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 [...]
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Anyone who is a fan of dance music definitely knows who Justice is. Even those with only just a passing interest in dance music will still likely know who Justice is. I definitely fall into the former, and hold Justice’s Cross album in especially high esteem. So when it was announced earlier this year that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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