San Francisco Museum of Modern Art March 2 – May 26 After the dismal years and mostly pastiche products of…
Art & Architecture
If abstraction is at the heart of modernism, then Dadaism and Surrealism are central to its intellect. Dada was a…
Peter Hujar (1934-1987) paid his dues in commercial photography–magazines, fashion, advertising–on his way to developing his own voice, his own…
There is nothing unexpected in Fraenkel Gallery’s exhibit of recent works by photographer Nan Goldin. The "Goldin look" dominates–artificially lit…
The UC Berkeley Art Museum has mounted the first solo museum exhibition of work by Thomas Scheibitz, a young (33)…
Before Elmer Bischoff’s career and development as a painter had gotten into gear, abstract expressionism–the New York School–had already taken…
While the Meiji period is dated from the ascendance to the Japanese throne of Emperor Meiji in 1868, the broader…
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1520?-1569), the great Flemish painter, was enormously popular during his lifetime due not so much to…
Ladder for Booker T. Washington (detail) 1996, ash Martin Puryear is a sculptor who brings to his art extraordinary skills…
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art August 18 – December 31 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto January 31 to April…
If there is one photographer known widely to the general public it is Ansel Adams (1902-1984), whose photographs of the…
There’s a special exhilaration to attending exhibits at Fort Mason’s Herbst Pavillion, a large pier from which troops embarked on…
It is Ruth Bernhard’s year. San Francisco’s Ansel Adams Center mounted an exhibition of her work in April, J.J. Brookings…
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 6 – October 2, 2001 Stranger Passing is a collection of some 65…