Art
Blending tech, artistic creativity
In S.F., there's a group of people exploring the intersection of programming, politics and art with their new digital Bauhaus: Gray Area.
The space between Victorians
The exhibit "The Urban Unseen" brings together architects and artists to examine the spaces between San Francisco's famous houses.
Sprucing up the art
One of S.F.'s most noticed works of public art, Brian Goggin's "Defenestration" (1997), has begun to show its age.
Deeply sensual, wispily ethereal
Patricia Tobacco Forrester's "Realism Crossing Into Fantasy" blurs the lines between imagined topographies and actual ones.
From cardboard to art
Ann Weber relies on a $25 Arrow P-22 stapler, a box cutter, shellac and loads of cardboard pulled from trash bins to create her sculptures.
Responding to 'Mein Kampf'
Linda Ellia invited hundreds of people from all over the world to express their emotions through art in the infamous book. Review.
Murals that keep graffiti away
The current notion is that the best way to fight graffiti is to cover San Francisco in murals.
Silent vulnerability makes noise
With his films, Nathaniel Dorsky aims to transform the screen into an object of beauty.
An intense engagement
If anyone merits the description "self-taught artist," it's James Castle.
Strange magic
No survey of Wayne Thiebaud's art has underlined his sense of humor as does "Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting."
A turbulent 'Affects/Effects'
Painter Robin McDonnell confronts the problem of making new work in what amounts to a period idiom: Abstract Expressionism.
Decoding Guston's work
In Philip Guston pieces such as "Evidence," there is an intentness and luxuriance of brushwork familiar from his best abstractions.
Too little on too much
"Shanghai: Art of the City," at the Asian Art Museum, ends up telling visitors too little about too much.
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