Third Morning: Being Hit by a Soft Buick Mid-morning phone call: “Jarrett—Dave. I’m going to leave tomorrow because I’m not having any fun. But I …

The circumstances were perhaps special on the early afternoon of May 31st, 2013 in central Istanbul, when disproportionate use of violence by police forces, in …

I swear, we were there on time. The website said that the recent incarnation of the Agnes Denes Wheatfield in Milan would be open until …

For most of recorded human history, the tallest buildings in the world have been religious: the physical manifestations of power and magic. Constructed to be …

Born in Seattle in 1943, Terry Fox came to San Francisco in the 1960s, and lived and worked between the Bay Area and Europe until …

For more than four decades, Lita Albuquerque has been on a diversified yet aesthetically and conceptually cohesive mission, making installations, ephemeral environments, performances involving the …

1. Christmas in a Cage January 1982 Shortly before 6 a.m., the speaker in this tiny, barren cell blares a message, said to be from …

Standing around the Parking Lot Art Fair in San Francisco last May, I was surrounded by a variety of artists who showed up by 7 …

The following conversation took place at Paul Karlstrom’s San Francisco home on March 22, 2014, the day after the opening of Brooklyn–based Jemima Kirke’s first …

You can see the drought if you stare into the end of your faucet, like staring at the black part of a candle flame. This …

Janice Guy and Margaret Murray opened Murray Guy Gallery in 1998 on 17th Street near 10th Avenue in Chelsea. The gallery, highly regarded for its …

Dedicated, as promised, to Dave Hickey Everyone remembers one’s first time. In 2002, I first heard a lecture by an international curator,1 that is, one …

Petra: hiii are we good Madelyne: Hiiii! Ya,So How have you been feeling this summer overall? P: lol like shit L.A really bums me out …

Los Angeles-based artist Math Bass, whose current solo show Off the Clock at MoMA PS1 runs through August 31st, 2015, has been carving out a …

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

It’s never a good look to admit to partiality. It belies the pretense of objectivity upon which criticism rests its dubious authority and inevitably fesses …

The Seattle Art Fair has generated a significant buzz for being one of the first instances of an earnest attempt to marry tech money with …

Are you never tired of Facebook? No, it’s an amazing platform. It’s given me an audience of thousands of people for free. To which extent …

I see you, in my mind’s eye, moving along a diagonal axis. You said something to this effect in an interview a few years ago, …

  SFAQ is pleased to announce the release of our new magazine, NYAQ (New York Art Quarterly) which will join SFAQ (San Francisco Art Quarterly) …