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Alone and Forsaken: The Art of George W. Bush
Who knew? Probably one of the most despised, or at least generally disliked man on the planet, is also a bit of an artist …
Driss Ouadahi’s “Trans-Location” at Hosfelt Gallery
Driss Ouadahi was born in Casablanca, studied architecture in Algiers, and painting at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany. It’s a tidy corollary then, that the …
Artadia Award Finalist’s Exhibition: Opening Tuesday, Feb 12th
Opening tomorrow night is an exhibition of the 10 finalists from the current round of the Artadia Award highlighting Bay Area artists. Over 430 applications …
Aaron Bobrow’s “Electric Bathing” at Andrea Rosen Gallery
Aaron Bobrow’s first solo exhibition, Electric Bathing, is on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City. The show takes its name from architectural theorist …
MFA Now 2013 at Root Division, San Francisco
Root Division presents MFA Now 2013, an archive project featuring Bay Area MFA Candidates and juried exhibition presenting twenty-six of those artists’ work. Opening …
“Heavy Hand” by Nina Beier at STANDARD, Oslo, Norway
Growing up in Los Angeles, I have spent a majority of my life in traffic, looking out the window watching disgruntled individuals make their way …
Gutai at SFAI tonight
It’s no secret we are big fans of Gutai, it was the cover story for issue 11 and in our new issue, 12, we have …
Get Dizzy
This month, the once acid-dropping deadhead-turned art dealer, Jack Hanley, dazzles his gallery loyalists with the instable, meticulous, confusing and populist art of Brooklyn-based …
Colter Jacobsen’s “Scanning the long sleeves of the shore” at Gallery Paule Anglim
Colter Jacobsen created the charmingly off double drawings of snapshots, side by side, in the 2010 SECA exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern …
Sport for Indoor Kids: Art Auctions
I never understood following sports I didn’t participate in until I watched an art auction online. It makes sense: auctions move fast; prices are volatile …
“Post Hope” at LVL3, Chicago
Oh Chicago, how I wish I was there to see this exhibition in person, but due to pockets with eternal holes at the bottom …
About Face at Pier 24 Photography
Portraiture is only as good as its ability to capture personality, culture, and era. In great photographs, a complete world is presented, even if it’s …
Pick up Locations: February 1st
The new issue #12 of SFAQ is now available at the locations below. More locations will be updated as soon as copies are delivered. If …
WATERSPORTS with Warhol
After around 40 years of gathering dust, San Diego Surf debuted for the first time at MoMA this year. Paul Morrissey, co-director …
Jeremy Shaw at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver
Jeremy Shaw “Trancendental Capacity ” Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver January 17 – February 28, 2013 Last year, during Art Basel 43 …
transmediale 2013
The art, technology, and culture festival transmediale is underway in Berlin, and this year’s theme is Back When Pluto Was a Planet. transmediale describes …
ALTAR this Friday at The Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco
Coming into 2013 is an exciting curatorial project by Nikki Mirsaeid, and Taj Robinson titled ALTAR. Everyone who is involved in the arts has …
Jay Howell’s “Enthusiastic Person” at FFDG
The prolific artist Jay Howell makes zines, animations, paintings, comics, ceramic sculpture, and designs skate decks. His chinless dudes are skaters, in motorcycle gangs, …
Small Gems: A Winter Group Show at Crown Point Press
Intaglio prints often look reserved because the process of making them is precisely sequential, with acid baths, scratching into grounds, and paper placement. In books …