Category Archives: REVIEWS

Guerrero Gallery wins the opening party contest. for SF Weekly.

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Larissa Archer

​I’ve talked before about how helpful it is for galleries to offer food and refreshments at openings, that a lot of art seems more beautiful, profound, socially conscious, and politically relevant to the well-fed and slightly tipsy. I lamented the … Continue reading →

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S*** got real at Cabaret Bastille

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Last night’s Litquake event, Cabaret Bastille at Cellspace, was almost a smashing good time. I admit I am disproportionately delighted by parties with costume themes, and there were some glorious vintage and vintage-inspired get-ups. Yvonne Michelle Cordoba (and friend?) performed … 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 compare First Thursday Openings at 49 Geary and the Jazz Heritage Center for SF Weekly

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Dear 49 Geary: I’m afraid you just got served. First Thursdays at the prestigious address are always intellectually, perhaps even spiritually satisfying, not only for art’s enriching effect on the mind and soul, but also because, as with any intellectual … 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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My chat with author Wendy Lesser on Shostakovich, SF Weekly

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Larissa Archer

No foreign sky protected me, No stranger’s wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, Survivor of that time, that place. — Anna Akhmatova, 1961 How does an artist work in the context of an oppressive … 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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The Cries of San Francisco in SF Weekly

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Larissa Archer

You don’t have to pick a special day on Market Street to be yelled at by strangers. And it’s not that unusual to encounter those in odd outfits trying to sell you objects and services of ostentatious uselessness. But Saturday, … Continue reading →

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My review of Doug Rickard’s "A New American Picture" in the San Francisco Examiner

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Roofs face the elements without shingles and collapsing, store fronts stand shuttered and windows boarded over, and gingerbread crumbles off formerly elegant facades. In Doug Rickard’s “A New American Picture” on view at Stephen Wirtz Gallery, the sense of desertion … Continue reading →

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