Category Archives: San Francisco

My Preview of Litquake’s Cabaret Bastille for SF Weekly

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Historic queer icon, art world catalyst, and Bay Area native Gertrude Stein is enjoying posthumous adulation for her role in modern art history. SFMOMA’s current exhibit showcases her (and her family’s) game-changing art collection in “The Steins Collect,” and the … Continue reading →

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I wrote a Preview for the Irving Penn exhibit at Fraenkel Gallery

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Larissa Archer

When we think of classic glamour — pencil skirt, gloves, and arched-eyebrow glamor, the kind that would have looked askance through perfectly lined eyes and French milliner’s netting at you and your holey shoes and yoga pants — the image … 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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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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My write-up of "First Thursday" openings at 49 Geary in SF Weekly

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Larissa Archer

​Clusters of young Americans propped themselves up on Golgothan stilettos, clutching their plastic cups of white wine with one hand and texting virtuosically with the other. Some hood-ish-looking young men in ‘do-rags dragged their pants behind them from gallery to … 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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