SAN FRANCISCO — Curated by students of the Curatorial Studies program at the California College of the Arts, this compact, well-considered gathering of work across many media by Martin Wong is a marvel of what the small-scale and seemingly ephemeral can communicate.
Brian Karl
Brian Karl has been directing things — mostly words and pictures — for years. This includes organizational stints at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts, as well as independent production of video projects that have been exhibited and screened at museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. His current work-in-progress, Death/Fast, is an experimental documentary on the long-term hunger strikes by political prisoners in contemporary Turkey.
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Mass Surveillance Hidden in Plain Sight
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s been two centuries since Jeremy Bentham introduced the panopticon into structures of confinement and surveillance, including penitentiaries and mental institutions.
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Alec Soth’s Photographs Mine the Margins of the US
SAN FRANCISCO — Alec Soth’s latest multi-year investigation of life in the hinterlands of the United States is a refined version of the now venerable notion of the photographic road trip.
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Underpaid Labor at the Art Show
My friend was trying to convince me the other day that $20 was not an unreasonable amount for a museum to ask visitors to pay. We were standing in the lobby of the Whitney shortly after the Biennial had opened, and maybe I was having none of it simply because I was feeling snarky while remembering previous years when I occasionally got invited to the press opening or whatever. Or maybe it was because I’m basically a starving student still, while already well-advanced in years, and such amounts really are a significant outlay for me.
