Start Your Weekend With Online Live Music From SFJAZZ

Like all California music venues, SFJAZZ is closed for the foreseeable future because of the coronavirus crisis. But they’re not stopping the music—on Fridays at 5PM Pacific time, they’ll be streaming high quality videos of some of the venue’s most memorable concerts. Gospel Singer Lizz Wright is o…

Social Distancing Means Now You Can Finally Become a Classical Music Buff

Because concerts are off for the next few weeks, the San Francisco Symphony has made all episodes of its Keeping Score docu-series free to watch on YouTube.

Social Distancing Means Now You Can Finally Become a Classical Music Buff

Social distancing means it’s a good time to pick up new skills and expertise, like becoming a classical music buff. Because concerts are off for the next few weeks, the San Francisco Symphony has made all episodes of its Keeping Score docu-series free to watch on YouTube. Created with musical direc…

San Francisco-Set Films Give You a Virtual Tour of the City

With our favorite Bay Area haunts largely off-limits, KQED Arts recommends a few San Francisco-set films that can give you a virtual tour of the city: Zodiac, Dirty Harry, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and if all that’s too gloomy, Mrs. Doubtfire.

The Virtues of the Everyday Postcard

In a moment of rapidly breaking news, constant refreshes and push alerts, the pace of sending and receiving mail is a great reminder to slow down. And if you send mail, you’re likely to get mail in return. Get posting!

Welcome In Spring with Live Feeds of Ospreys, Peregrine Falcons and Sea Hawks

Bay Area-wide shelter in place orders to stem spread of the novel coronavirus coincide with the approach of spring, and KQED Art's reporter Sam Lefebvre has a couple recommendations for observing wildlife during this season of renewal, both of them from the comfort of home. 

Expanded Cinema is Driven By Human-Vehicle Relationships

Founded in 2012, Shapeshifters’ monthly expanded cinema series features experimental filmmakers and video artists presenting moving image work live with accompaniment from sound artists, musicians and artists from other creative disciplines.

Fourth Annual Avant-Garde Film Festival Plays in S.F. Mission District

Light Field, the artist-run film festival, has shown films that require fog in lieu of a screen, run on multiple projectors, and take up an entire room. The fourth annual edition of the avant-garde film festival occurs Friday, March 13, 2020 through Sunday, March 15, 2020 at the Lab.

Matisse’s Cut-Outs Spark Words, Music and Dance at Mills College

It’s a story of art inspiring art inspiring art. Henrí Matisse’s joyful paper compositions, which the artist began making in the 1940s with painted paper and a pair of scissors, inform an afternoon performance at the Mills College Art Museum featuring choreographer Molissa Fenley, poet Bob Holman a…

Cecile McLorin Salvant May Sound Like Billie Holiday, But She's Her Own Powerhouse

Cecile Mclorin Salvant took the jazz world by storm when she burst onto the scene early in the decade. Her new album, Ogresse, is a 90-minute song cycle about a devilish woman with a hunger for human flesh. She brings it to the Bay Area on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at the Paramount Theater in Oakla…