Category Archives: damn good

My review of Scott Yeskel’s “Mapping California” in the San Francisco Examiner

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Painter Scott Yeskel’s exhibit at Jack Fischer Gallery is titled “Mapping California,” but it could as aptly be named “Leaving California” or “EscapingCalifornia.” It is not a pervasive view of California he depicts. He ignores the wealthy enclaves of Hollywood … Continue reading →

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My Review of the Irving Penn exhibit at Fraenkel Gallery in the San Francisco Examiner

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Larissa Archer

If today’s fashion world pushes a narrow concept of beauty — tall, thin, young, more thin — 70 years ago that concept was even narrower, as the tall, thin young girls in the magazines also had to be white. For … Continue reading →

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I wrote about Purple Rain at the Castro for SF Weekly

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Purple Rain and the Castro Theatre are a film/venue combination of a perfection that might be matched only by screening Milk at the Castro, or The Hippie Temptation at the Red Vic, or Das Boot at Opera Plaza. Naturally, Friday … Continue reading →

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My review of Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris at the de Young Museum for Art Practical

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Larissa Archer

I paint the way some people write their autobiography…. I have less and less time and yet I have more and more to say, and what I have to say is, increasingly, something about the movement of my thought. —Pablo … Continue reading →

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Write-up of the opening night party for "The Steins Collect" at SFMOMA in ArtSLant

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Any San Francisco gathering too big to fit inside a bathtub inevitably becomes a fancy dress ball. We love Events and we love to think of ourselves more as participants than as spectators. This held true for the opening night … Continue reading →

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My review of Richard Learoyd’s Presences at Fraenkel Gallery in Art Practical

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Larissa Archer

It’s hard not to feel like an overzealous dermatologist examining the subjects of Richard Learoyd’s exhibition at Fraenkel Gallery. His large-scale direct-positive images reveal a degree of epidermal detail one usually only gets to see while making out under an … Continue reading →

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Eonnagata, Théatre des Champs-Elysées

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Another piece I was lucky enough to see in Paris was Eonnagata, a collaborative dance/dramatic work by Robert Lepage, Sylvie Guillem, and Russell Maliphant, at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées. Now, I say lucky because I will happily see anything with … Continue reading →

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Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Larissa Archer

I managed to get a ticket to the New Year’s Eve performance at Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier of a modern triple-bill, the piece of most interest to me being Le Sacre du Printemps. Over the phone (at 35 centimes a … Continue reading →

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R.I.P. Scottie Agar Jaickes

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Larissa Archer

A friend of mine died a few nights ago. We worked together at my old theater company in San Francisco. I met him the summer I spent reading Steinbeck and so I’ve always associated the two of them–perhaps because Scottie … Continue reading →

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R.I.P. Anne Berven

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Larissa Archer

I sang in Anne’s chamber choir all four years of college. I think it might have been the most enriching artistic experience of my life, and my college years certainly would not have been the same without it. I have … Continue reading →

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