The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an ambitious 25-year survey of the video art of Bill Viola. The retrospective exhibit includes fifteen of Viola’s creations, providing a powerful experience that will be completely new to most ...
Graffiti Art, Abstract Expressionism, poetry. One searches for words to describe the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat which is currently on view at the Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, the first solo exhibition of his work in San Francisco. Basquiat's style is ...
Bronze human head with gold mask Shang dynasty Figure of a kneeling archer Qin Dynasty Two golden tree appliques Tang dynasty Organized by the National Gallery of Art ...
In her 1925 self portrait, photographer Germaine Krull (1897-1985) keeps her face mostly hidden and in soft focus, while her camera dominates the foreground and a cigarette, held between her fingers, provides remarkable balance. It's a complex image in ...
Other suggested reading: Black Sun-The Eyes of Four: Roots and Innovation in Japanese Photography (1986), Eikoh Hosoe, Daido Muriyama, et. al. Photography and Beyond in Japan: Space, Time and Memory (1995), Robert Stearns, et. al. ...
Picasso was surely the greatest artist of the 20th century and, arguably, Guernica, his 1937 mural-sized painting, is the single greatest war painting of all time. Alas, Guernica, after years of giving us pleasure at New York's Museum of ...
The National Gallery of Ireland was founded in 1854, neither particularly early nor late in the history of museums - the Louvre dates to 1793, the Prado to 1819, London's National Gallery to 1824, the Metropolitan - a latecomer ...
When this Walker Evans retrospective was at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the organizing institution for the exhibition), attendance records were broken. That's a testament both to the greatness of this photographer's work and to its accessibility. In ...
Andrea Mantegna, The Virgin with the Sleeping Child, 1465/70. Oil on canvas. The exhibition with the unwieldy titleThe State Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon, currently at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, is ...
