Uwe Frank Laysiepen, known as Ulay, is unarguably one of the foremost photographers and performance artists of our time. However, although critically acclaimed, until recently …

In the mid-1950s, while yet thirteen years old, Henry Martin haunted the Philadelphia Museum of Art, paying special attention to the Walter C. Arensberg Collection, …

The essence of Lee Mingwei’s art lies in the relationships between people—family, friends, and complete strangers. Many of his works invite the viewer to take …

I stop into a morning bar to kill time before meeting with Richard Hell at his East Village apartment. I have a couple whiskeys trying …

Please Come Again By Camilla Candida Donzella (Italy) If it wasn’t for Camilla Candida Donzella I would probably not be making zines or doing much …

The painting shows a cottage, every window brightly lit from an otherwise undepicted interior. Smoke curls from the chimney. A storm runs by, roughly paralleled …

Nicolas Lobo is a Miami-based sculptor and installation artist who has been working on conceptual, sometimes site-specific projects since 2006. Recently, however, he has been …

The following is an excerpt from the third and final chapter of my book Logro, Fracaso, Aspiración: Tres Intentos de Entender el Arte Contemporáneo (2014). …

1. “In 1982, Louise Bourgeois became the first woman to be celebrated by a retrospective at the MoMA, and now at the age of 96, …

The term “globalization” is ubiquitous and imprecise. Nonetheless, it is high time to think about what it means for the art market and the broader …

I’m sitting alone in a crowded station waiting to board my next train to carry me across the border from Southern China into Hanoi, the …

Presented at Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, 2013 (Edited) I’m going to tell some stories off the top of my head—is this thing on? Okay. …

San Francisco Bay Area, the Mediterranean of the West, has nurtured its own world-changing cultural renaissance always placing a premium on imagination, ideas, innovation, and …

Well, Charles, here we go. We’ve known one another pretty well for quite a while.
 For almost 20 years, going back to around ’94 when …

On November 20th, 2014, Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, gave what was touted as his long overdue speech on immigration. In …

When it comes to the creation of digital art or media, risk can be talked about in two different ways. One way is to discuss …

Performance art is getting some attention as of late, but maybe not the kind of attention that it needs. What it is getting is a …

“There’s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we’ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space.” —Jacob Appelbaum, …

Petra Collins is committed and crushing it. In 2014 she staged solo exhibitions of photographs and sculptures, routinely curated all-female group shows, put out major …

For issue 19’s SFAQ[Projects] Tom Sachs has created a pullout poster based off an original piece made for SFAQ[Projects]     Please inquire at info@sfaq.us …