Paddy Johnson offers up her honest, candid and sage advice to recent MFA grads on The L Magazine website. She answers some commonly asked questions and addresses common misconceptions with candor and brevity. Not for the faint of heart, yet full of gems for any artist, critic or curator willing to listen. My favorite pearl [read more...]
The June issue of Dazed and Confused featured the striking, embroidered photographs of Maurizio Anzeri. The Italian artist usually works with vintage photographs, but for the D&C feature he worked embroidered details onto bold, contemporary, fashion forward portraits shot by Richard Burbridge and styled by Robbie Spencer for the feature. For a really fabulous interview, [read more...]
David Byrne – Playing the Building
This project took place at the Battery Maritime Building, NYC, in 2008 and was presented by Creative Time. Something made me think of it today and I couldn’t help but post. David Byrne, and this particular [read more...]
Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough is a Bay Area artist and musician who holds an MFA from CCA and performs in the musical group, T.I.T.S. which recently performed at the ArtPadSF art fair. Yarbrough constructs incredibly detailed images out of colored duct tape and contact paper that are at times whimsical or mysterious. I’m a personal fan [read more...]
A&O Events
12.2 6-9pm: Oakland Art Murmur
12.3 10am-12pm: New Museum First Saturdays
10.26 - 1.15: Experience | Carsten Holler New Museum
10.25 - 12.3: When a Rose Is Not a Rose | Claudia Hart Bitforms Gallery
11.4 - 1.22: All | Maurizio Cattelan Guggenheim
12.9 - 12.22: Toxic Women| Andrea Mary Marshall Allegra LaViola GalleryArchives





