Last week's Art Talk got particularly passionate responses from KCRW listeners who hear my program on the air, or those who read the text of it on the...
Talk about San Francisco's renowned Museum of Modern Art and at some point, the conversation will turn to Mondrian: the artist, the paintings and, of ...
For those who habitually spend just a few seconds with an art work in a museum or gallery, and then devote more time than that to the adjacent wall label, the Slow Art Day experience offers an opportunity to slow down and pay attention in a way that proves genuinely rewarding.
San Francisco has been licking its wounds over news that the beloved SFMOMA will be closing for nearly three years starting this summer. (Albeit for a...
They're not the sort of images that one blinks at for a while before concluding that art is incomprehensible and wandering off in a state of alienation.
On March 2, 2013 Jason Warnke had his Curatorial Debut exhibiting 140 video game artists (60 at the gallery and 80 included online) at Gauntlet Gallery in San Francisco. The following interview was held at Zero Zero Restaurant in San Francisco on March 8th, 2013.
When street photographer Garry Winogrand passed away unexpectedly at 56 years old, he left behind approximately 250,000 images he'd never even seen. B...
Working with leading talent from around the globe DK Johnston and his Arts Fund partners have been able to add water to mid-career creatives and help take their marketing, business, and financials to the next level.
San Francisco has recently hired its very own art detective and announced a moratorium on public art donations to the city, all in response to claims ...
Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama is exploring the relationship between nature and humanity in a retrospective entitled "Natural Stories." The ex...
The opening party for the riveting Cindy Sherman retrospective at SFMOMA played out like a bit of Where's Waldo for the contemporary cadre. Amidst the elegant installation of photographs featuring Sherman, where was... Sherman?
Dallas Art Fair founders Chris Byrne and John Sughrue are heading further West. In January, they'll be opening the inaugural FOG, a new San Francisco ...
For SFMOMA's latest exhibition, the institution is going down south, centering on Mexico's captivating essence in the realm of photography. The vast s...
Last week, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) acquired Edward Hopper's "Intermission," one of Hopper's final works, painted only four yea...
To look at Rineke Dijkstra's images of a teen-aged girl on a beach or a Portuguese bullfighter who has just emerged from the ring is to see the subject. The person in front of the camera is all that matters, not the person who released the shutter.
While the SFMOMA has been giddily releasing plans about the $500 million expansion project, a potentially party-ruining battle has been brewing with a...
On Thursday, the San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved the environmental impact report on the planned expansion at the San Francisco ...
Art museums are so often understood as sanctuaries in which to preserve the past, so it's rare to experience a museum show instead devoted to understa...
Los Angeles offers a wealth of easily accessible travel destinations for weekend escapes. From Palm Springs with its stark desert landscape and breath...