The Nigeria pavilion, themed around the concept of “now,” hopes to shape a cultural and national identity outside of the colonialist narrative that the country has long been forced into.
Abby Margulies
Abby Margulies is a freelance writer living in the Bay Area, and the senior arts editor for Guernica.
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Gazing at Photographs that Look At and Past Us
SAN FRANCISCO — “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me […] It is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass,” Ralph Ellison’s narrator declares in Invisible Man.
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Artists Disrupt and Deconstruct the Modern Workplace
SAN FRANCISCO — I will admit that it had been a long day filled with mundane tasks — conference calls, email catch-up, copyediting — when I wandered into the exhibition Office Space, currently on view at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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Inside Richard Diebenkorn’s Revelatory Sketchbooks
STANFORD, Calif. — A small gallery at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center is currently offering a deeply personal glimpse into the life and work of Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn.
