It has long been established that digital networks radicalized the ways in which contemporary moving-image and media artworks are distributed. Even before YouTube, network technology …

Last year during the holiday season I sat in my family’s living room browsing Facebook on my iPhone while passively experiencing my brother’s Call of …

Chris Lux: With Nude Spoons Et al. 620 Kearny St., San Francisco CA 94108 November 13 – December 19, 2015 Entering Chris Lux’s solo exhibition …

Living in Cambodia, I am sometimes offered brides. I go to eat dinner at a food stand and the owner suggests I meet her daughter, …

“Everything here is built to scale,” I’m told, standing before a haul truck approximately the size of a two-story house. The person telling me this …

I was late to the Mark Lombardi party. It was not until the beginning of 2004 that I had ever heard about him or his …

Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s–Now Mills College Art Museum 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland CA 94613 September 16 – December 13, 2015 In reading the title for …

Art Basel Miami Beach December 3 – 6, 2015 My, how color has returned! Dealers and artists certainly did not shy away from bold, outrageous …

From the Singular to the Indexical in Contemporary Portraiture For the past 14 years Paul Mpagi Sepuya has lived in New York and worked as a …

An old, white fishing boat journeys up and down the Bosphorus from the Golden Horn and is seen from various places in Istanbul throughout the …

James Welling: Choreograph David Zwirner 519 West 19th Street, New York NY 10011 November 18, 2015 – January 16, 2016 I was trained in classical ballet, …

The fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent famously quipped that “fashions fade, style is eternal.” This enigmatic statement does much to elucidate the powerful place that …

Julian Hoeber: The Inward Turn Jessica Silverman Gallery 488 Ellis St., San Francisco CA 94102 November 6 – December 19, 2015 Upon entering Julian Hoeber’s …

Among the things most Americans have long seemed to believe about our country is the idea that in some sense, we’re all part of one …

The Mapmaker’s Dream: Marius Bercea, Maurizio Anzeri, Linda Connor, Chris McCaw, Pae White. Haines Gallery 49 Geary Street, Suite 540, San Francisco, CA 94108 November …

China Now: Independent Visions Cinema on the Edge Global Tour San Francisco (various locations) November 19-22, 2015 Pace Godard, “The problem is not to make …

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Chris Johanson: Equations Altman Siegel 49 Geary St, [4th floor], San Francisco CA 94108 November 6 – December 19, 2015 Being in a room of …

“elevates copying to an art, but”1 In March, at Brown University, white conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith stood before an audience and read his new “poem,” which was …

First Chapter : Des Absents Cercle de la Horla 16, rue du Vertbois 75003 Paris October 23 – December 18, 2015 Within this heavy breathing world …