Press Coverage

Year-End Celebrations

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 higher education art students show work online"

The Future of SFAI

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"

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"

Rashaad Newsome: To Be Real

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"

SFAI Receives $94,000 Save America’s Treasures Grant to Restore Recently Discovered New Deal-Era Frescoes

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

Postcommodity: The Point of Final Collapse

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

From the Tower: Andy Warhol 

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”

Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures

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”

Patti Smith: Wing

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”

Kehinde Wiley: Presidential Portrait

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”

Martin Machado: Fluid State

San Francisco Chronicle | June 5, 2018
“Modern maritime artist in SF plies high seas, then his brush”

Bill Fontana: Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns

SF Chronicle | January 25, 2018
“Sound sculptor Bill Fontana re-creates 1981 installation at Fort Mason”

KQED Arts | February 18, 2018
“Why Are You Hearing Foghorns on a Sunny Day?”

SF Weekly | February 22, 2018
“Bill Fontana and Sounds That Beg to Be Seen”