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The San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtScott Strazzante/The ChronicleA scheduled in-person meeting between leadership at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and its staff to address recent layoffs was canceled, according to the museum workers’ union. “Here’s a visual representation of the Museum’s current accountability for their decisions to layoff union staff,” read a caption for a photo of an empty conference room posted to Instagram by the SFMOMA Union on Wednesday, April 7.

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San Francisco's Roxie Theater will host the second Fraenkel Film Festival July 9-19, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Roxie TheaterAfter a well-received first run in 2024, the Fraenkel Gallery’s Fraenkel Film Festival will return to the Roxie Theater this summer. The news of the festival’s second year comes as the nonprofit seeks to to raise $2 million to purchase the historic Mission District building it has occupied for the last 112 years.

1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Aidin Vaziri |Tony Bravo

Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on Thursday, November 14, 2024. Scott Strazzante/The ChronicleFour ancient bronze sculptures looted from Thailand more than half a century ago are set to return home from the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Thai officials announced this week. The long-awaited repatriation marks a milestone in Thailand’s efforts to reclaim cultural artifacts and brings emotional closure for at least one of the villagers who originally discovered them.

1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Aidin Vaziri |Tony Bravo

San Francisco Symphony Board President Priscilla Geeslin and Executive Director Matthew Spivey issued an open letter to patrons, calling out the musicians’ union for failing to acknowledge the financial pressures threatening the institution’s future.

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Aidin Vaziri |Tony Bravo

Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas conducts his final concert with the orchestra during the MTT 80th Birthday Concert at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on Saturday, April 26. Jana Ašenbrennerová/For the S.F. ChronicleWhat was intended as a jubilant tribute to Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony’s former music director, took a political turn over the weekend when musicians distributed protest leaflets at Davies Symphony Hall.