By John Held, Jr.         Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Future Woman” George Krevsky Gallery, San Fracnisco May 30-June 29, 2013 77 Geary Street #205 …

By William J. Simmons       In 2001-2002, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art commissioned the prolific new-media and performance artist Lynn Hershman …

David Jones and Dan Max “Split Personality” May 21-26, 2013 Live Worms Gallery 1345 Grant Avenue North Beach, San Francisco   By John Held, Jr. …

By Chris Rusak   The innards between walls, the voids between floors, the dark provinces of musty storage spaces, these are the omitted destinations of …

by Sarah Thibault       Erik Scollon’s new exhibition at Romer Young, A Moment Lasts Forever Until It’s Gone, is an introspective collection of …

Interview by Alberto Cuadros       Alberto Cuadros:    I’m here with Orion Shepherd to discuss his recent show, The Poseidon Adventure, which opened at …

By John Held, Jr.       It was a two-ring circus this year, not a three-ringer like last year, but there was still plenty …

  At-Large correspondents, CIA and Rives Granade, visited the inaugural Paris Photo art fair in Los Angeles last weekend at Paramount Studios. Paris Photo is …

  In its second edition, Frieze New York hit Randall’s Island with a shit load of art from about 180 galleries worldwide.  According to Frieze, …

By John Held, Jr.   Asian American Women Artists Association “underCurrents and the Quest for Space” May 2-May 25, 2013 SOMArts Cultural Center 934 Brannan …

  Aggregate Space is a relatively new artist-run exhibition and studio space in West Oakland, close to Downtown. Built from the ground up in an …

Reviewed by Gianni Simone       When Snow White appears from the maze of boxes and wires that crowd a corner of the Tokyo …

By John Held, Jr.   The guy who made me (and a lot of other people) an artist died on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 at …

  Adrian Ghenie’s paintings have a magical balance between the grotesque and fantastical, coupling the surreal with the familiar.  The work harbors an air of …

  RICHARD DIEBENKORN: The Berkeley Years, 1952-1966, TOM MARIONI: MOCA (MUSEUM OF CONCEPTUAL ART) 1970-1984, THE WATARI MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART. ABSOLUTE FEEDBACK: Notes on …

Mexico City is a city of full mouth kissing, dirty air, hundreds of book stores, endless cups of espresso, heavy eye make-up, hair gel, guitarists, …

  Can you tell us some history about yourself.  Where you grew up, where you went to school and so on.   I was raised …

Eleanor Coppola: “Scrolls” April 10-May 4, 2013 Gallery Paule Anglim 14 Geary Street San Francisco, CA   -by John Held, Jr.     There is …

Today seemed particularly cacophonous as I walked the galleries at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacifica Film Archive (BAM/PFA) the L@TE Friday Nights performance series in …

  “Is oil worth our health?”   This is the crucial question posed by architect and environmentalist Kate Orff in her contribution to the book …