Oakland A Tender Portrait of California Indigenous Life Duncan Agulair’s photographs of Native California life stand as a direct challenge to the pervasive narrative that Indigenous communities are relics of the past. On view at OMCA now. Vita Hewitt 16 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
Tulsa Tour de Quartz Is A Tour de Force A taste of what the future holds for artmaking in Oklahoma and beyond. Meredith Boe 10 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland A Powerful Exploration of Movement and Change EBPCO’s “Momentum” blows down the walls: 20 photographers share their mightiest moments in movement with the Town. Vita Hewitt 10 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Style Shines Bright on Oakland Rooftop The High 5ive Rooftop Bar at the Kissel Uptown Oakland boasts a stunning view of Oakland; currently in more ways than one. 100 Faces of Oakland, an ambitious project sponsored by Visit Oakland and created by photographers Anthony Weaver and Patanisha Williams, is on display through October 31st. Vita Hewitt 20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Idora Idora: Echoes from the Past Fred's review in comics of Idora Idora. Saturdays, October 12 through November 9, 2024 Fred Noland 20 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Vintage Photo Detective Is On The Case By day, Erik S. Hinckley is an unassuming assistant town planner for the town of Newington. By night, he’s a detective, working to solve mysteries over a century in the making. Jamil Ragland 8 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland A Sophisticated Forest I certainly didn’t expect Ross-esque paintings, and the works on exhibit are definitely not “happy little trees.”…This is a decidedly more sophisticated forest than those broadcast on PBS years ago. Agustín Maes 27 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Still Lifes Of A Wounded City “Revisiting Oakland: A Post-Pandemic Photographic Survey of Urban Landscapes“ Works by Gina Gaiser Manna Gallery 473 25th Street, Oakland Through June 1 Only four years ago we were washing our Agustín Maes 6 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland A (Gertrude) Steinful of Oakland Gertrude Stein’s Oakland Oakland Public Library, Main Branch Through April 30, 2024 “When there was there and when it wasn’t or was it.” As one of Oakland’s Sarah Bass 27 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Finding My Story On Gallery Walls First Sundays Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St. Oakland The Oakland Museum of California is not that crowded around noon on this Sunday. But there are a lot of Robin Lapid 11 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford You Made Me Look. My Bad Matrix 193 Work by Talia Chetrit Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Through Jan. 7, 2024 When I entered the gallery to view Talia Chetrit’s first museum exhibit in the United States, Jamil Ragland 18 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland The Gun (Owners) Next Door: Look. Don’t Shoot The Gun Next Door Photographs By Judy Dater East Bay Photo Workshop 312 8th St., Oakland Sept. 15 – Nov. 19, 2023 A small room with low ceilings and white walls, Sarah Bass 8 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland A Hip-Hop Photographer’s Oakland ’90s, Re-Revealed Oakland Photo Lady: Tales of a 90s Girl B‑Love’s Guest House 1131 Center St., West Oakland Saturdays through September Missy Elliott, younger than you’ve ever seen, hair Sarah Bass 15 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
LA ’70s-’80s Photos Recall When LA Knew How To Play MAPPING AN ART WORLD: LOS ANGELES IN THE 1970S-80S Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown Los Angeles June 18, 2023 – March 10, 2024. The work included in this exhibit (why must Annie Buckley 15 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
NYC Flower Fairies In 1st solo U.S. show, a photographer’s tech tricks challenge how we view beauty KATHRIN LINKERSDORFF: FAIRIES Yossi Milo Gallery 245 10th Avenue, New York, NY Through Oct. Betsy Kim 11 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford The Person In The Portrait: Seeing Through Frederick Douglass’ Eyes Frederick Douglass stands next to Harriet Tubman as the only people I describe as heroes. They demonstrated enormous courage even when they didn’t have to. Both had escaped slavery, Jamil Ragland 4 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland The Durability Of Dorothea Lange: Photography As Activism, And Conscience What first draws the eye, even from across the room, is a close-up: the dark hood, the sinewy face, the upward gaze of worry or hope. She is equally plausible Jonathan Kiefer 24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Fest Photos Blend With Nature, As Finding The Right Path Proves Tricky The last thing I want to do on a summer Friday afternoon in Boston is stay inside, which is how I ended up battling through city traffic in a car Sasha Patkin 19 Jul 2023 · 4 min read