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Masami Teraoka’s Message to Moscow
A master provocateur takes aim at our current malaise. David M. Roth reports.
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Marc Katano @ Jack Fischer
Pushing the bounds of non-objective abstraction. David M. Roth reviews.
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Mark Van Proyen on Alice Neel
A spellbinding retrospective of one of America’s greatest portrait artists.

Jaimie Baron on Kara Maria
Pop-inflected visions of environmental apocalypse.

Maria Porges on Rebekah Goldstein
Artist revisits the ’60s notion of the shaped canvas, blurring the line between sculpture and painting.

Meridel Rubenstein @ Brian Gross
Photographer shows a world unmoored. David M. Roth reviews.

Christine Elfman @ Euqinom
Antiquarian photos place ephemerality front and center. Renny Pritikin reports.

Judith Belzer @ Hosfelt
Primordial intimations of impending doom. David M. Roth reviews.

Book Review: Michael Brennan’s Pandemonium
An alternately funny and elegiac love letter to the SF art community. Mark Van Proyen reviews.

Jonathan Calm @ Rena Bransten
Photos that point to pivotal moments in American history. Renny Pritikin reports.

‘Writing’ with Light @ SF State
Divergent trends in photography point to a common denominator. Jaimie Baron reports.

David M. Roth on the Candy Store Gallery
Two exhibitions shed light on a small-town gallery with an outsize impact.

Wanxin Zhang @ Catharine Clark
Chinese traditions meet Bay Area Funk. Renny Pritikin reports.

Jaimie Baron on the ‘Orchestration’ of Scent
MCD show examines our most neglected sensory apparatus

The Art of Resistance @ Manetti Shrem
Acts of artistic protest. Jaimie Baron reports.

Alec Soth @ Fraenkel
Humanism suffused with the oddness of life’s random moments. Renny Pritikin reports.

Mark Van Proyen on Dilexi Gallery
New book documents “the richest decade” in Northern California art.

Lisa McCutcheon @ Dolby Chadwick
Uncanny collages that trick the eye and elicit double-takes. Mark Van Proyen reports.