SF Art Events: Week of 10.26.25
Desert Fire #1 (Burning Palms), 1983, pigment print, 20 x 24 inches
THING ONE: Richard Misrach:Rewind
Oct 30–Dec 20, 2025
With Richard Misrach: Rewind, Fraenkel Gallery presents a retrospective look at the artist’s career, spanning more than five decades. The exhibition is organized in advance of a full-scale survey of Misrach’s work at museums in the U.S. and Europe, planned for 2027 and 2028. Presented in reverse chronological order, the exhibition ranges from Cargo, Misrach’s newest series exploring the impact of global trade, to Telegraph 3 A.M., his earliest project, documenting street culture in Berkeley, California, in the early 1970s. Highlighting ideas and themes that have consistently driven his work, the exhibition presents photographs made with an array of materials and techniques. Using everything from 35mm film to large-scale digital prints, the show traces Misrach’s development across the forefront of the medium. Fraenkel Gallery has shown Misrach’s work since 1985; this will be his seventeenth exhibition with the gallery. A public reception and book signing with the artist will take place on Saturday, November 1, from 2-4 pm.
LOCATION: Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: Tuesday–Friday, 10:30 am–5:30 pm and Saturday, 11 am–5 pm
THING TWO: LIT CRAWL SAN FRANCISCO
Sunday, October 26, 2025
2:45 PM - 9:00 PM
One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco's Lit Crawl is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco's Mission District that caps off our annual Litquake Festival. Lit Crawl SF brings together 250+ authors and close to 5,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event.
Started in 2004, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique, resonant brand: smart and silly, worldly and wacky, with events presented in venues usual (bars, cafes, galleries, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations, tattoo parlors, barbershops, and laundromats).
LOCATION: Various locations in the Mission, San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: 2:45 PM - 9:00 PM
THING THREE: THE ART OF FASHION
Ends November 3rd
Adana Tillman
courtesy of Jonathan Carver Moore
KARL is pleased to announce The Art of Fashion. This collaborative exhibition continues KARL’s mission to dissolve the boundaries between disciplines, this time highlighting artists and designers working across mixed media, textiles, and fabric-based practices—materials and modes that have been historically dismissed as craft but are now decisively re-evaluated within the canon of contemporary fine art.
From quilting and garment construction to assemblage and soft sculpture, The Art of Fashion asks: what is fashion if not sculpture worn? What is fiber if not form? What happens when the seam becomes a gesture, the pattern a conceptual strategy?
Anchored by Brandin Vaughn’s presentation, the show will feature a curated group of artists who harness the language of material—thread, cloth, dye, repetition, touch—to explore identity, labor, and the gendered histories of making. Their work challenges the hierarchies that have long divided “art” from “craft,” and invites viewers to consider the aesthetic and political power embedded in the textile tradition.
This fall edition of KARL is both a celebration and a reclamation—of fashion as fine art, of fabric as theory, and of the artists whose practices bridge the tactile and the conceptual.
LOCATION: KARL, 1255 Battery St (Levi’s Plaza), San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: Open to the Public Every Saturday, 12–5PM
