Currently up at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is a show to overcome some of those summertime art world blahs. “Surfacing,” a group show of …

By Shana Beth Mason   Is it possible for a junkie to make or understand the gravitas of a promise? If so, would that promise …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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

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

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 …

Evan Nesbit & Kate Bonner   All the work in the show Practicing to Pretend, curated by Melissa Dickenson and William Emmert now up at …

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

  “Being in Indonesia today is like being in Germany fifty years after the Second World War and finding out that the Nazis were still …

I’m going tell you a little bit, very quickly, about Folklore, the group show that Evan Hecox curated recently at Joshua Liner Gallery. But first, …

    Sarah Cain’s exhibition “Loud Object” at Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco simply and articulately addresses that nagging question that’s plagued the …

Ceramics requires understanding two things. First, its maturation processes are not those of proliferation, but of diminishment. Its final fired form must deal with shrinkage …

By Maria Nicolacopoulou   On January 31, 2013 Roberta Smith wrote an article in the New York Times titled Curator, Tear Down These Walls, where …

    I am convinced that White Snow is one of the great works of our century, as sprawling, multivalent and rich as the novels …

I recently popped into tiny Brooklyn gallery Beginnings for the (very sweaty) opening of  James Ulmer’s current exhibition “Drawings”. Ulmer, a native of Philadelphia and …

by John Held, Jr.       If I were a major contemporary exhibiting artist, even I might be impressed if a work of mine …

I’ve been a fan of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s work for a few years now, and her current show, “A Haunted Capital” (her first solo show …