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Local Language, Art Fabrication Studio, to Replace Vessel Gallery in Oakland
Last month, Oakland’s Vessel Gallery shuttered after landlord Matthew Iglehart declined to renew the Oakland Art Murmur fixture’s lease, saying through his property management company that he wanted to...
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Towels and Cardboard Take on ‘More Life’ in Henna Vainio’s Hands
It’s the last week to catch a number of notable shows (Richard Learoyd at Fraenkel Gallery, Hayal Pozanti at Jessica Silverman, Andrew Chapman at Et al.’s Mission Street location), but definitely...
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Orestes Gonzalez and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Are Not to Be Forgotten
Walt Whitman’s poem “To a Stranger” is an ode to an outline, a poem addressed to an imaginary other that is so vivid in the mind’s eye one forgets they’re a dream. His work is a masterpiece of longing,...
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Channeling The Pain Of Depression Into Photography, And Finding You Are Not...
In a particularly difficult season of depression, photography was one of the tools Tara Wray used to cope. “Just forcing myself to get out of my head and using the camera to do that is, in a way, a...
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After Oscar Grant, Oakland Artists Inspired a New Generation of Activists
Hours after Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant on the platform of Fruitvale Station on Jan. 1, 2009, Bay Area street artists sprang into action. An...
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Mike Kelley Haunts 500 Capp Street with Toy Guts and Doppelgängers
One of my main hopes for 2019 is that we take a page from Mike Kelley’s book and let everything get just a little bit… weirder. For those unfamiliar with the late artist’s oeuvre, the current...
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In Vija Celmins’ Work, Looking is a Multisensory Experience
Vija Celmins’ lessons on how to be an artist, based on her own 80 years of life experience, might look something like this: Reduce your practice to its most simple elements: looking and making. Do it...
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Rejecting Artist Housing, Emeryville Selects Cultural Center Developer
A long-derelict brick building on the edge of Emeryville’s shopping district could open as a regional destination for arts and culture as early as fall 2020. Emeryville City Council in November...
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This isan Appreciation Post AboutPatti Smith’s Instagram
If we bracket for a moment the Kanyes of the world, celebrity social media accounts tend to fall into a few categories: there are beloved celebs whose posts simply confirm their delightfulness (Leslie...
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The Wind, the Rain, and Wayne Thiebaud at SFMOMA
It was one of those rainy winter Saturdays at SFMOMA, where the storm blows pedestrians through the revolving doors and into the lobby, their cold shoes tracking wet leaves across the floor. Even...
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‘Suffragette City’ Delivers A Feminist Call to Arms in Downtown San Jose
What drives people to take to the streets? The reasons are varied and the history long. We march to protest, to celebrate, to worship. We march in large part to feel the exhilaration of common purpose...
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The Art Fairs are Coming! Even If You’re Not Buying, There’s Plenty to See...
Bay Area art lovers, prepare thyselves for a very full weekend. Two fairs descend on San Francisco beginning Thursday, and everyone is pulling out the stops. FOG Art+Design (located at Fort Mason’s...
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In MoAD’s ‘Black Refractions,’ Harlem’s Studio Museum Collection Shines
It’s not every day a museum takes a proud and purposeful stance against collecting artwork. But in September 1968, representatives from the brand-new Studio Museum in Harlem, a space dedicated to...
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Chris Dorley-Brown’s Composite Photos Find Poetry in the Mundane
It’s not too much of an exaggeration to compare the impact of digital technology on contemporary image-making to the revolution wrought by silver-nitrate photography in the mid-19thcentury. Both...
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Toro y Moi is the Most Regular Famous Person You’ll Ever Meet
Toro y Moi has sped through the Atlantic on Diddy’s speedboat, produced for Travis Scott and performed for sold-out crowds around the world. But his day-to-day life in the Bay Area isn’t nearly as...
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Imagine Yourself a Spider, or a Softball Catcher, in Two Wattis Shows
From the street, it looks like the Wattis Institute is under construction. Newspaper pages covering the floor-to-ceiling windows and glass doors block all possible glimpses of the exhibitions inside....
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Veterans Building Shows Off A Softer Side in Mik Gaspay’s Collaborative Quilting
When you see an imposing, immobile thing—say, a Beaux-Arts city building devoted to official happenings—is your first impulse to make that very solid object soft, squishy and accessible? If you were...
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More Than Just Another Instagram Experience at BAMPFA
From a distance, you might think the room at BAMPFA containing Masako Miki / Matrix 273 is in the lineage of the Color Factory or the Museum of Ice Cream—yet another colorful, twee, vapid Instagram...
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Crypto-Bros Beware: These Artists Aren’t Buying Your Version of Utopia
Last February, the New York Times reported a cadre of crypto high rollers had left the continental United States for Puerto Rico to start a crypto-utopia—that is, a settlement where their money, air-...
View Articlede Young, Legion of Honor to Offer Free Saturday Admission to SF Residents
Starting April 6, the de Young and Legion of Honor will admit San Franciscans for free every Saturday. The initiative will accept photo ID or a postmarked envelope as proof of residence, part of an...
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