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Understanding the less tangible aspects of an artwork, especially when it is created within a culture different than our own, requires incorporating varied viewpoints and experiences that museums have too often ignored.
By Tamia Anaya, Jena Hirschbein, and Jane Williams
Understanding the political and social weight a textile can carry.
By Julieta Fuentes Roll
Consider Patrick Kelly's use of racist iconography in his designs.
By Kibwe Chase-Marshall
Artist Enrique Chagoya on his works and the history behind them.
By Enrique Chagoya
In FAMSF's development department, the institutional goal of becoming an anti-racist institution is surfacing new ideas.
By Alison Bowman and Matt Sussman
Laura L. Camerlengo interviews Dilys E. Blum to celebrate the Patrick Kelly exhibition.
By Laura L. Camerlengo in conversation with Dilys E. Blum
Consider Patrick Kelly's reappropriation of racist imagery.
By Abram Jackson
Learn about pastels on view in Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present.
By Furio Rinaldi
The Museum Stores recognizes and embraces the clear institutional call to evolve into an anti-racist institution.
By Tim Niedert and Stuart Hata
Learn about Robert Bechtle’s Sunset Intersection and how Bechtle's Outer Sunset compares to the present day neighborhood.
By Karin Breuer
Given the striking visual similarity of Fog over San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California to nineteenth-century American landscapes, viewers may be surprised to learn that the painting was created in the twenty-first century.
By Emma Acker
Learn about artworks in FAMSF’s collections by self-taught Black artists born in the South, and the Museums’ effort to curate with a conscience.
By Timothy Anglin Burgard
