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Matthew Harrison Tedford
Matthew Harrison Tedford is a writer and filmmaker living in San Francisco. He writes about contemporary art and film with a focus on historical memory and landscape. Matthew's writing appears in KQED, SF Weekly, Sculpture Nature, Art Practical, Daily Serving, and Mubi.com's Notebook. You can follow him on Instagram at @mhtedford.
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San Francisco’s New Transit Center Features Public Art by Jenny Holzer, Julie Chang, and Ned Kahn
A new transit center filled with on-site public art opens in San Francisco.
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Walker Evans’s Eye on the City
While Walker Evans may be best known for his photographs from small towns across the US during the Great Depression, an exhibition at SFMOMA shows him also as a longtime New Yorker fascinated with the particulars of urban life.
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The Politics of Representing Landscapes
Unsettled, an exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, in Reno, explores how artists have interpreted the dramatic landscapes of the western edge of the American continents.
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Erotic Art at the Intersection of Queer and Chicanx Identities
The works in Queerly Tèhuäntin | Cuir Us bring together a community’s wide-ranging self-representations, from macabre self-portraits to Chicana punk screenprints.
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The Museum of Capitalism Isn’t Buying Our Prevailing Economic Model
Museum of Capitalism, a pop-up exhibition in Oakland presenting itself as a fully functioning museum, attempts to shift our perspective and give viewers a bird’s-eye view of capitalism.
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The American Landscape Photographers Who Focused on the Environment in the ’70s
A desire to avoid romanticizing the landscape is fundamental to the shifts in landscape photography that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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The Evolution of Diane Arbus in 35mm
The exhibition diane arbus: in the beginning gathers images the photographer shot between 1956 and 1962, when she started using the distinctive Rolleiflex camera with which she captured her most famous photos.