If this summer’s visual arts calendar proves anything, it’s that Bay Area museums and galleries are going all in on spectacle, reflection and local talent.
A long-overdue retrospective honoring Oakland assemblage pioneer Mildred Howard is finally giving one of the region’s most influential artists her due, while the de Young Museum is once again betting on the blockbuster appeal of Ancient Egypt.
Elsewhere, galleries and museums are leaning into ideas around community, labor and spiritual inheritance, with artists like Marcel Pardo Ariza and Woody De Othello exploring deeply personal histories through ambitious new work…