The curator, writer, and teacher’s memoir winds its way through his four-decade career, arriving, geographically and conceptually, back where he started.
Bay Area
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The Goddess Element in Eco-Feminist Art
Painter Kei Imazu approaches the contemporary realities of colonialism and climate destruction through ancient Indonesian myth.
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10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Summer
Insightful, generous, radical, and very “Bay way” shows, including Bernice Bing, Estefania Puerta, Remedios Varo, Frank Bowling, and more.
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Photography’s Power to Dismantle Orthodoxies
Dismantling Monoliths at SF Camerawork pits artists against the Western canon of photography.
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Mildred Howard’s Art of Giving
She has raised generations of Bay Area artists and changed the local landscape with her public artworks, colleagues tell Hyperallergic.
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What to See in San Francisco’s Art Week
Shows not to be missed during the Bay Area’s mid-January flurry of art activity.
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Rumors About Death of the Bay Area Art Scene Are Greatly Exaggerated
Local artists and curators took issue with a New York Times report announcing the demise of the local art scene in light of the departure of two blue-chip galleries.
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Paintings by Bay Area Artist Mitchell Johnson on View Now in Menlo Park and NYC
Johnson’s paintings can be seen at Flea Street in Menlo Park, California, and in a group exhibition at Questroyal Fine Art in New York City.
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Bay Area Artists Put Together an A-Z Guide for Forming a Museum Union
The artists released the risograph-printed booklet series Organizing Power to assist in the arduous process of assembling a bargaining unit and negotiating.
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Remembering Susan Landauer, a Curator Who Championed California Art
“No other scholar has contributed as much to the study of California art,” says critic and curator Michael Duncan.
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YBCA Presents Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America?
Join the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts online as they develop programming committed to offering the Bay Area inspiration and hope around the 2020 US Census.
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“It’s a Gold Rush Town”: How Artists Survive in San Francisco
Hyperallergic talks to various artists in the Bay Area about how they’ve hung on through years of economic turmoil.
