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In 1970, ten billboards went up across Oakland and Berkeley. The artist never explicitly stated their meaning.
Paintings conservator Tricia O’Regan outlines her process for preparing The Hero for its first public display in decades.
By Tricia O’Regan
In 1968 – 1969, the exhibition A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers drew 100,000 visitors.
By Lauren Palmor
Tissot’s most personally meaningful work was as a visionary religious artist.
By Melissa Buron
James Tissot: Fashion + Faith is the first major reassessment of Tissot’s career in over 20 years.
By Anthea Callen
James Tissot grew up in a household attuned to fashion.
By Justine De Young
The experiential video allows visitors to reflect upon notions about Pacific culture and history.
By Claudia Schmuckli
The wallpaper’s subject imagined a perceived idyllic way of life in the South Pacific.
By Martin Chapman and Eve Rosekind
Rubens’s painting Daniel in the Lions’ Den is a favorite of visitors.
By Alexandra Libby
Rubens’s interest in dark subject matter is evident in his riveting Head of Medusa.
By Corrinne Chong with Petr Tomášek
In this edition of Transits, a series that looks at the movement of art in the Museums’ galleries, we’re highlighting three paintings by Peter Paul Rubens.
This magnificent salon is one of the finest examples of French neoclassical interior architecture in a museum.
