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March 2023
- March 30, Local News Matters: "Seniors’ artwork lights up their lives — and SF’s City Hall" by Rowena Gonden
- March 30, CBS Bay Area: "San Francisco art exhibit tells the untold story of migrant women" by Jose Martinez
- March 21, SF Standard: "How Much Does It Cost To Move and Install Priceless Artworks? At Least $3 Million" by Julie Zigoris
- March 20, Axios: "San Francisco has few statues depicting women" by Megan Rose Dickey
- March 16, SF Chronicle: "Tom Hsieh, supervisor who changed S.F. forever, dies at 91" by Sam Whiting
- March 16, KQED: "Two SFPL Shows Look for Humanity in City Mugshots and Official IDs" by Rae Alexandra
- March 15, Bay Area Reporter: "Artists Can Apply for SF Residency" by Cynthia Laird
- March 8, SF Chronicle: "New funding model gives arts groups firmer footing in downtown S.F." by Audrey Brown
- March 5, Bay City News: "Lights Out: Bay Bridge public art installation fading to black, but creator has bigger plans" by Keith Burbank
February 2023
- February 12, SF Gate: "Artists Affected By January Storms Invited To Seek Out Relief Funds" by Olivia Wynkoop (BCN)
- February 11, KQED: "Artists and Arts Organizations Now Eligible for Storm Relief Funds" by Rachel Vasquez
- February 1, Bay Area Reporter: "News Briefs - New SF art exhibit highlights seniors" by Cynthia Laird
January 2023
- January 30, KALW: "Art With Elders @ SF City Hall" by Janice Lee
- January 26, SF Standard: "Meet the SF Artist Who Sells Her Work From Inside a Vintage Newsstand" by Camillie Cohen
- January 25, SF Standard: "What Is It Like To Navigate Market Street as a Pigeon?" By Christina Campodonico
- January 21, SF Gate: "Artist’S Comic-Strip Mural Beautifies, Educates In Sf’S Bayview-Hunters Point" By Rowena Gonden (BCN)
- January 19, NBC Nightly News: AI can create stunning portraits. What does that mean for the art world? By Jacob Ward
- January 13, The Art Newspaper: Moving the Needle: "San Francisco to unveil Hiroshi Sugimoto's towering sundial monument" By Julie Baumgardner
- January 3, SF Chronicle: (P)art of the City - "10 art installation to look for at S.F.'s Central Subway stations" By Tony Bravo
December 2022
- December 22, Nob Hill Gazette: "Museum-Quality Transit Art Arrives in San Francisco" by Max Blue
- December, SF Arts: "Let There Be Light: Art from Subway to Sky" by Catherine Barry
November 2022
- November 17, SF Standard: "Move Over Stoneheng. 'Cathenge' Comes to San Francisco" by Christina Campodonico
- November 14, SF Examiner: "Central Subway opens with art worthy of S.F.'s dramatic, transient beauty" by Max Blue
- November 5, SF Standard: "5 Things You Should Know About San Francisco’s Indigenous Past & Present" by Liz Lindqwister, Olivia Cruz Mayeda
- November 4, Asian Journal Press: "A Comic Treat For Market Street: Fil-Am Artist Illustrates, Highlights San Francisco Poets In Street Poster Series"
October 2022
- October 29, SF Chronicle: "S.F. drag icon Juanita More celebrates 30 years of queendom in exhibition" by Tony Bravo
- October 28, Slate: "A Crappy Process in San Francisco" by Henry Grabar
- October 21, Hoodline: "Here’s your first look inside the the Central Subway’s Chinatown-Rose Pak Station" by Joe Kukura
- October 20, SF Standard: "City Officials, Chinatown Leaders Show Off Station Ahead of Long-Awaited Subway Opening" by Sarah Wright
- October 6, SF Bay Times: "Juanita: 30 Years of MORE! Celebrates the Iconic San Francisco Drag Queen’s 30th Anniversary"
September 2022
- September 30, KQED: "A New SFAC Exhibit Celebrates Juanita MORE!'s Dazzling 30 Years in Drag" by Nastia Voynovskaya
- September 30, NPR Morning Edition: "How one Filipino American artist influenced the work of a generation of others" by Chloe Veltman
August 2022
- August 31, Los Angeles Times: "A show devoted to Filipino pioneer Carlos Villa is revelatory, but incomplete" by Carolina A. Miranda
- August 18, Asian Journal Press: "SF Asian Art Museum Hosts First Major Museum Retrospective Of A Fil-Am Artist In US"
- August 2, SF Gate: "Art Of Deception: Sf Arts Commission Director Used Cultural Grant To Fund Hawaii Vacation" by Thomas Hughes, BCN
June 2022
- June 19, SF Chronicle: "S.F. artist Carlos Villa was told there was no such thing as ‘Filipino art.’ So he made history" Letha Ch'ien
- June 11, SF Standard: "New, Old, Quirky, Costly: Get Familiar With SF’s Civic Art Collection" by Christina Campodonico
May 2022
- May 31, ARTnews: "These Are the Top Art Cities in the U.S., According to a New UBS Report" by Maximiliano Duron
- May 31, ABC 7: "Here's a sneak peek of SF's Central Subway in Chinatown" by Amy Hollyfield
- May 3, SF Chronicle: "Grants for the Arts, Arts Commission in talks about merging, dividing S.F. artists" by Lily Janiak
March 2022
- March 23, Bay Area Reporter: "News Briefs: Lesbian Iranian joins SF Arts Commission" by Cynthia Laird