One Work: Rindon Johnson’s “Coeval Proposition #1: Tear down so as to make flat…”
With a towering wooden sculpture installed at SculptureCenter, Rindon Johnson reclaims the architecture and symbolism of a Bay Area landmark.
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Material Witnesses: Art and AIDS at the San Francisco Arts Commission
"With(out) With(in) the very moment" brings together a group of eight Bay Area artists whose lives and practices were indelibly marked by their experiences of San Francisco in the early 1990s.
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Conversation Piece: San Francisco’s de Young Museum Celebrates ‘Contemporary Muslim Fashions’
The show brings together 80 ensembles, from streetwear to couture, and travels next to Frankfurt.
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Casanova as Case Study: How Should Art Museums Present Problematic Aspects of the Past?
One current exhibition shows how curators and institutions are rethinking the ways they organize and frame exhibitions on figures whose behavior is considered inappropriate, or even criminal, today.
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‘Julian Paints Before He Even Starts to Paint’: Max Hollein and Julian Schnabel Open Monumental Show in San Francisco
"I think he's really prepared," the artist said of the museum director, who has taped to be director of the Met in New York.
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New York’s Burning in Water Gallery to Open San Francisco Space
The inaugural exhibition, of work by Valerie Hegarty, opens April 24.
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California College of the Arts Appoints Two New Deans
Allison Smith and Tina Takemoto have been tapped for new roles.
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Igniting the Archive
The Mexico-City-based conceptual artist Minerva Cuevas explores the ways in which seemingly banal items like fruit, chocolate, and water reflect the practices and ideology of global capitalism.
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Business by the Bay: Dealers Descend on San Francisco for Untitled and Fog Fairs
The word provincial is sometimes thrown around when discussing the art world in San Francisco. There are the usual complaints that one hears in many metropolitan areas around the country—that…
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Up Close 2016: San Francisco
Kevin Killian discusses exhibitions and changes in the Bay Area over the last year.
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