Alex Bigman
Allen Ginsberg's Photographs On View at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
For all its contributions to literature, the Beat generation of artists is above all known for its lifestyle–the addled, erotic, for-the-moment mania that blasted the foundations of conservative 1950s America and paved the way for full-fledged counterculture movements in cities like San Francisco and New York.
artMRKT and ArtPadSF: The Must-See Booths
Attempt to hit all seventy booths at this year's artMRKT (May 16 - 19) in Fort Mason Center, and you're going to stagger out bleary eyed and capable of remembering maybe the first three things you saw.
Four New Art Shows Explore Civilization and Decay
Four stellar art shows this week showcase two distinctive sensibilities: A meditation on decay, and an affirmation of civilization.
Eight Gallery Shows to Catch Before the Art Fairs Hit
Four Galleries to Visit This Week
Brooklyn duo Skewville bring their "urban playground" aesthetic to White Walls, Corden Potts shows Michael Crouser's famed bullfighting series, and two other galleries reach milestones worth celebrating. Stop in.
Watching Christian Marclay's 'The Clock' at SFMOMA
There are 1,440 minutes in a day, and several times that many clips in The Clock, Christian Marclay's epic, 24-hour-long video collage of film segments that each in some way reference an exact time of day, drawn out to align with real time.
Springtime for Art: Four Gallery Shows to See
It certainly feels like spring in the SF art world this week, with internationally renowned color fiend Markus Linnenbrink showing a brilliant batch of new work at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, and big-league art dealer George Krevsky hosting his annual tribute to the start of baseball season.
The Bay Lights Creators Share the Story Behind Their Monumental Art Project
Now that we've all basked in its glory, it's time to learn how the magic of The Bay Lights came to be.
Four New Art Exhibitions for the Curious Viewer
Christian Marclay's lesser known photography bent, a full-scale house of cardboard, unpredictable robotic sculptures and a sustained look at The Gathering of the Juggalos are all on the art agenda for this week. Curiosity? It's most certainly piqued.
America, Observed: Garry Winogrand's Show Opens at SFMOMA
“I feel like the world is a place I bought a ticket to,” the photographer Garry Winogrand is quoted saying in Garry Winogrand, now at SFMOMA. This unprecedentedly comprehensive exhibition, consisting of hundreds of snapshot photographs taken between the early 1950s and the time of the prolific artist’s early death in 1984, offers viewers a ringside seat to the unique spectacle of American society as it mutated over the course of those incredible decades–an opportunity not to be passed up.
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