CultureVulture Oakland Archives

Women line up for paychecks-Richmond Shipyards
Richmond, CA, Circa 1942. Dorothea Lange. Digitalized 2019 :Luce Grant

Dorothea Lange Digital Archive

Oakland Museum of California

Emily S. Mendel Art & Architecture September 9, 2020 Oakland,

"The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the object. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could ...

Lenn Keller Collection, Collection of Bay Area Lesbian Archives

Queer California: Untold Stories

Oakland Museum of California

Emily S. Mendel Art & Architecture April 22, 2019 Oakland,

The distinctive multimedia and interactive exhibit, “Queer California: Untold Stories,” the first in California to focus on LGBTQ+ history and culture, just opened at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). The exhibition contains a variety ...

Mildred Howard

“TAP: Investigation of Memory”

Emily S. Mendel Art & Architecture March 3, 2019 Oakland,

A powerful multimedia piece entitled newly installed at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is the creation of lauded artist and long-time Berkeley resident, Mildred Howard. I spoke with Mildred Howard about the origins of her mixed media work, ...

The World of Charles and Ray Eames

The Oakland Museum of California

Emily S. Mendel Art & Architecture October 29, 2018 Oakland,

When the names of husband and wife, Charles Eames (1907-78), and (Bernice) Ray Eames (1912-88) are mentioned, most think of the unique mid-century plywood and fiberglass chairs still sold commercially today. But as the captivating, comprehensive and stylish exhibit ...

STREETCAR_891 - Lisa Ramirez (Blanche) - by Simone Finney

Streetcar Named Desire

Ubuntu Theater Project, Oakland

Emily S. Mendel Theater February 10, 2018 Oakland,

The vital, welcoming, multicultural Ubuntu Theater Project, founded in Oakland in 2012, is currently performing one of Tennessee William's best written and most iconic plays, "Streetcar Named Desire." It's the drama set in 1947 New Orleans in which the ...

The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California. Digitized by the Oakland Museum of California.

Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing

Emily S. Mendel Art & Architecture May 23, 2017 Oakland,

“Five years earlier, I would have thought it enough to take a picture of a man, no more. But now, I wanted to take a picture of a man as he stood in his world.” — Dorothea Lange ...

Dimensions Dance Theater, Project Panther. Photo: Ed MIller

Black Choreographers Festival

Works by Marc Bamuthi Joseph,
Ibrahima Diouf, Phylicia Stroud and Deborah Vaughan

Joanna G. Harris Dance February 15, 2017 Oakland,

The Black Choreographers Festival celebrated its 13th year by returning to the Malonga Casquelourd Center where it was performed in 2005. As Kendra Barnes, BCF co-producer suggests, ‘”it is like returning home.” The unique program featured the special talents of ...