Emerging Legacies: The 19th Annual New Generations Student Showcase

In the same trip as South of Market and Botticelli to Braque, I came across a really wonderful exhibit. Divergence: Emerging Legacies was a three day juried new generations student showcase that included student work from northern California art schools...

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Janet Delaney at the de Young

This weekend after a disastrous attempt to attend a lecture at the San Francisco Art Institute, I visited the de Young hoping to view the museum's featured Botticelli to Braque: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland and Janet Delaney's...

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Revisiting the Feet of Pistoletto

Last month I reviewed Lumpen, an installation by Julia Couzens and Ellen Van Fleet.  Julia Couzens' work, Standing on the Feet of Pistoletto, Memory Conspires to Mobilize a Blanket of Dreams was still yet unfinished at that point, according to...

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Here As Everywhere, Sac State's 11th Art History Symposium

On April 11th, the art department at Sacramento State held it's eleventh annual Art History Symposium.  This year's symposium, titled Here as Everywhere: Art of the Sixties and Seventies in Northern California, dealt with re-looking at regional...

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Award Winners: Sac State's Student Purchase Awards

Currently on view in the Union Gallery at Sacramento State are the results from the university's Student Purchase Awards.  The artworks selected for the awards are chosen by art professionals and then are purchased by the university to put into...

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You Must Be This Tall: Disability Access and the Pursuit of Art

I have only been disabled for about a year and a half.  After an accident that left me unable to walk for the better part of six months, I now walk with a cane and am unable to stand or walk for long periods of time or distances.  That's the context I live in. It has become increasingly...

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Ai Weiwei's @LARGE

As you may well know, Chinese contemporary conceptual artist and activist Ai Weiwei's @LARGE has been on view at Alcatraz in San Francisco for the last several months.  Finally, after many trials and tribulations, I made it to the exhibit...

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