Posts in category Feature
SFAQ Review: “Hi-Red Center: Traces of Direct Action” at the Shoto Museum, Tokyo.
“Hi-Red Center: Traces of Direct Action” February 11 – March 23, 2014 Shoto Museum, Tokyo, Japan By Gianni Simone The Shoto …
Artist Highlight: KEMBRA PFAHLER
“Performance Art 101” -Interviewed by Dean Dempsey Kembra and I meet at Remedy Diner around the corner from her place in …
SFAQ Review: “Codex” group exhibition and the Kenneth Goldsmith talk, “Non-expressive Writing and the Future of Text” at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco.
Codex is the current group exhibition located in the front gallery space of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, conceived and by artist and …
SFAQ Review: “Two Geologies” featuring Stephen De Staebler & Danae Mattes at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco.
Stephen De Staebler died in 2011 at age 78, but not before he was privy to arrangements being made for his retrospective at the …
BLUE LIP BLACK WITCH-CUNT: The Cult of Juliana Huxtable
Interviewed by Jarrett Earnest Juliana Huxtable and her queer-coven the HOUSE OF LADOSHA are taking New York cultural life by a storm of their …
SFAQ Issue 15 Release Party @ Participant Inc, NYC, March 9th
SFAQ is pleased to announce a release party for issue 15 at Participant Inc. in New York City. Sunday March 9th, 4-6pm …
In Conversation with Curator, Santi Vernetti
Santi Vernetti, who recently graduated from USC’s Master’s of Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program, has curated an enticing and whitty group …
A Timeline of Important Events in the Art World of the Last Six Months, or A Farewell Postcard from the Summer When Contemporary Art Was Digitized, Bought Out, Boxed Up, and Shipped Away.
This piece is selected from ISSUE 14 of SFAQ. By Peter Dobey This article began as a simple exercise in cataloging the major …
In Conversation: Glen Helfand, curator of “Proximities” a three-part exhibition at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
Glen Helfand interviewed by Sarah Thibault How did you first get interested in art and writing about art? My interest in writing about art …
SFAQ Review: Los Angeles Art Fairs 2014 – Art Los Angeles Contemporary and Paramount Ranch
This past weekend in Los Angeles was packed with action for art-goers. Not only did Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC), host the fifth edition of …
SFAQ Issue 15 SF Release Party Tomorrow Night!
People of SF, tomorrow night, Friday the 7th, from 6-9pm… Please join SFAQ at Will Brown for a celebration of the new issue of SFAQ. …
Art World in Review: L.A., Dave Hickey gets the ole’ once over from East Coast lurkers.
It would seem that everyone under the sun, sleet, snow, and hail is talking about Los Angeles lately. There was the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art …
The Death of People You Don’t Know (for RR)
To say “it made me cry” doesn’t mean much on its own—I’ve cried at an in-flight Kate Hudson movie, but that is because I cry …
“OTHER STATES” Sound/Film Performances by Paul Clipson, Chris Duncan, and Collin McKelvey. Saturday, February 1st.
“OTHER STATES” is an evening of sounds and film performances/screenings by Paul Clipson, Chris Duncan, and Collin McKelvey at the Echo Park Film Center, Los …
SFAQ Review: Dohee Lee’s “Ara Gut (Ritual of the Ocean): Mago” at the YBCA, San Francisco.
Dohee Lee “Ara Gut (Ritual of the Ocean): Mago” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – YBCA San Francisco, California January 18, 2014 12-8pm …
Pete Seeger (RIP)
The legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94. For nearly seven decades, Seeger was a musical and …
SFAQ Review: Liz Larner solo exhibition at Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
“Liz Larner” January 11 – February 15, 2014 Regen Projects 6750 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90038 California (Sacremento to be exact), native, …
SFAQ Review: “A Vulgar Proof” solo exhibition by April Street at Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles.
It is early Saturday morning when I enter into the modest gallery space of Carter & Citizen to encounter the newest body of work …
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
The below audio for “I Have Been to the Mountaintop”, April 3rd, 1968 at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee was Mr. Kings last speach…he …
Artist Highlight: HOLLY HERNDON
I leave home just as Terminal starts. iPhone in my pocket, earbuds snake out from under a black toque and dart into the front of …