rise to the Occasion”
SF Gate | February 12, 2018
“Obama jokes SF art school grad had too much integrity: See the official Smithsonian portrait”
TIME | February 12, 2018
“Three Things to Know About Kehinde Wiley, the Artist Behind Barack Obama's New Portrait”
ABC7 NEWS | February 12, 2018
“Bay Area professor recalls former student, Obama portrait artist as ‘brilliant’”
Smithsonian | February 12, 2018
“Artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald Capture the Unflinching Gaze of the President and First Lady”
The New Yorker | February 13, 2018
“The Shifting Perspective in Kehinde Wiley’s Portrait of Barack Obama”
ArtNet | February 20, 2018
“The Obama Portraits Have Boosted Attendance to the National Portrait Gallery by More Than 300 Percent”