The infamous San Francisco fog gave way to sunny skies and weather suitable for swimwear last Saturday. The temperature was raised even higher at Project Inform’s SwimWear For A Cause runway fundraiser. Project Inform is an organization that promotes activism and leadership to end HIV/AIDS. The organization was founded in 1985 and continues to educate people living [...]
Monday, April 16, 2012 By Julia Glosemeyer
The Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective at the de Young museum covers 35 years of work–that’s a lot. You feel it most acutely because the exhibition is an overload of spectacular. JPG-designed clothes in themselves would be enough: each outfit is terrifically elaborate (don’t try to figure out how many hours were spent making them or [...]
Thursday, April 12, 2012 By Julia Glosemeyer
Watching Fulll Firearms, a 2011 feature film by London-based artist Emily Wardill, I thought of a quote by French philosopher Jacques Derrida: “As marginal people excluded from the process of production and circulation, the poor come to represent the gods or the dead. They occupy the place of the dead man or the spirit, the [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 By Nathan Cranford
Last weekend at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, I had the unique opportunity to view a showcase by two of the major figures of contemporary performance art: the husband and wife team Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake, more popularly known simply as Eiko and Koma. Eiko & Koma, Fragile ‐ Photo by Anna [...]
Monday, March 12, 2012 By Julia Glosemeyer
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective | until May 28 | SFMOMA | San Francisco As famed art critic Boris Groys persuasively argues in his book Art Power, the museum nowadays is a place “where we can learn to resist the dictatorship of contemporary taste.” That is, the museum offers us something that counters the image of [...]
Friday, March 9, 2012 By Julia Glosemeyer
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With its new exhibition, The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860-1900, the Legion of Honor gives San Francisco viewers a primer on a 19th-century art movement that was fascinating in many aspects. In hellish Victorian London, where in 1884 cultural critic John Ruskin talked of a polluted “plague-cloud” and a “fatal infection of the sky,” a [...]
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 By Joey Pangilinan
The Creators Project, a global arts and technology initiative founded by Vice and Intel, will be taking their show on the road this month to San Francisco’s Fort Mason. The weekend of March 17th and 18th will mark the first ever time the Creators Project has held an event on the U.S. West Coast. The [...]
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 By Julia Glosemeyer
State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 | February 29 to June 17, 2012 | Berkeley Art Museum | Berkeley Since October 2011, a large number of art institutions in Southern California have been overtaken by Pacific Standard Time, an unprecedented, Getty Foundation-financed orgy of exhibitions and events dedicated to postwar Californian art (1945-1980). [...]
Monday, January 23, 2012 By Julia Glosemeyer
The Forgotten Space by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, San Francisco Art Institute, January 25, 7:30pm. If you don’t believe that a film about the shipping industry can be interesting and engaging, think again. The Forgotten Space, based on Sekula’s long-term photographic project, Fish Story, is a timely exploration of the effects of globalization and [...]
Thursday, January 12, 2012 By Julia Glosemeyer
HUMBLE POP ARTISTS AT THE BERKELEY ART MUSEUM One of the foremost innovations of 20th-century visual culture was that art started to look humble. Seeing Kurt Schwitters’ fragile little collages, made out of various scraps and trash, at the Berkeley museum a few months ago was like an invigorating slap in the face. Schwitters worked [...]
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