Art
SAN FRANCISCO — As interest in China grows, so does interest in its art scene. And while I've met countless artists in the US who have wanted to travel to China, the barriers to access remain high, due to language, culture, and cost.
Film
Between the Gothic walls of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, with a choir intoning an ethereal soundtrack from all sides, Marco Brambilla's "Creation (Megaplex)" revealed its vision of humanity from Big Bang to apocalypse in a swirling 3D film.
Art
From hard-edged, angular, and zig-zagging lines inspired by graffiti tagging styles to thick, swooping curved lines reminiscent of calligraphy, Opera Gallery's Saber & Rostarr exhibition sets up a fascinating and fruitful comparison between two artists who combine street culture and aesthetics with
Art
Two words, darlings: art fairs! Frieze New York has spawned a bona fide fair week. But if you suffer from fair fatigue, don't worry: the doctor's got plenty of other recommendations.
Interview
Reuben Negron, an artist who lives and works in Connecticut and New York, is best known for his realistic watercolor depictions of intimate moments, ranging from the raw to the vulnerable. His scenes often give me the impression of looking in a mirror. Negron's series This House of Glass, “an intima
Announcement
Hawaiian-born artist and designer Jasper Wong [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJ0cyI6MTM2Nzg3ODMxNTUwNSwiYXYiOjI3MzcsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjMzNTIxLCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY3IiOjgyMzE0LCJmYyI6MTE0NjcyLCJmbCI6NTU5MzUsIm53IjoyMDcsInJ2IjowLCJwciI6MTY2NSwic3QiOjAsImRpIjoiODU1N2Q3MzQ0Y2NmNDQwZmJjOTY5NjAzZjEyOWI1MDIiLCJ1
Opinion
During the recent restoration of Pinturicchio's Resurrection fresco (1494) on the wall of the Hall of Mysteries in the Borgia Apartment at the Vatican has revealed what may be the first images of Native Americans in European art.
Art
If you're an art-loving person, there's a good chance you've seen work by artists from the Creative Growth Center. Their art has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide; you might, for instance, have strolled past some of it at last fall's Rosemarie Trockel retrospective at the New Museum. But
Music
What happens when you immerse the vocals of a dancehall queen who thrives on pulsing beats in the droning of an art sound machine? That was the experiment set up between Jamaican dub vocalist Warrior Queen and New York artist Marina Rosenfeld in P.A./Hard Love, which had its premiere last weekend at
Art
For more than six months, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have been in the news nonstop. Robert Flynn Johnson, the museums' curator emeritus, summed it up pretty well when he called the museums' situation “a state of Orwellian dysfunction.” And that's just the news that's been reported.
Comics
There are obviously limits to the power of the artist.
Art
MILWAUKEE — When a story, an image of a work of art, or an essay goes viral, it has struck a cultural nerve, somewhere, and people can’t stop passing it on. The work itself becomes freed of the space where it was first realized; it is taken over by global internet culture and social networks, co-opt