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My review of Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris at the de Young Museum for Art Practical
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
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
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
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
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
My review of Richard Learoyd’s Presences at Fraenkel Gallery in Art Practical
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
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
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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