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Bruce and Jean Conner @ Hosfelt
A Beat-era legendary legacy is enlarged. David M. Roth reports.
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Renny Pritikin on Nina Katchadourian
Shipwreck as a metaphor for artistic response to disaster.
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Ed Moses @ Brian Gross
Late paintings from a revered abstractionist. Mark Van Proyen reports.

Wayne Thiebaud at 100
Survey celebrates an American master. David M. Roth reports.

Mark Van Proyen on David Park @ SFMOMA
A long-awaited retrospective for the master of Bay Area Figurative painting.

In Memoriam: Ed Gilbert
A champion of pioneering Bay Area conceptualists.

Vik Muniz @ Rena Bransten
Photographic sleight-of-hand reframes modernist mannerisms. Mark Van Proyen reports.

Andrew Schoultz @ Hosfelt
A master painter’s works chart the tumult of overheated times. Glen Helfand reports.

Theda’s Island Chapter 9: Konrad’s Village Wood
Our final excerpt of Mark Van Proyen’s novel-in-progress. Theda takes to the dance floor. Nerves fray.

Shelter-in-Place Chronicles 6: Chris Eckert
The artist put fear and worry to work. At first making masks. Then, a machine that simulated breathing.

Mark Van Proyen’s Theda’s Island: The Road Home
A shared ride home takes some very strange turns.

Shelter-in-Place Chronicles 5: Artists Speak
Sculptor Gyöngy Laky offers an optimistic forecast based on what science says about art.

Shelter-in-Place Chronicles 3: Artists Speak
Amy Ellingson and Brad Brown take us inside their studios.

Mark Van Proyen’s ‘Theda’s Island’: Chapter 4
Theda, in full reptilian mode, shows her colors.

Renny Pritikin Remembers: Part 4
George Lucas and Star Wars at YBCA.

Mark Van Proyen’s ‘Theda’s Island’: Chapter 3
Drinking, gawking and gossiping at The Broken Frame.

Renny Pritikin Remembers: Part 3
Barry McGee and the beginning of Bay Area Now at YBCA.

Shelter-in-Place Chronicles 2: Artists Speak
Five Bay Area artists on life and art in the Covid-19 era.