Zarouhie Abdalian, recipient of the 2012 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award from SF MOMA, has her first solo exhibition with the Berkeley Art Museum’s MATRIX Program, presenting three pieces that show the subtle and dynamic relationship between sight and sound and interior and exterior spaces. Her SECA Read More…
“You could say that I’m a student of photography, and I am,” said renowned photographer Garry Winogrand just before his death when asked by fellow photographer Leo Rubinfien about his lifetime of work, “but really I’m a student of America.” This is an apt description of Winogrand — one that Read More…
“Paul Klee’s Circus” at SFMOMA A selection of prints and drawings by Expressionist artist Paul Klee will spend its last two days at SFMOMA this weekend. If you’re into abstract sketches of clowns and acrobats (or if you don’t know it yet), bid adieu to the series of circus-inspired drawings Read More…
Jasper Johns is an American iconoclast. Deftly maneuvering between different styles, but never committing to just one, it is obvious from the SFMOMA’s current exhibition of his works that Johns was inspired by all facets of life. The exhibit, “Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye,” is a retrospective of Read More…
Abroad: Hendrik Beikirch’s Mural in Busan, South Korea This monochromatic portrait of a Korean fisherman in his 60s climbs 230 feet up the Haeundae l’Park building, a residential tower in the city of Busan, South Korea. German artist Hendrik Beikirch created the image at the end of August. Beikirch conveys Read More…
The best way to enter the exhibit “Six Lines of Flight” is to walk up the SFMOMA’s four flights of stairs, through an arch and onto an indoor bridge where the walls are bathed with light and you are in a sort of whitewashed paradise. Before you is a giant Read More…
The modern environment is akin to chaos. Cities are now nearly defined by the massive billboards and glaring lights that distort their buildings. According to architect Stan Allen’s essay “Field Conditions,” places that were once familiar, organized and definite no longer exist. Amid modernization and globalization, our established culture and Read More…
A man stands at a crossroads. Hunched over, at the point of intersection between two large steel bars, he is perched on Toreo Stadium, about to commit suicide. Slowly, two men inch toward him hoping to stop him. But he puts his arm out, telling them to stop where they are. Read More…
Even as digital technology revamps most cultural experiences, museum-going has remained relatively static. There is something sacred about making that trek to a gallery to stand with an art piece. But there’s also a clumsiness involved in navigating the crowds, children, security guards in the museum obstacle courses. Frustrations like Read More…
The final show that I want to draw attention to is a Cindy Sherman retrospective that opens at the SFMOMA on July 14. Simply called “Cindy Sherman” (I suppose because Sherman requires only the briefest of introductions), it will open at the SFMOMA in the summer after having spent the Read More…