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San Francisco Museums Collaborate with Google to Digitize Collections

San Francisco Museums Collaborate with Google to Digitize Collections

Posted by: Zane Johnston on Apr 3, 2012 | Comments (0)

In a new effort to increase access to local collections through online technology, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the deYoung Museum have joined the Google Art Project.

Gallery Openings: Camille Rose Garcia, Live Sculpt & The Have and Have Not

Gallery Openings: Camille Rose Garcia, Live Sculpt & The Have and Have Not

Posted by: Lily Ko on Apr 2, 2012 | Comments (0)

This week’s best gallery and museum events include a fairytale-esque book signing at SFMOMA, a live sculpture fundraiser at Project One, and a new comic-book inspired group show at Varnish Fine Art.

Showcase from Artist Collective THIS Los Angeles

Showcase from Artist Collective THIS Los Angeles

Posted by: Zane Johnston on Mar 29, 2012 | Comments (0)

The THIS Los Angeles artist collective based in the neighborhood of Highland Park comes to San Francisco Friday, March 30, for a group show titled THIS is us at the RVCA I VASF Gallery.

Figurative-Abstract Painters at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Figurative-Abstract Painters at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Posted by: Zane Johnston on Mar 28, 2012 | Comments (0)

On March 23, the Museum of the African Diaspora premiered a new exhibition which features nine Bay Area artists active from the 1960s and 1970s to the present who lean towards abstract representation but do not not disregard figuration in their work.

Gallery Openings: Playland, This Is Us & The Silver Era

Gallery Openings: Playland, This Is Us & The Silver Era

Posted by: Lily Ko on Mar 26, 2012 | Comments (0)

This week’s top visual arts events include Playland 2012 at the Conservatory of Flowers, a new show at RVCA VASF, and Southern Exposure’s annual art auction, The Silver Era.

Facundo Argañaraz Divines the Unstable Future of Aesthetics

Facundo Argañaraz Divines the Unstable Future of Aesthetics

Posted by: Zane Johnston on Mar 21, 2012 | Comments (0)

Argentinian born artist Facundo Argañaraz will display Rapture Ready: Space Planning and Aesthetics at The Popular Workshop starting Friday March 23 and continuing through April 27.

Literary Events: Why America Failed, The Reeducation of Cherry Truong & More

Literary Events: Why America Failed, The Reeducation of Cherry Truong & More

Posted by: Lily Ko on Mar 20, 2012 | Comments (0)

This week’s best literary arts events include author appearances by Morris Berman, Dave Eggers and Aimee Phan.

Gallery Openings: Get Hungry!, David Buckingham & More

Gallery Openings: Get Hungry!, David Buckingham & More

Posted by: Lily Ko on Mar 19, 2012 | Comments (0)

This week’s best gallery openings include SF Station and Lomography’s Get Hungry!, a new show by David Buckingham and a big, juried photography exhibit at RayKo.

The Creators Project Marries Art With Digital Technology

The Creators Project Marries Art With Digital Technology

Posted by: Zane Johnston on Mar 19, 2012 | Comments (0)

Design geeks, software engineers and digital artist-coders came together at Fort Mason Center for The Creators Project, a two-day showcase that honors cross-disciplinary pioneers who engage with digital technology in novel ways.

Kool Kid Kreyola Says Enter ‘The Belly of the Beast’

Kool Kid Kreyola Says Enter ‘The Belly of the Beast’

Posted by: Zane Johnston on Mar 15, 2012 | Comments (0)

Gadding about town, it’s hard not to stumble upon the sticker bearing the insignia of artist Kool Kid Kreyola aka Erlin Geffrard—it definitely catches the eye.

‘The Brinksman’ by Cleon Peterson at Guerrero Gallery

‘The Brinksman’ by Cleon Peterson at Guerrero Gallery

Posted by: Zane Johnston on Mar 13, 2012 | Comments (0)

A new exhibition by Cleon Peterson titled “The Brinksman” presents a series of paintings that imagine a dystopian world where violence and self-interest predominate and the bonds of community have been broken.