Keizo Kitajima USSR 1991 at Little Big Man Gallery
By Kendall George, March 5, 2013 Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost (“openness”) and easing of censorship allowed Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima behind the Iron Curtain in the …
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Lunch Bytes
By Kendall George, February 27, 2013 Lunch Bytes is a consortium of digital artists, the Goethe-Institut Washington, Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the …
Looking at Cats Online: The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium
By Kendall George, February 26, 2013 One hundred years ago, visitors and critics loathed Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” at the Armory …
Lebbeus Woods, Architect at SFMOMA
By Kendall George, February 25, 2013 Only one design by architect Lebbeus Woods was actually completed before his death, the “Light Pavillion” within Sliced Porosity …
(Almost) Free Formed: Celebrating Old Days and Hoping for New Times at CCSF: Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, and Laurie Reid
By Kendall George, February 20, 2013 In 1996 Barry McGee’s “Untitled” was installed at SFMOMA’s Artists Gallery as a 200-piece tessellation of framed ballpoint drawings …
Jason Hanasik at the SFAC
By Kendall George, February 19, 2013 Moving to a new home is a projection of a new life. Unless your move is a significant downgrade, …
Kehinde Wiley’s The World Stage: Israel
Kendall George Kehinde Wiley has been making paintings of black men in Old Master’s poses with Rococo wallpaper backgrounds for over ten years now. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Punch Card at Catharine Clark Gallery
At the opening of the group show “Punch Card” at Catharine Clark Gallery, artist Andy Diaz Hope said he and co-creator Laurel Roth wanted to …
Claire Fontaine at Queen’s Nails
Claire Fontaine, the Paris-based art collective with a readymade name taken from notebooks, will open the exhibition “Sell Your Debt” at Queen’s Nails tonight …
Christopher Baird’s “Bad Company”
Christopher Baird wrote to Bob Linder that his new show, “Bad Company” at Park Life’s gallery, was inspired by the same sort of paperbacks …
Amanda Curreri’s “The Aunque” at Romer Young Gallery
Amanda Curreri’s “The Aunque,”“even though” in Spanish, at Romer Young Gallery shows pieces of the complicated history of the gay rights movement. A flag with …