“Crown Point Press at 50” at the de Young Museum
Kathan Brown established San Francisco’s Crown Point Press fifty years ago as an alternative printmaking space focusing on intaglio. Intaglio is a subtractive, multi-process method …
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“Miriam Böhm: Before in Front” at Ratio 3
Miriam Böhm takes a photograph of something banal, prints it, alters it (re-sizes it, folds it, tilts it, or turns it into an accordion …
Duncan Hannah at Modernism
The sort of people who venerate “The Great Gatsby” and the 1920s are teenagers, or adults whose circumstances never necessitated that they mature past …
“Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art” at SFMOMA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art describes it’s exhibit “Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art” as bringing together “burgeoning …
“Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye” at SFMOMA
A retrospective of Jasper John’s paintings of symbols opened today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Remember: the symbols are not supposed …
“Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective” at SFMOMA
With limited exposure to Jay DeFeo’s work, it can seem depressive. Her eight-year obsessive creation, the over 2,000-pound painting “The Rose” with so much …
Interacting with Architecture and Talking with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at SFMOMA
Tonight at 7 pm, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will speak about his works at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His delightfully unnerving …
“Eating Out of the Drain: Chris Lux & Dane Johnson” at the Popular Workshop
Every song Depeche Mode has ever made is about at least one of the following ideas: sex with pain is fun, piety is overrated, …
“Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962” at MOCA, Los Angeles
Paul Schimmel’s last exhibit as chief curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is consistent with the art historical revisionism for which …
ATTACHMENTS at The Hole
The Hole’s Kathy Grayson and photographer, and former Vice Magazine photo editor, Tim Barber curated the group show “ATTACHMENTS,” which opens on Saturday, …
“Collect the WWWorld” Tonight at 319 Scholes
http://vimeo.com/33735117 After exhibitions in Brescia, Italy and Basel, the latest exhibition of “Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age” …
Survival Research Laboratories’ Mark Pauline at SFAI
Mark Pauline created Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) in 1978, to create art that has a “unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special …
Richard Gordon at Gitterman Gallery
Richard Gordon made photographs with the kind of clarity of thought that reveals extraordinary images in everyday scenes: capturing rhythm, seeing humor, …
Marlborough Chelsea: Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe’s “Stray Light Grey”
Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe have made another installation that is a world unto itself, (smells, and artifacts contextualized in their created reality) …
LSD Blotter Art Historian Mark McCloud at Ever Gold Gallery
Collector and historian of LSD blotters Mark McCloud will talk about the history of psychedelics at Ever Gold Gallery on Thursday, October 11 …
Riding an Infinite Wave of Vacuity: Richard Phillips’ LiLo
If you are in the mood for some Schadenfreude, there are just ten days left to see Richard Phillips at Gagosian’s West 24th …
Where Only Robert Pattinson Can Hear You Scream: Lutz Bacher at Ratio 3
Ratio 3’s new gallery on Mission Street was revealed this past Friday; it’s huge, it’s beautiful, and the florescent lights high in the …
Art.sy Goes Public
Art.sy opened to the public today, after nearly two years of “invitation only” testing. Actually, if you didn’t get an invitation from a …
Déjà vu: Grady Gordon’s “You Remind Me of Someone I’ve Never Met”
Grady Gordon’s monotype prints are primal, sometimes strangely adorable, and, on occasion, fall into the I-want-to-look-but-I-don’t-want-to-look category also …
Oh Jasper…
When you are young and impressionable, or old and a fool, it can be difficult to know when to call bullshit on people in …