Let’s start by stating the obvious: international biennial exhibitions have been looking the same for quite a few years now. These exhibitions feature many of …

Despite decades of scholarly investigation, we still only have a few hard facts about the painter known as Hieronymus Bosch. Even though he signed some …

November/ December issues of SFAQ, NYAQ, and AQ out now.   Get the whole issue as PDF

  SFAQ is pleased to announce the release of our new magazine, NYAQ (New York Art Quarterly) which will join SFAQ (San Francisco Art Quarterly) …

By the time any of you are reading this, I will have already given my eulogy for Richard Berger, and only time will tell if …

Taipei Biennial Taipei Fine Arts Museum The Great Acceleration 13 September 2014–4 January 2015 At the outset, let’s get the idea of acceleration straight and …

Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers Seoul Museum of Art September 1-November 23, 2014 It shakes out like this: on the odd-numbered years, we have the big …

The previous issue of SFAQ contained an excerpt from the first chapter of my little book Achievement, Failure, Aspiration: Three Attempts to Understand Contemporary Art. …

I still don’t know what identity means, and it is possible that I never will. With that much said, I can now confess that I …

    Features GEZI PARK: ONE YEAR LATER by ARIE AMAYA-AKKERMANS / THE INACCESSIBLE OTHER by MARIE MARTRAIRE  /  SÁN ART: VIETNAM’S LEADING CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER by COURTNEY MALICK /NEW …

Now that we live in a world where everybody is a hipster, that means that nobody is a hipster anymore, because by definition, to be …

  Opening Thursday, January 16th is a massive group exhibition celebrating 5 years of Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco featuring over 80 artists.  Artists include: …

  Of all of the aesthetic attributes that have fallen out of favor during the past fifty years, charm is perhaps the one that has …

Check out Gold Wood’s new single  – they are high!! Check them out at Ever Gold Gallery in San Francisco on January 18th at 8pm, …

  As a celebration of its two full decades of operation, Gallery 16 is hosting an extensive exhibition of the work of the artistic collaboration …

Book Review Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith and John Law (eds.) “Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society” San Francisco: Last Gasp Press, 2013. 293 pp. …

by Mark Van Proyen       “Avalanche” published their last number in the Summer of 1976. The previous Spring, the inaugural issue of “October” …