The brilliant editor and critic Thomas B. Hess summed up “the news” in his 1973 yearend column for New York Magazine:   “News in the …

+ Days after being released, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot announced their disbanding during an official Moscow press conference with international press …

“Shelter Serra’s Abject Objects of Desire”   By Carlo McCormick       Hailing from Marin County, California, in the town of Bolinas – a …

Many art publications have been putting out “year-end best-of” lists. (That is all this month’s artforum is.) I don’t care about “ranking” art shows, being …

Patrick Jackson “The Third Floor” Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2600 La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. November 9, 2013 – January 11, 2014   Entering the …

Three art related news items in heavy circulation this week had the common theme of being connected with a crime, a combination that never fails …

“Solid Concept VI” November 13-December 21, 2013 Gallery Paule Anglim 14 Geary Street San Francisco, California   “Pointing the Way Toward What May Be”   …

“Sen” by Lisa Solomon November 15th – December 21st, 2013 Fouladi Projects 1803 Market Street (@Guerrero) San Francisco, CA   Lisa Solomon’s exhibition is more …

  Interview by Alexis Mackenzie   When Chicago based artist Heidi Norton was invited to exhibit at Mark Wolfe Contemporary, San Francisco, it was assumed …

“Yael Davids: A Reading that Writes – A Physcial Act II” December 6 – 22, 2013 Redcat: CalArts Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts 631 West …

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

    By Rudolf Frieling   What is a visitor when he is not a visitor anymore? What are readers when they don‘t read? A …

Interview by Sarah Thibault   I first met Kirk Stoller in 2011 when I moved into a studio next to his in the Dogpatch. I …

By Michael Krouse      “Why does shit have to be so fucked up?” asks Jeremiah Jenkins. Because it is! The world has gone mad. …

By CARLO MCCORMICK       In many ways Ryan McGinley strikes me as one of the hardest working cats in the art world/show business. …

+Many Russians turned red in dismay this week as a building went up in the center of Moscow’s most historic square in the form of …

Interview by Joey Piziali       So Amanda, SFAQ invited us, Romer Young Gallery (San Francisco), to write a piece for their 13th issue …

Yoshi Wada with Tashi Wada Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive Cosponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media November 17, 2013   By John Held, …

By Lani Asher   “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”   – Søren Kierkegaard   Affordable rent, DIY, and …

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. …