Bridget Quinn
Bridget Quinn is a writer, art historian, and critic living in western Sonoma County. She’s the author of the biography Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and the books She Votes and Broad Strokes.
The Making of Matriarchal Modernism
Jordan Troeller’s new book looks at Ruth Asawa and midcentury artist-mothers.
Fiction: ‘Renaissance, MT’
In 1970s Montana, a gifted boy’s love for Renaissance art sets him apart, inspiring awe, bullying, and sibling admiration.
Woman’s Work
As the Legion of Honor celebrates its centennial, the museum’s first-ever chief curator is making space for paintings that center the experiences of little girls, goddesses, and mothers.
Art As Artificial Intelligence
A subtly drawn question emerges as an author and art historian reads the California Book Club selection The Every: Is AI dangerous as a tool of art?
Judy Chicago in Her Own Words
An interview with the artist on California, feminism, and her return to San Francisco.
A Retrospective Long Overdue
The pioneering artist Judy Chicago is celebrated in the city that launched her career.
Museum on the Edge
Thomas Campbell had been the head of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for less than 18 months when COVID-19 struck. Then came a long-overdue reckoning with racism. His response: Launch the biggest, boldest, and most inclusive art exhibition in the city’s history.
Whom to Put on a Pedestal?
Bay Area artists, writers, and activists chime in with their picks for people who deserve a public statue.
