PJ Gubatina Policarpio is an arts and culture leader — curator, educator, programmer, community organizer — based in San Francisco and New York City.

 
 
View fullsize Nibha Akireddy: Practice Skin is now open @rootdivision. It's a beautiful meditation on the practice of tattooing as art, vessel, medicine, culture, language and so much more. Congrats to Exhibitions Fellow Vanessa Perez Winder for organizing and the
View fullsize November is still my month. 🌷
View fullsize One of the best things about spending time at SF State this semester is learning more about the art on campus, including Ruth Asawa’s Garden of Remembrance pictured here. Created between 2000-02, the Garden of Remembrance is among Ruth Asawa&rs
View fullsize First look at “Making Their Mark” now open @bampfa. On it’s first museum stop and Bay Area homecoming, the collection @shahgargfoundation features shining examples of the best and most critical works from over 70 intergenerational w
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View fullsize Finally, San Francisco gets a monument it needs and deserves. What a proud day it was a few weeks ago to witness and celebrate the unveiling of Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman, Dr. Maya Angelou’s tribute monument @sfpubliclibrary along with it&r
View fullsize If in Florence, don’t miss the Masolino and Masaccio frescoes at the Brancacci Chapel inside Santa Maria del Carmine. Commissioned by Brancacci, the paintings, made between 1425-27, depict biblical scenes in at that time a new and radical way,
View fullsize Kapwani Kiwanga in the Canadian Pavilion, draping and covering the pavilion with thousands of conterie — tiny glass seed beads — produced in Murano that was historically used as global currency and means of exchange, reflecting on value,