Bay area artist Joan Brown's image is the first thing you see at a new National Portrait Gallery exhibition called "Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction." Brown's painting ...

That makes a show like "Slap in the Face: A Tribute to Sticker and Graffiti Art" at San Francisco State University's Cesar Chavez Student Center Art Gallery that much more of a rarity. Consider it ...

The expression “face to face” suggests both intimacy and confrontation, a reckoning of sorts, whatever its purpose or tone. Currently, at the International Center of Photography, the phrase ...