Visual Art

RNC Diary Day 3: The Barroom Watch Party

Previous entries: • RNC Diary, Day 1: The Trip • RNC Diary, Day 2: The States Strut Their Stuff

Theory Becomes Practice Becomes Abstract Art

When you enter City Gallery, located at 994 State St., the first thing you notice is the vibrant painting in the window. Joyce Greenfield’s Boeing resembles an abstract plane,

RNC Diary, Day 2: The States Strut Their Stuff

Previous entry: • RNC Diary, Day 1: The Trip

At Gallery’s Estate Book Sale, Patrons Refuse To Pay For Their Own Art (Why Should They?)

ALLAN SEKULA/SALLY STEIN GARAGE SALE The Brick Los Angeles June 23 – 29, 2024 Pedants will tell you that there really is a Melrose Hill somewhere, with an actual hill.

Photographer Sees America, Unfiltered

It’s a road in the Southwest, and the photograph’s exposure emphasizes the blasting sun and shadows it makes. The weathered face of the subject, the cast of his

RNC Diary, Day 1: The Trip

All Eyes On The Wall

Narrative 580 2nd St Oakland Many eyes twinkled at me, refracting their rich gemmed hues onto the wall beneath. They looked heavy together, but light individually, their frames a lustrous

Youth Artists Make The Case For Peace

In international traveling exhibit.

Rockin’ Chairs Steal The Show

Take A Seat: Understanding The Modern Chair Philadelphia Museum Of Art 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. Philadelphia July 7, 2024 A good chair is hard to find. I spend my days

Artists Become Curators

Jennifer Knaus’s portrait pulls in the viewer in five different ways. There’s the vivid color choices, the exquisitely rendered, phantasmagorically fecund hair. But perhaps more than anything, there’

Occupying the Ocular

“Friends of Mine“ The Fourth Wall Gallery 473 25th St. Oakland Through July 13 Pablo Picasso once remarked, “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime

Religious Artists Make The World A Gallery

“Life could be black and white like the old TVs. Instead, God made it like an art gallery.” These are the words of Msgr. Paul Steimel on Aug. 27, 2020,

Memories of Home in a Far Away Land

Journey of Memories Carriage House Theater Hartford July 2, 2024 The exhibit Journey of Memories showcases creative works of immigrant women from Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of

Open Studio: Favianna Rodriguez

East Bay Open Studios Favianna Rodriguez West Oakland, Oakland June 15, 2024

Nature, Order, and Disorder in the Art of Life and Death

Artists’ Reception: Tara Esperanza, Christine Meuris, Dalar Alahverdi, Leah Korican, and Elizabeth Sher Mercury 20 Gallery 475 25th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 I was wilting under the heat of

Satire Is Dead. What About Political Cartoons?

Cartoons as Political Speech in Colonial and Contemporary America Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust St. Philadelphia Through Aug. 2, 2024 You’re looking at a black and white cartoon

Bringing Up Radiant Baby

KEITH HARING: RADIANT VISION Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach May 25 – Aug. 25, 2024 This Father’s Day was like any other Long Beach day as I strolled

What’s In A Legacy? Exhibition On Wheels Brings High-School Art To NXTHVN

A small white bus was parked outside of NXTHVN, at 169 Henry St., its walls decorated with handwritten definitions of the word “legacy”: “legacy is saying cheers to the next