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
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 [...]
Friday, March 9, 2012
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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, January 31, 2012
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
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 [...]
Friday, November 18, 2011
Strangely enough, at the press preview of the “Pissarro’s People” exhibition at the Legion of Honor, every time the museum director said the painter’s last name, I kept hearing “Bizarro.” That would be an ill-fitting name for the Impressionist master, since there is nothing bizarre in his oeuvre. In fact, he made a point of [...]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Unlike the Picasso, Warhol, or Impressionism exhibitions that the de Young has presented in recent years, “Masters of Venice” is not very big–only about 50 pieces. But those pieces are extremely famous. One even wonders how the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna let them travel over the ocean, since most of them will soon be 500 [...]
Monday, November 14, 2011
I’ve diligently walked through the “Man as Object” show, but I still don’t think I fully understood what the curators meant by “objectifying men.” Male artists have created sexualized depictions of women’s bodies for centuries, and now, as the statement goes, it’s time for ladies to do the same with men. And indeed, images of [...]
Monday, November 7, 2011
Francesca Woodman, SFMOMA, November 5, 2011 – February 20, 2012 One of the strengths of the SFMOMA is its photography program. This season the museum will host an exhibition of photographs by Francesca Woodman, which will be the first major show of her work in the United States (it will later travel to the Guggenheim). [...]
Monday, October 31, 2011
Urbanized, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, November 4-10. You have probably seen (or at least heard about) Helvetica, a popular documentary by Gary Hustwit about typography and its relationship to how we see things. Now, the YBCA will be screening Urbanized, Hustwit’s new movie which focuses primarily on urban design. You can check the [...]
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