Art from the Loin: Part One
By John Held, Jr. I took an afternoon to acquaint myself with the latest happenings in the Tenderloin art scene. It wasn’t …
By John Held, Jr. I took an afternoon to acquaint myself with the latest happenings in the Tenderloin art scene. It wasn’t …
The six Romanians accused of committing one of the largest art thefts of the last century will begin trial in Bucharest Tuesday. In …
By John Held, Jr. When I first arrived in San Francisco in 1995, one of the first calls I made was to …
Two more artists in the show Practice to Pretend play with the ideas of representation and abstraction. The work of both Rebekah Goldstein and Nikki …
Surf and Turf is an exhibition of primarily multi-media work from three contemporary female artists. Each artist is currently working in a different region …
By Shana Beth Mason Standing in the main courtyard of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, three wings are joined end-to-end, …
“THE LIVING NEWSPAPER: EXTRA EXTRA” is a performance series that begin this week August 7th and continue until August 11th. This project is supported …
Sarah Cain’s exhibition “Loud Object” at Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco simply and articulately addresses that nagging question that’s plagued the …
by John Held, Jr. If I were a major contemporary exhibiting artist, even I might be impressed if a work of mine …
I’ve been a fan of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s work for a few years now, and her current show, “A Haunted Capital” (her first solo show …
The artists in Digital Infinity a group show at Jessica Silverman gallery on view thru August 3rd, tackle the difficult idea of presenting virtual …
By Ariel Rosen I open Albert Camus’s The Fall to a random page and read these words: “A doll’s village, isn’t it? …
Opening tonight, July 26th at Et al. Gallery in Chinatown, San Francisco is a group exhibition titled, “AN EXHIBITION WHICH COMES AND GOES AS …
Philip Maisel’s assemblage and photography in the Right Window at Artists’ Television Access are comprised of multiple layers of materials and surfaces that …
by Mark Van Proyen “Avalanche” published their last number in the Summer of 1976. The previous Spring, the inaugural issue of “October” …
Mark Benson’s installation in the Hallway Space at the entrance of Eli Ridgway Gallery is dying. When I arrived less than a week …
Wayne Smith returns to Gallery 16 in his expansive new show “5 Short Holidays,” comprised mostly of his scanner-based imagery and collages, in addition …
By Glen Helfand It’s difficult to resist cinematic seduction, and Michael Mersereau doesn’t bother to try. His primary art interest is in …
By John Held, Jr. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are normally cited as the originators of collage in modern art, a term …
As San Francisco artist Eric William Carroll describes it, back in 2010 he found himself tripping down one of those Wikipedia holes lurking on …