New Style Curators Panel Discussion

An incredibly fascinating discussion is circulating around in the art world. As the presence of New Media art forms extend from the esoteric and rarely seen – in the case of Jst Chlln – into the light of the everyday, with online exhibitions presented on Youtube and the option of replacing Firefox ads with art, [...]

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Hide/Seek: A Curator’s Comment on the National Portrait Gallery’s Censorship of David Wojnarowicz

“Bottom line, if people don’t say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.” – David Wojnarowicz This quote is from the website of David Wojnarowicz; a posthumous warning that foreshadows the recent ethical plight between the National Portrait Gallery and “A [...]

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Call For Submissions: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces Public Art Opportunity

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts invites submissions from Bay Area artists for a new commission for a public art project at YBCA. One artist will be selected to create a large-scale artwork on the glass exterior walls of the forum/galleries building. This is one of two buildings that make up YBCA’s campus, the forum/galleries [...]

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Wassup Censors?

Larry Clark‘s retrospective exhibition opens today at Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.  The artist is known for his talent in depicting both fictional and true stories of disturbed youth through a raw and glaringly graphic eye.  His photo documentations  (Tulsa, Teenage Lust) and his films (Bully, Kids, Ken Park, Wassup Rockers) have [...]

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Artist Reception for Jesse Hazelip @ Temple Nightclub July 10th 2-7pm

Just announced! An artist’s reception will be held for Jesse Hazelip on Saturday July 10th from 2-7pm in the Earth Bar at the Temple Nightclub. Be sure to check out Jesse’s installation that day at the SFMOMA garage windows at 147 Minna and 150 Natoma and then come on by to celebrate with the artist. [...]

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Installation Shots: Jesse Hazelip @ SFMOMA Windows

Jesse Hazelip is currently installing the work for his next major exhibition opening this Saturday, July 10th in conjunction with the SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery. This installation will be on display through November 13th and is visible in the SFMOMA Garage’s street-level windows on both the Natoma and Minna St. alleys between New Montgomery and Third [...]

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Oakland Museum of California Re-Opens Saturday May 1st

Celebrate with OMCA! The newly transformed Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) opens Saturday, May 1, with 31 hours of continuous, FREE programs and events, including the opening exhibition of Miné Okubo: Citizen 13660. Below is the full list of scheduled events but for more info, visit OMCA’s website. Saturday, May 1: Watch the premiere of [...]

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Saltz on Skin Fruit

“Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection” is the current New Museum exhibition curated by Jeff Koons that’s causing quite a stir in the art world. The show screams of quid pro quo favors and clubby relationships, and for good reason. Not only are Koons and Joannou have a famous friendship with Joannou being [...]

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Marina Abramović : The Artist is Present

Marina Abramović has tested the limits of performance art by testing the physical and psychological limits of the human body. Acting as the primary object of her pieces, she has offered up her own body – her health, her safety, even her life – in the interest of innovative performance. Perhaps the most infamous piece [...]

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Get Eli Broad on the Phone…

By now, most of you are well aware of Jeffrey Deitch being elected as MoCA’s incumbent director. This has been cause for much written commentary, but none comes close to a call out quite like this tongue-in-cheek video where Hitler reacts to the news. via Marshall Astor:

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