She has raised generations of Bay Area artists and changed the local landscape with her public artworks, colleagues tell Hyperallergic.
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LA to Distribute $26M to Arts Nonprofits
Applications are now open for Creative Recovery LA, a new initiative focused on arts organizations hardest hit by the pandemic.
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A Darkly Whimsical Take on Feminine Sexuality
Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s exhibition A Pancake Moon made me reflect on my experience of freezing my eggs.
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SF Gallerist Arrested for Hosing Down Unhoused Woman
“The alleged battery of an unhoused member of our community is completely unacceptable,” said the city’s district attorney.
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Getty Institute Acquires Trove of British Raj-Era Photography
The collection includes many images of the region as seen through a European lens and the Western gaze.
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Artist Honors Unhoused Woman Hosed Down by SF Dealer
Courtney Desiree Morris staged a thoughtful performance as “a reckoning with the violence” of the gallerist’s actions.
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At the Japanese American National Museum, a Book Becomes a Monument
Internment camp survivors and their descendants are invited to stamp Ireichō, a book that represents the first definitive count of those incarcerated.
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SF Gallery Owner Blasted for Hosing Down Unhoused Woman
Foster Gwin Gallery has deactivated its social media accounts since its owner, Collier Gwin, was filmed spraying down a woman on the sidewalk.
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New Residency Gives Ukrainian Artists a Platform in LA
Founded by LA-based curator Asha Bukojemsky, Kyiv to LA will host six artists from Ukraine across different participating venues.
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Chloë Bass Disarms With Beauty
The multiform artist quietly coaxes us to see the world as a means to look inward.
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Statue of Native Activist Mysteriously Lost (and Found) in Oakland
Artist Rigo 23’s sculpture of Leonard Peltier was eventually found with its arm missing and racist graffiti scrawled on a U-Haul truck in which it was being transported.
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A Devastating and Breathtaking Vision of Climate Change
Dean Byington’s Cassandra warning call in his art reveals the world we know as a facade teetering on the brink of collapse.