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SFMOMA’s 2019 SECA Art Award

Emily S. Mendel November 20, 2019 San Francisco,

Since 1967, the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has honored more than 90 Bay Area emerging or under-recognized artists with its SECA Art Award. The 2019 SECA ...

Soul of a Nation

Art in the Age of Black Power

Emily S. Mendel November 11, 2019 San Francisco,

“Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 –1983” celebrates and dignifies the significant body of artwork by African American artists that was crucial to the black experience and American history. This remarkable and vital exhibition captures a volatile ...

Nikhil Chopra. Drawing a Line Through Landscape.

Soft Power

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Emily S. Mendel October 26, 2019 San Francisco,

In a departure from its typical retrospective or mid-career show of a sole contemporary or renowned artist, (typically in the past, a white male), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is presenting new and recent works by ...

Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT)

Interview with Director Vlanka Robles-Santana

Toba Singer September 21, 2019

The Tijuana [Mexico] Cultural Center merits a far more titillating acronym than CECUT! It stands out as one of my two favorite Tijuana institutions (the other being the Dance Conservatory of Mexico/Conservatorio de Danza de Mexico-CDM). Built in 1982, ...

Helen Mirra. May-Overlook-Green Gulch Redwood Creek

No Horizon: Recent Art Works by Helen Mirra and Sean Thackrey

Emily S. Mendel July 17, 2019 Berkeley,

On display in one large gallery at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is “No Horizon,” comprising the recent works of two contemporary Bay Area artists, Helen Mirra, and Sean Thackrey. Their ethos has been influenced ...

Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Emily S. Mendel May 18, 2019 San Francisco,

The first retrospective organized in the U.S. since 1989 looks afresh at the oeuvre of Andy Warhol (1928–1987), one of the most talented American artists of the second half of the 20th century. He was a creative and thoughtful ...

Lenn Keller Collection, Collection of Bay Area Lesbian Archives

Queer California: Untold Stories

Oakland Museum of California

Emily S. Mendel April 22, 2019 Oakland,

The distinctive multimedia and interactive exhibit, “Queer California: Untold Stories,” the first in California to focus on LGBTQ+ history and culture, just opened at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). The exhibition contains a variety ...

Andy Warhol— From A to B and Back Again

Nancy S. Bishop March 20, 2019 New York,

The blockbuster exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art could be called Andy Warhol—From A to Z and Back Again. Because it’s a very comprehensive view of the life and art of the man ...

Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Emily S. Mendel March 17, 2019 Berkeley,

“Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction,” the exceptional and significant new retrospective by the world-renown and influential abstract artist, Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), presents a fresh ...

Mildred Howard

“TAP: Investigation of Memory”

Emily S. Mendel March 3, 2019 Oakland,

A powerful multimedia piece entitled newly installed at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is the creation of lauded artist and long-time Berkeley resident, Mildred Howard. I spoke with Mildred Howard about the origins of her mixed media work, ...