On a quiet October morning, a van carrying dozens of paintings arrived at the CajaGranada Cultural Center, a modern glass-and-stone building on the edge of Granada.
The new installation shows a young Black woman in jogging clothes -- meant to challenge the thought of who gets to be memorialized in bronze.
From the vertical elegance of classical statue, to a field of billowing cotton balls captured in an oil painting, the arrangements add a new dimension of shape and color to the artworks they're placed in front of.
The statues-- Blue and White Porcelain, Heavenly Jade, Ping An, Rainbow and Gold Luck Dragons--will remain installed through early March.
The "Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style" exhibit at the de Young Museum follows the evolution of high fashion in the city, from classic to chaotic.
A multidisciplinary art show in Oakland called "Throughline" just wrapped up several sold-out shows earlier this month. It celebrated 13 change-making Black women in the city.