Wildfire Sparks Renewal for Reclusive Artist Ray Dutcher
In February, 85-year-old artist Ray Dutcher fled a wall of fire three stories high as it roared down the mountain toward his cabin near Bishop, a town in the remote eastern Sierra south of Yosemite....
View ArticleFor Day of the Dead, Families Turn to Nicho Art to Ease Grief
Carmen Gonzalez combs through pictures of her youngest son, Jacob. She picks one that shows him in boxing gear, his gloved fists raised. He looks straight at the camera. In another, he’s more relaxed,...
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Artful Dodger: Five Visual Arts Happenings This Month
Even though the year is drawing to a close, the Bay Area art scene is cranking it up, with a number of not-to-miss shows and events over the coming weeks. November may be time for cozy sweaters and...
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In One-Woman Show, Andrea Fraser Mansplains Feminism in 1972
Andrea Fraser isn’t afraid to make you uncomfortable. As an artist whose practice includes institutional critique, she’s known for pointing out unconscious biases and capitalist motivations in art...
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Bay Area Painting Right Now: Keith Boadwee’s Nasty Master Class
Editor’s Note: This article contains images and references that may not be suitable for all audiences. I can’t stop thinking about a new painting by Keith Boadwee and Club Paint. A smiling green frog...
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Not Just NEAT, ‘New Experiments in Art and Technology’ Delights
New Experiments in Art and Technology (NEAT), the latest exhibit from the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s Chief Curator Renny Pritikin (with help from exhibition artist Paolo Salvagione), brings together...
View ArticleDía de los Muertos Celebration Honors Dead, Mission District of Old
Thousands of Bay Area residents converged in San Francisco’s Mission District this week for its annual Día de los Muertos celebration, which honors the dead through art, music and ritual. Among the...
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‘Sanjay and Craig’ Co-Creator Jay Howell on Zines, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ and Being...
Babes, blood, and boners — it reads like the “B” section in a book of teenage boys’ favorite things. But for cartoonist Jason “Jay” Howell, they’re artistic muses, and thanks to their inspiration over...
View ArticleMaking Ceramic Sculpture with Brendan Monroe
Brendan Monroe is known for drawings, paintings and sculptures of organic landscapes and otherworldly creatures. Art School visited with the artist during a transitional moment when he’d just completed...
View ArticleJudge Lets Nonprofit File Response Over Lucas Museum Plans
A federal judge has told a nonprofit group trying to stop Star Wars’ filmmaker George Lucas from building a $400-million museum in Chicago to respond to the city’s request to dismiss its lawsuit. The...
View ArticleSF Arts Commission to Unveil Four New Art Installations at SFO
The San Francisco Arts Commission announced Tuesday it will unveil four more art installations at San Francisco’s International Airport next week. The installations, on view starting Nov. 18, are the...
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Imagined Worlds at MoAD, Alphabets and Artifacts Included
After “re-imagining” their galleries, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) reopened yesterday with three solo exhibitions, featuring artists Tim Roseborough, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Alison Saar....
View ArticleControversial Head of Filoli Estate Gone With No Explanation
Every year more than 100,000 people visit Filoli, a Georgian-style mansion and formal gardens in Woodside. And more than 1,000 volunteers keep it running. This week, they got an email from Filoli’s...
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Janet Cardiff’s ‘Forty Part Motet’ Almost Made Me Cry
It’s hard to write about Janet Cardiff’s sound installation The Forty Part Motet without devolving into superlatives. Previous installations in New York at PS1 and the Cloisters garnered reviews that...
View ArticleEast L.A. Instagram Account Looks Beyond Gangbanger Stereotype
Guadalupe Rosales says some of the best times of her life were in the early ’90s, when she was a teenager growing up in East L.A. “Spending time with party crews and also relatives who were in gangs,”...
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Circle Of Hope: How a Raw Reaction Became a Sign of Solidarity
In the aftermath of the coordinated terror attacks on Paris, people around the world have been taking to social media to share their grief and show support for the French people. One image, in...
View ArticleArtist Janet Cardiff Brings Eight Virtual Choirs to Fort Mason
Starting this weekend, visitors to Fort Mason’s newly renovated former machine shop, Gallery 308, will get to experience 400-year-old choral music while gazing at views of the Golden Gate Bridge....
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The Unnatural Nature of Edward Burtynsky’s Industrial Landscapes
Growing up in an industrial town in southern Ontario, where his father worked at a local General Motors plant, photographer Edward Burtynsky witnessed a side of manufacturing and consumer culture that...
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Watch Jim Campbell’s LED Images Swimming Through Space
Up close, the lights blink in an uncoordinated way — they’re a constellation of bright pinpoints without much meaning. The piece only starts to reveal itself when the viewer takes several steps away...
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Remember Frontier Village? A Show for the Grown-Up South Bay Kid
On Nov. 7, the New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) hosted over 500 people for the opening of It Takes a Village: A trip back in time to Frontier Village, Santa’s Village, and Lost World. Presenting three...
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