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Art Forgery Trial Asks: Were Dealers Duped, or Did They Turn a Blind Eye?
The New York art world was shocked when the city’s oldest gallery abruptly closed its doors more than four years ago. A few days later, news broke that Knoedler & Company was accused of selling...
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Artful Dodger: Visual Art Happenings to Fill Your February
“Whoa,” I can hear you saying from all corners of the Bay, “is January over already?” Did you miss all the things I told you about last month? You know what they say: second month, second chance. Okay,...
View ArticleSan Francisco Spirit Alive and Kicking In Super Bowl Anagrams
Sometimes you read so many stories about San Francisco losing its soul — its irreverent, much-celebrated, anti-establishment spirit — that it’s hard not to believe them. Then we put aside our...
View ArticleMaking Art out of E-Waste with Robb Godshaw
Robb Godshaw makes artwork that is conceptual and, as he describes, “Uses technical means to move things that can’t be moved, or make visible things that aren’t normally visible.” During an artist...
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The Art Rules: SFMOMA Reveals First Exhibitions for Rebuilt Museum
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced its inaugural exhibitions Wednesday, including plans to feature 260 works from the recently acquired Fisher Collection and 600 other newly promised...
View ArticleBabette: Artful Food at the New BAMPFA in Downtown Berkeley
The lush film Babette’s Feast (1987) is about, among other things, the centrality of food in our lives. Babette, the Berkeley café named after the Danish masterpiece, embodies the same values. When the...
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A New Generation of Saudi Artists Pushes the Boundaries
Abdulnasser Gharem doesn’t have the background you might expect for a successful artist – let alone one famous for edgy work from Saudi Arabia. He was once a lieutenant colonel in the Saudi army. He...
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Bailey Hikawa’s ‘Empty Temple’ Full of Uncanny Sculpture and Sensation
Outside City Limits’ gallery doors, four wall clocks display the time in four different cities: Oakland, New York, London and Dubai. The ticking clocks illustrate a world of hustle and bustle — a place...
View ArticleWall in Fresno Park a Canvas for Graffiti Artists’ Tribute
There aren’t many places in California that boast long, legal, public walls open to graffiti artists. But in southeast Fresno, in the unincorporated community of Calwa, there’s a quarter-mile...
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Oakland Native Documents ‘The Power of Melanin’ In Photographs
“Forgotten Cities is for the people who feel hopeless, voiceless,” says photographer Brittani “BRITTSENSE” Sensabaugh. Brittani “BRITTSENSE” Sensabaugh. (Courtesy Betti Ono) The images are striking....
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‘Luncheon In Fur’: The Surrealist Teacup that Stirred the Art World
As the world celebrates one hundred years of dadaism, it is worth looking at how this “anti-art” art movement that started in a café in Zurich during World War I resulted in an iconic artwork involving...
View Article‘Vanishing Ice’ Makes Beautiful Bid For Action on Climate Change
Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2002, a new exhibition at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, explores the way artists since the late 18th century have depicted the frozen...
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How Pottery Makes All the Difference to a Stressed-out, Milpitas Mother of 7
A couple of years ago, Shauna Samora drove by a ceramics studio in downtown San Jose and decided on a whim that it was time to take up pottery again. She hadn’t been at the wheel in 24 years. Samora’s...
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For the Love of Art: Bay Area-Themed Valentines for 2016
Valentine’s Day is upon us once again. And in the Bay Area, if you’ve had time to buy Valentine’s gifts, then you’re not working hard enough. Last year we commissioned six Bay Area-themed valentines...
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How Two Santa Cruz Artists Changed the Course of Environmental History
At the University of California Berkeley’s Sagehen Creek Field Station in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, small groups of plant species weather out a harsh winter under several feet of snow. There’s not...
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Halprins’ ‘Experiments in Environment’ Still Radical, 50 Years Later
In the Venn diagram of dance and architecture, one might think the two circles have very little overlap. But in 1966, dance pioneer Anna Halprin and her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin,...
View ArticleNo Boo? No Problem! A Singles Guide to Valentine’s Day 2016
(Note: This post made its debut three years ago today! This is an updated version with brand new events so you don’t end up showing up to that Icona Pop concert expecting an encore 1,095 days later.)...
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No Justice Without Us: The Bay Area’s Legacy of Art Activism
Bay Area history is deeply rooted in art activism and social justice organizing. The area is recognized for a firmly entrenched spirit of working towards a just world across an encyclopedic range of...
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Cheryl Derricotte Mines the Museum for Haunting Images of Slave Trade
Cheryl Patrice Derricotte‘s Ghosts/Ships offers a glimpse into the global African slave trade that is both subtle and direct in its links between past and present, culture and place. Inspired by Fred...
View ArticleJudge Warns Chicago About Starting Work on Lucas Museum
A federal judge has warned Chicago officials that if the court allows construction to start on Star Wars creator George Lucas’ lakefront museum, it may have to be torn down later if opponents of the...
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