Week of 06.01.25
Thing one: Contemporary Symbolism
Opening Saturday, June 7 from 5-9 PM
This show features many great artists. This one is not to be missed!
Contemporary Symbolism opens a space for inquiry. A space where tradition might speak alongside new visions; where cultural myths, personal icons, and unexpected juxtapositions coexist. Offering a constellation of works moving between sacred and secular, the timeless and the present moment, each piece is a doorway into a deeper symbolic truth waiting to be discovered.
With an international selection of artists, the exhibition features work from:
Daniel Bilmes @bilmesart
Denis Sarazhin @denis_sarazhin
João Ruas @feral_kid
Joshua Flint @joshuaflintart
Kent Williams @kentwms
Kevin Foote @bitter_buff_alo
Larisa Brechun @larisab_paints
Nadezda @nadezdapaints
Nadine Tralala @kopfscheu
Rim Baudey @rimbaudey
Soey Milk @soeymilk
Stephen Schirle @stephenschirle
Thierry Carrier @thierry_carrier, courtesy of H Gallery, Paris (@hgalleryparis)
Contemporary Symbolism runs through July 19.
LOCATION: Ryan Graff Contemporary, 804 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 | 415.534.1450
HOURS: Fridays and Saturdays 12-5, and always by appointment.
Thing TWO: Bouquets to Art
June 3 - 8, 2025
For the first time ever, experience both the de Young and Legion of Honor erupting with fresh flowers for Bouquets to Art. See more than 100 floral displays by the Bay Area’s leading floral designers, in conversation with artworks from our permanent collection, only from June 3 through 8.
From striking sculptural creations to extravagant floral fashion designs, inspiration waits around every corner. Tickets are selling fast—don’t sleep on booking your spot!
Tickets include same-day access to Bouquets to Art at both the de Young and Legion of Honor, as well as all special exhibitions currently on view. There is no Free Saturdays or Free Tuesdays during Bouquets to Art.
LOCATION: deYoung Museum and Legion of Honor
HOURS: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM
thing three: Black Gold: Stories Untold
Opening June 6, 2025
Thursday through Monday
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Free entrance
Black Gold: Stories Untold is open during Fort Point’s public hours.
Plan to spend 90 to 120 minutes to visit the exhibition and explore Fort Point.
Opening this summer at Fort Point, FOR-SITE’s highly anticipated exhibition Black Gold: Stories Untold invites 17 contemporary artists and collectives to reflect on the resilience, struggles, and triumphs of African Americans who lived in California from the Gold Rush to the Reconstruction period following the Civil War (c. 1849–1877). Through newly commissioned and recent artworks, the exhibition highlights important but lesser-known figures and narratives from California’s history, exploring the presence of slavery and the struggle for legal rights within this “free” state, the successes of Black entrepreneurs, and the experiences of African American Army regiments known as the Buffalo Soldiers. More broadly, Black Gold illuminates the role that Black communities played in the state’s cultural, social, and political environs of the time.
Black Gold was inspired in part by Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California, a public education campaign produced by the ACLU of Northern California, one of FOR-SITE’s community partners. The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
Artists
Akea Brionne, Demetri Broxton, Adrian L. Burrell, the artists of Creativity Explored, Adam Davis, Cheryl Derricotte, Carla Edwards, Mildred Howard, Isaac Julien, Tiff Massey, Umar Rashid, Trina Michelle Robinson, Alison Saar, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Bryan Keith Thomas, Cosmo Whyte, and Hank Willis Thomas.
LOCATION: Fort Point, 201 Marine Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94129
HOURS: Thursday through Monday from 10 am until 5 pm.
