"There is a lot happening at the de Young this month. The " Art of Manga " opened last weekend. Mission Local wrote about four fans or experts who caught the manga mania. "It's the future visual language," said the curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. "Manga is already in textbooks in Japan. The images are carrying the content. It goes to another part of your brain. At the end of the exhibition, you will be fluent in manga.""
"Artist Rose B. Simpson's show " LEXICON." opened and will be available until 2026. Noma Faingold writes in her review, "Coming from a long line of Native American ceramic artists of the Santa Clara Pueblo (Kha'po'oe Ówîngeh), based just south of Española, New Mexico, pottery is in Simpson's DNA. While she still lives at the pueblo and has her studio close by, she has forged a different creative path, while examining the past, present and future.""
"" Leilah Babirye: We Have a History " opened earlier this summer, giving the artist, born in Uganda and based in New York, her first solo show in the United States. Babirye creates sculptures in ceramic, wood and discarded objects. I don't know her work, but am excited to get to know it. Here is an excellent introductory video with Babirye and the curator of SFMOMA's African collection, Natasha Becker. Contemporary artists like"
Ashley Voss closed Voss Gallery at 24th and Bartlett streets and is focusing on other endeavors, including a weekly-updated local gallery guide with an Instagram account and website. The de Young opened Art of Manga, with curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere describing manga as a future visual language and saying visitors can become fluent in it. Rose B. Simpson's LEXICON opened and will remain on view through 2026; Simpson comes from a Santa Clara Pueblo pottery lineage and blends traditional ceramic heritage with new creative directions. Four galleries dedicated to Arts of Indigenous America highlight permanent collections, new acquisitions and artists like Simpson. Leilah Babirye: We Have a History opened earlier this summer as Babirye's first U.S. solo show, featuring sculptures in ceramic, wood and discarded objects and an introductory video with SFMOMA curator Natasha Becker.
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