Sam Mondros

After half a century shaping SF’s art scene, Rena Bransten Gallery is packing up its Dogpatch space. With sales plummeting, it’s taking the show on the road.

Thieves crawled through HVAC to steal 1,000 artworks from Oakland Museum

FBI releases footage of suspects in brazen Oakland Museum burglary

A vintage shop says the retail giant copied its signature design. The brand pulled the pants after backlash online.

Over 1,000 artifacts and historic items stolen from Oakland Museum storage site.

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco will shutter its downtown home to launch pop-up exhibitions across the city in 2026.

From the Gold Rush to the AI boom, San Francisco has always danced between glory and ruin. The de Young’s “Boom and Bust” exhibition captures that eternal rhythm in haunting, breathtaking photographs of the Bay Area’s past and future.

From Sausalito to Oakland, indie designers are reviving San Francisco’s legacy of pantsmaking — one wide leg at a time.

Claudia Altman-Siegel helped put SF’s art scene on the map. Now she’s bowing out, citing a sluggish market and the grind of staying afloat in the age of mega-galleries.

At the Fall Show, the city’s buttoned-up elites let their hair down.

After 16 years, the legendary Bay Area gallery said it would close, citing financial struggles.

The governor said the measure’s broad limits on chatbots could unintentionally block minors from using AI entirely.

In Potrero Hill, Andrew Berg’s Small Works is no ordinary frame shop. It’s where the Bay Area’s biggest artists, from SFMOMA to Jessica Silverman, find frames that transform into art themselves. Step inside the creative hub shaping SF’s art world.

Even as beloved galleries close their doors, Bay Area art is in full bloom. From MoAD’s cosmic Black Art Week to a rising painter’s debut inside IKEA, here are nine vibrant exhibitions redefining creativity this October—mark your calendars now.

Six more months of giant Burner vibes on San Francisco’s waterfront. “R-Evolution,” the 45-foot metal nude that first wowed Burning Man crowds, isn’t going anywhere soon after Rec and Parks extended her stay on the Embarcadero through March 2026

Step into a world where fans dress as their favorite characters and 600 rare works of manga hang on museum walls. “Art of Manga” at San Francisco’s de Young Museum celebrates Japan’s beloved comics as global art, from shojo to queer narratives.

Hours after The Standard published and investigation into lawsuits and allegations of abuse at SF’s Fine Arts Museums, CEO Thomas Campbell told staff our story was “distorted.” We’re publishing his email—and fact-checking him.

The city has paid out more than $1 million to settle seven. But the allegations keep coming.

As AI art is hotly debated, two local schools embrace it.

Festival fashion at Outside Lands 2025, from raw denim to Y2K-inspired looks.