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Critical observations on the cultural landscape; musings in and on the field; explorations on the road.
What is a River? Three Visions of the Rio Grande
The Poetry Brothel Problem
Art in the Time of Art-Washing
There are no ideas in poetry (…)
Undesigning Disability
The Absolute Denial of 💩
Queer Heterarchies of Flowers
The Light Fantastic: Nathaniel Dorsky’s Arboretum Cycle
Plenty of Skin
Timidity Troubles the Witch Hunt
The Art of Losing
Berkeley Blooms
Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell
Who is Welcome in Wakanda? On Black Panther & Contradictory Afrofuturisms
Walking in Los Angeles
Moving the Wreckage
Trauma is a Memory Palace with the Roof Blown Off
Does It Absolutely Have to Be in Paris?
Hold Everything Black
To Live and Fade in LA
California Affinities
Staying Alive
The David Ireland House
Pretty Good Private Letters
Suppressed Images and Radical Love
When Spiritual Meets Digital
Handiwork
Down the Rabbit Hole: On Psychedelic Sex from Buzz Bense’s Gay Stash
Arts Advocacy After Ghost Ship: Mutual Aid and Brazen Ignorance
Word Painting
Past Becomes Present
Day With(out) Art 2016: COMPULSIVE PRACTICE
“I’m Only Now”: The Institute for New Feeling and the Politics of Presence
Drawing the Curtain: New and old violence in three acts
Space Odyssey
SF Mixtape
Notebooks on Notebooks
“They’re Here!” San Francisco’s INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)
Our home is the Internet.
Notes from Simone Forti and Steve Paxton in Conversation
Being Good Now
Crying on Camera: “fourth-wave feminism” and the threat of commodification
Sugared Mirrors, Shining Windows
Content Kings: A South by Southwest Sojourn
Incoming
Masking Against the Neoliberal Gaze
Our Studio Visit with Hilla Becher
VERTIGO Obsession Pt. 2: The Judy Room
Other Half Orbit
The Rumpus Pops Up in New York
What’s up with stARTup?
Conflict Kitchen: An interview with Jon Rubin
The Sketch Artist: Paul Clipson’s REEL
1986
A1 Travel Grantees
The Mission School Brings Magic Energy to NYC
1985
1983
2014 Is YOUR Year of Getting Things Done
1982
Frank Smigiel: A Producer’s Journal, or Judgment A Go-Go
Inside Project Los Altos: Christian Jankowski
FIELD WORK: Juliana Spahr
FIELD WORK: Frances Richard
What’s At Play in the League of F.A.M.E.?
1981
Flo Oy Wong at the Luggage Store
1980
FIELD WORK: Joanne Kyger
1979
FIELD WORK: C.D. Wright
SECA 2012: Jonn Herschend on Stories from the Evacuation
Inside Project Los Altos: Charles Garoian
FIELD WORK: C. S. Giscombe
FIELD WORK: Paul Ebenkamp
Josh Faught at the Neptune Columbarium
SECA 2012: Zarouhie Abdalian on Occasional Music
ThEN is Now: Joyce Gordon Gallery’s Ten-Year Anniversary Exhibit
FIELD WORK: Bill Berkson
Can Artists Afford to Live in San Francisco Any More?
FIELD WORK: Dodie Bellamy
SECA 2012: David Wilson on Arrivals
FIELD WORK: Hugo García Manríquez
SECA 2012: Robert Glück on the Neptune Society Columbarium
FIELD WORK: Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field — Poets Respond
New York Art Book Fair
SECA 2012: Josh Faught on BE BOLD For What You Stand For, BE CAREFUL For What You Fall For
New York Just Elected a Museum Director to the City Council
Welcome! Fabulous fall season in store
Crissy Field Notes: Dogs on di Suvero
Should SFMOMA Sell Off Its Art Like Detroit?
Developers Destroy 5,000-Year-Old Pyramid in Peru
1978
Mark di Suvero’s Friendly Giants
Snapshot Poetics
1977
1976
Amanda N. Simons on Marriage (In)Equality and the Media
1975
What We Do Is Secret: Sydney Cohen
San Francisco Art Invades New York
Notes on The Clock
Did Occupy Really Change Contemporary Art?
1974
Calder Yates Reviews Stairwells’s Field Trip #3
1973
An Artwork Made in Cambridge, MA, at the Public Library
1972
New NEWS for Open Space
A slinky, waterworks, and some wires
Leora Lutz Reviews OPENING, Curated by Taj Robinson and Nikki Mirsaeid
A1 Travel Grants
Judy Must Live! Notes Before and After Seeing VERTIGO in IB Technicolor
Save Adobe Books
Maureen Burdock Reviews CJM Exhibition “Kehinde Wiley, The World Stage: Israel”
Watch LIVE: Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed at Harlem Arts Salon on Sunday, Feb. 24, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Little Joe, Lena Dunham, and a Lapdog: A Visit to the LA Art Book Fair
Pandemonium of gallery openings
My Gross New Year in Paris
We Have All the Ingredients – Carolina Caycedo’s Cleansing Tea (Pre-Holiday Prep?)
An Idea Cannot Be Destroyed (But It Can Be Revolutionized)
Six Lines of Flight International Playlist – Thanks, Chris Dixon
Here, There, Elsewhere: Assembling Communities begins today with Helena Producciones, at Kadist Art Foundation
A Faraway Place
Erica Gangsei on Story Board
Gestures of Love, or L’insurrection qui vient?
Art MicroHubs: The GLBT History Museum (SF, CA); Right Window (SF, CA); Norte Maar (BRKLYN, NY)
Part 3 – Poetic Politic: An Agitated Butterfly Searches the Internet
FIELD CONDITIONS
Beyond the Valley of Gallery Girls
Me Voy Pa’ Cali: Reclaiming a Regional Identity and Practice
Part 2 – Poetic Politic: Reflections in the Sky
Bay Area Art and the (Counter) Culture of Silicon Valley
Art MicroHubs : Publication Studio (Portland, OR) and The Carrack (Durham, NC)
Art MicroHubs: NLS (Jamaica) | Gillmore Gallery (Peacham, VT) | Rock Bar (SF)
Poetic Politic: Reflections in Berlin
Culture ’45 and the Rise of Beirut’s Contemporary Art Scene
Use SFMOMA to let everyone know you’re out there
Xe Ôm Drivers Of The Mind: The Journey Of Sàn Art
The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Robert Adams
Passing on (by Ben Kinmont)
Marina, Full of Grace
News: Cindy Sherman Wears Metallic Blue Sandals
A Meditation on Space (in Four Parts)
Home movies are important
Keyword: Hound
secret lives.
“Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn” at the Luggage Store
On Sculpture That Embodies: Phyllida Barlow at the New Museum
Zina Al-Shukri: A Portrait
Anthony Discenza’s Controlled Release
In Protest at Berkeley Art Museum
Off Label at SF International Film Festival
EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR(s)
Wayne Koestenbaum at SFAI
Easter Parade
Two Serious Ladies
The Definitive, Final, Never-to-Be-Revised History of Planking
There Is a There There
A Declaration; or the future of art lies in that which is not art (by Ben Kinmont)
From Black Paintings to Social Practice
A Toilet Show
“How Ya Like Me Now?”
Gerald Gooch, Richard Lowenberg, and Robert Moon on Baja (1974)
Mission Accomplished
Michael Horse and the Revival of Ledger Art
Illegitimate Business
Paper Trail: Following Julia Goodman
Chicano Remix
Why Is Occupy Oakland So Crazy?
The Steven Wolf Endorsement for President
Life in the Archives
Congratulations, Alla Efimova!
Le sacre du printemps (reconstructed)
Inventive Re-Use
Looking at People Looking at Rothko
OccuProp
Artist Bloc No. 1, Is Art Labor?
Occupy Wall Street: It Ain’t Over Yet
Letter from Yvonne Rainer to Jeffrey Deitch
Artist Bloc Day of Politics, Action, and Art
Manitoba Museum of Finds Art: Interview with Alberta Mayo
Out of the Studios, Into the Streets: Artists Represent at General Strike
The economic position of artists should be improved in the following ways…
Art is for everyone! The people are at your door!
Clouds of Tear Gas in Oakland
Slavoj Žižek on Broadway after Speaking at Occupy Wall Street
Brain Drain
Six Lines of Flight: Tangier, Beirut, Cali, Ho Chi Minh City, Cluj, San Francisco
Anonymous Comic Book Antiheroes Protest BART Rider Slaying
Nocturne
Summer Series: Pop-Up Poets
Golden Brown
Historic Marriage Equality Law Passes in New York – Everyone Turns Gay and the World Ends!
Ai Weiwei Released on Bail after “Confessing to his Tax Crimes” with No Mention of Why the Government Demolished His Shanghai Studio with Bulldozers a Few Months Before He Was Arrested
abundance thinking
A Very Long Post About the Extraordinary Artist and Poet and Storyteller and Singer and Philosopher and Influential Activist and Fighter of Inner Demons Gilbert Scott-Heron
Fair Trade
Good-bye
The Forgiven
Are San Francisco Artists Still Just a Bunch of Liberal Hippie, Left-Wing Drug Addicts and Alcoholics that Hate America?
This Is Not a Film
Art School Confidential 2: The MFA Show
Talking Restraint
Their Dreams
A Tribute
The Conspirator
Art School Confidential
Release Ai Weiwei—An Overseas Chinese Perspective
Tracing the Plot
Empty Chairs
SFMOMA joins museums around the world to support the release of artist Ai Weiwei
Who Is Ai Weiwei and Why Is He in Jail?
From UAE to USA
Ai Wei Wei
NKOTB
UK Budget Cuts will have San Francisco impacts
T2
Your Student Loans Are Totally Killing You, Dude
Elizabeth Taylor, Iconic Actress Passes 1932-2011
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet! More Expensive than a Diamond-Encrusted Skull!
Palimpsest 2
Red Eye
Agoraphobia
The Present Prize (Travel Grant)
One More Tweet Before I Die
Losing Our Voice
FYI: The Revolution Has Just Been Tweeted
Sun and Shadow: The Life and Death of Kodachrome K-14
Robbing Your Mamma To Pay Your Poppa
Where Art Is a Matter of Life and Death
Celebrating The Uncelebrated
Trish Keenan – An Appreciation
The Way the Wild, Wild Art World Works
ParaSites: SC13
The End of the Internet
Kenny Dorham’s Cousin Is an Artist
After “Riot Show”
Happenstand Stats: Days of the Week (or Scheduling Your Next Event)
“You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave” – Hotel California
Irruptions of the Marvelous
The Marriage of Figaro: With Anne Colvin (Part 1)
Introducing Fillip
Creativity Exploring the Museum
Spectacular at Sports
Observation on observation
Event Report: OS Thursday 9.23
Caste and Outcast
The Grass is ALWAYS Greener
On Artist’s Artists
A Less Shadowed Place
“What isn’t a remix now?”
RE:Response (PARTone)
Shame on pride, or “Reverse the Polarity of this Non-Profit Vortex”
Pride honors that can’t be accepted
El derrocamiento de la sintaxis
Overthrowing syntax:making an arguement for being misunderstood
UnSEEing the Museum
The aesthetics of ecological (dys)function
Touchdown Jesus Butter Figurine
Martyr figurines >> Colonialist ephemera
Resurfacing the city
Social Sculpture, Limited Edition
One Final Long Tracking Shot
Presidio: A Place for Art
Moholy-Nagy (Part 2): Form Follows Emotion
Remembering Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010
Moholy-Nagy (Part 1): In Memory of Beulah Seckinger
Today! Allison Smith Arts & Skills Service, @ the War Memorial Veterans Building
Three Heads, Six Arms
Deborah Remington R.I.P.
Final thoughts on the invisible
For the Next Two Weeks @The Roxie: Elliot Lavine’s Box of Cracker Jack Noir Oddities
Science Fiction and Art
Tuymans, etc.
Shadows and the city
Got (sm)Arts & Skills?
Curatorial Romance
People Watching
If I still have your attention… Save Plus-X!
MFA Exhibition Season
Celluloid Lovers Alert — Save Plus-X!
Harvard Bestows Hardware on Lord
Struck Dumb by BRUCE CONNER: A Reminiscence
Stepping on Brecht’s toes…
The Moment Before Photography Is Over
American Cinema
More on researching the invisible
The Clouds and the Trees pt. 1
The Clouds and the Trees, pt. 2
Blood and tongues of fire: volcanos and the psychology in the sky
A curator’s day: part two
$1000 Travel Grant For A Bay Area Artist
Celebrate Anne Wagner celebrating Anne Truitt and Agnes Martin
Art Conditions
A curator’s day
Veronica p.s.
The Good, the Bad, and the Pretty
This Month: CINEMA SHOWDOWN! Chris Marker vs. Duras, Modesty Blaise stands up David Holzman for a Blind Date + The Joys of Filmmaking
Notes toward a Lecture on the Invisible and Art
LOBBIES, and their varieties
Power and Patronage
Particles Matter
Venus in and out of Furs: Joseph Losey’s “Eve” & “Accident”
Re: Mission Dialogue Continues
Facts, for a change
A Curious Summer at the Studio for Urban Projects
Who are we?
T.W. Five, “On Time,” at the Soap Gallery
The art of the infographic
More Musings on Museum Building Booms
Congratulations, 16mm!
Permanent collection, LOL
On Invisibility
What’s happening in Ethiopia?
On the Reinvented Oakland Museum
None of the Above
Thinking about Luc Tuymans’ Congo Imagery
Eesuu Orundide’s Exhibit “Sugar”
THIS WEEKEND! Bay Area Invaded by Ross Lipman’s Multiple Personas
A ripple in the fabric of the code
Unknown/Untitled
“A Few of My Favorite Things,” with apologies to Julie Andrews
Lessons of Darkness: Jacques Tourneur’s The Leopard Man
The Fragmented City
THIS WEEK! Scott MacDonald program 2, Ozu + Judith Rosenberg & S.F. Cinematheque’s Weekend of Live Cinema
Art Work (Part 2)
Mapping the city by falling down
TONIGHT! Jacques Tati’s Playtime & Scott MacDonald program 1
The Pickpocket Almanack: Season Two
Artists Who’ve Left Town
1001 Words: 02.07.10
Remembering ArtWeek
Top 10 so far, 2010
Out-takes and Shout-outs…
Art Work
book report.
there is no sea but the sea
20 Bay Area Artists & Videos
Simulacrum Blackness: Images of Artificial Hair Vendors in Oakland
Larry Sultan, 1946 – 2009
Blood Brought to Ghosts: Notes on Kenneth Anger
Now Is The Only Time We Will All Be Together In This Same Place.
Kenneth Anger & Me
Trip Without A Ticket: Free Store Variations
Paul Madonna, fancy clocks + the Chelsea Hotel
Default Men and 3-D Diversity: Bryce vs. Sang
Notes From The Chemical Outpost Vol. 2
The Billboard for the Film Invictus
Actor, Painter, Satire
Githinji Wambire’s West Oakland Studio Part 2
READ HERE NOW
1001 Words: 12.01.09
871 Underground
SISTER-hood is powerful.
Tomo Yasuda
Tim Miller and (My) Friends
1001 Words: 11.19.09
Pieces From Living Rooms
Destiny’s Sacred Jazz Celebration
Githinji Wambire’s West Oakland Studio Part 1
The Importance of Being Eileen
(Almost) Free Video: Art21 and Remix Manifesto
The Anecdote Archive
BAITLINE!!!
Frieze-ing in London (pt 2): postface
Floating School – Paul Kagawa, 1976
1001 Words: 11.04.09
Desert Obsessions: Apsara DiQuinzio on Utah earthworks
The Lanterns Along the Wall
Oh, Canada!
1001 Words: 10.28.09
Woody Allen’s Interiors
At Home with Cristy Road
Masterpieces at Alemany Flea Market
Seeing with the Blackeyed Pea: The Art of Letitia Ntofon
VVORK
“To be always beginning”
Friezing in London (pt 1)
Ali Liebegott’s Ducks Are In A Row.
Jim Pomeroy – Viewing the Museum: The Tale Wagging the Dog
Vaginal Tumor, Alien Snot
1001 Words: 10.02.09
California Lacuna: Robert Kinmont
Everything’s Invisible
A Lens on the World
Introducing “Who This?”: an art ID experiment
1001 words: 09.27.09
1001 words: 09.25.09
Two Letters (with Gifts) from David Enos
On the road with ORIGINAL PLUMBING
Drawing Down Spirits: Sacred Ground Markings of Vodou in San Francisco
Object Economies: Beyond a Great Depression
Wonderland, A Follow-Up
Van Gogh’s Blues People
A Visit With John Altoon
I Love Yoko Ono
Wonderland: A world turned upside down
Any Thoughts?
Dispatch from Ars Electronica
The State That I Am In
Hidden Treasures of the Ballpark
Humanizing Green Architecture
A Sustained Presence: The photography of Lewis Watts on the 4th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Scissors, Glue, and Photocopies: DIY San Francisco
A Muted Trumpeter Swan
“Without the public these works are nothing,” participating with Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Empire of Signs
Home is a four letter word.
Reconciling the Local/National/International, Part II
A Requiem, A Dream (Part One)
Why I won’t celebrate Futurism’s anniversary
Safe Word
Whose Car Is This?
Green Architecture: Building for the People?
Reconciling the Local/National/International, part 1
This land wasn’t made for you and me
Vincent Fecteau in Artforum
New Langton in Crisis – A Response from the Board
Art is a Gamble
New Langton Arts In Crisis
No More Posters! Let’s See Action!
The Day Michael Died
Public Art and Improvement, Part 2
Blonde on a Bum Trip
Art History as Added Value
Is Poetry Fifty Years Behind Poetry? Is Art Fifty Years Ahead of Art?: The Shocking and Unexpurgated Truth … Told Here for the First Time
Seize the (Chicago) Day (with apologies to Saul Bellow)
Money…it’s a drag.
Mario Garcia Torres
On Bernstein and Art Criticism
What We Leave Behind: New narratives in a queer archive
Film as a Battleground: Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason
Charles Bernstein Visit
Ch-ch-changes in the East Bay
Behind the Curtain
RIP King of Pop
Dispatch from Alabama #2: Build It and (Maybe) They Will Come
A Queer Time and Place
Designing for Ability at NIAD
Sherrie Levine, In and Against Collage
No Place Like Home: Design and Architecture in post-Katrina New Orleans
“Andmoreagain”
Dispatch from Alabama #1: Cynics Need Not Apply
Before I leave town…
Sleek, Shiny and New
‘Police, police, thank you’
Odessa Steps
The Gay Bar versus the Academy
“Call for Art Historical Knowledge”
Neo Benshi
Chilling in San Jose
The Garden as Protest
Spelling Bee
Johansson Projects: Val Britton, Michael Meyers, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
“The Lost Kinetic World”
On ‘Picasso and Truth’
Harry Jacobus
On Graduate Exhibitions
Remembering Helen Levitt
Action, Ritual, and Ephemerality: Julia Goodman and the (de)Appropriation Wall
Opening and Closing
‘A day is as long as a year.’
SFIFF52: No Aesthetic Necessary?
Doll Parts
Desiree Holman’s Alien Resurrection
The Brief Wondrous Film Treatise of Gus Van Sant
Orange Skies
SFIFF52: Stay Until the End, Please
The Context of No Context: Design in a Museum
Public Art and Redevelopment
Generations
Rethinking cinema with Ramin Bahrani
The Institution
THE GIFT, Installed, Part 2
Jochen Gerz, THE GIFT, installed
Pasión por Frida @ Saturday’s MAPP
Feature: Andrew McKinley
Bruce Conner: 1933 – 2008
This is not another mountain-climbing metaphor
envelope and listen – SFMOMA staff mail closet
two things
News: SECA / Bay Area Now 5
2008 SECA Art Award: Winners & Finalists
2008 SECA Art Award
Call for SF-Region Animal Stories: Fritz Haeg’s Animal Estate Regional Model Homes 5.0: San Francisco
More on RR
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925 – 2008
68 at 40
