The winners of this year’s SFMOMA SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) Award are Josh Faught, Jonn Herschend, Zarouhie Abdalian and David Wilson. …

Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive August 21 – December 8, 2013   As the Berkeley Art Museum …

Feature by Peter Dobey     All too often I encounter visual art that has been butchered by theoretical exposition. A particularly egregious variety of …

Interviewed by Sarah Thibault   Zarouhie Abdalian and I met for drinks recently to discuss her current show MATRIX 249 at the Berkeley Art Museum, her …

Marina Abramovic In conversation with Lawrence Rinder City Arts & Lectures September 12, 2013 Nourse Theater San Francisco, California   A New Bauhaus?   By …

Is Doug Aitkens’ “Station To Station” a cool art project or a fancy ad campaign?     September 18, 2013 By Peter Dobey     …

-Interview by Charles Desmarais   Paul Schimmel, one of the world’s most respected curators of up-to-the-minute contemporary art, lives at the northernmost edge of the …

By Chris Rusak   A recent exhibition at Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica, California, presented viewers with work that explicates the paths and pitfalls …

“The Worlds of Bernice Bing” Produced and directed by Madeleine Lim Co-Producer and Project Director, Jennifer Banta Yoshida Presented by the Asian American Women Artists …

An Interview with Charles Gatewood   “Charles Gatewood: 50 Years” September 5-November 30, 2013 Opening: Thursday, September 5, 11am-7:30pm Reception and book signing: Saturday, September …

“Life Isn’t Always Pretty or in Focus”   By John Held, Jr.       The Sixties were a time of communes and community, but …

By Leora Lutz       As the title suggests, the current exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris is a group show of contemporary landscape. To …

It’s been nearly ten years since the car driven by Helmut Newton crashed in the driveway at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, killing …

By Shana Beth Mason   Is it possible for a junkie to make or understand the gravitas of a promise? If so, would that promise …

by Paul J. Karlstrom   The Legacy:   Given its relative youth, the San Francisco Bay Area can justifiably boast a remarkable art history going …

Lessons from Egypt:  “Revolution Is Art!” A Western Fantasy?   By Peter Dobey       One year ago Egyptians were not fighting, but celebrating …

By John Held, Jr.       When I first arrived in San Francisco in 1995, one of the first calls I made was to …

By Shana Beth Mason       Standing in the main courtyard of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, three wings are joined end-to-end, …

By Maria Nicolacopoulou   On January 31, 2013 Roberta Smith wrote an article in the New York Times titled Curator, Tear Down These Walls, where …

by John Held, Jr.       If I were a major contemporary exhibiting artist, even I might be impressed if a work of mine …