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 [...]
Monday, March 12, 2012
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
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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, December 6, 2011
Beat by the Bay, San Francisco Visual Artists of the Fifties and Their Galleries, Ever Gold, December 8, 2011 – January 6, 2012 Everybody’s heard of the literary works produced by the great writers of the Beat generation, like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. But that legendary countercultural movement also included visual artists, who without [...]
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 [...]
Friday, October 21, 2011
This fall and winter, the museum world in Southern California will be dominated by Pacific Standard Time–a gargantuan initiative by the Getty meant to celebrate the postwar art of the region. Not long ago I headed down south to check it out. My first stop was the Long Beach Museum of Art, which decided to [...]
Monday, October 17, 2011
San Francisco has a fair amount of great art events (screenings, performances, lectures, exhibition openings, etc.) happening every week, so we decided to start this wonderful listing column. We at eventseekr blog monitor lots and lots of art venues, but something might still fall through the cracks – so if you know of any cool [...]
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
One of the first times I saw the work of Richard Serra in person was on a warm San Francisco afternoon, when I took a walk from the China Basin neighborhood to Mission Bay. China Basin, with its newly built condominiums, neat cafes, and picturesque floating homes, projects the air of inconspicuous, self-satisfied affluence; this [...]
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