Jennie Ottinger’s current solo show “Members Only” at Johansson Projects in Oakland is full of disturbing little malevolent children. Ottinger’s work humorously examines the …

For those who are in the Los Angeles area,  there’s a new bookstore in Culver City that has made a long and strenuous journey from …

To all you disbelievers who thought a cohesive body of work about squirrels and hunting couldn’t possibly exist, shame on you. In “Squirrel Season” at …

Et al., of the most recent curatorial projects turned physical gallery, opened “An exhibition which comes and goes as it pleases” last week in the …

David Zwirner Gallery’s recent group exhibition Folk Devil, curated by Associate Director Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, didn’t exactly breach the conventions of the standard Chelsea group …

Lauren Dare gets very excited when I ask if I can take her picture in front of her artwork.  Dare joined Creative Growth Art Center …

  Currently at Park Life, San Francisco is “Hagazussa”, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Rachel Budde.  In this her current exhibition Rachel Budde explores …

by Paul J. Karlstrom   The Legacy:   Given its relative youth, the San Francisco Bay Area can justifiably boast a remarkable art history going …

  “Sallie Gardner,” Eaweard Muybridge’s 1898 experimentation in moving image is a behemoth of an idea that went on to permeate the globe over. Empires …

By John Held, Jr.       Most of the Tenderloin galleries are open Wednesday through Saturday, so I chose a Thursday afternoon to take …

  Currently on view at Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek is “Larger than Life,” a group exhibition that explores how contemporary artists have begun to use …

    Currently on view at Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, CA is “Summer Salon”, a group exhibition of masterworks by artists working in …

By John Held, Jr.       I took an afternoon to acquaint myself with the latest happenings in the Tenderloin art scene. It wasn’t …

Lessons from Egypt:  “Revolution Is Art!” A Western Fantasy?   By Peter Dobey       One year ago Egyptians were not fighting, but celebrating …

  The six Romanians accused of committing one of the largest art thefts of the last century will begin trial in Bucharest Tuesday.   In …

By John Held, Jr.       When I first arrived in San Francisco in 1995, one of the first calls I made was to …

Two more artists in the show Practice to Pretend play with the ideas of representation and abstraction. The work of both Rebekah Goldstein and Nikki …

  This summer, Creative Time is heading back out to Far Rockaway to host its second annual Artist Sandcastle Competition! on Friday, August 9th. Aa …

  Surf and Turf is an exhibition of primarily multi-media work from three contemporary female artists. Each artist is currently working in a different region …

By Shana Beth Mason       Standing in the main courtyard of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, three wings are joined end-to-end, …