SquareCylinder and the Bay Area’s New Era for Art and Art Journalism is a June 7th event to be held at the Minnesota Street Project that celebrates the relaunch of SquareCylinder.
Archives for May 2025
Terri Loewenthal, “Mt. Tam”
by: Caroline Picard
Terri Loewenthal’s “Mt. Tam,” includes six large format photographs in an intimate gallery a stone’s throw away from the Pacific Ocean, in a remote town on the other side of its subject, Mt. Tamalpais.
John Wehrle, “Time and Tide”
by: DeWitt Cheng
“Time & Tide” reprises the long career and curious, playful, gently ironic temperament of muralist John Wehrle.
Private Funding and Public Art: In Whose Best Interest?
by: Max Blue
A San Francisco museum director remarked that, now that their museum isn’t reliant on federal funding, they’ll be free to program as they please. But many private funders share interests with those currently in the current government. I’m concerned.
10 x 10 for 10:
by: John Held, Jr.
“10×10 for 10: Ten Years of Letterform Archive” brings together 100 examples from the Archive’s collection of calligraphy and typographically oriented graphics.
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
by: Renny Pritikin
“Ruth Asawa: Retrospective” is a massive gathering of more than 300 objects that will make you rethink much of what you knew about her art and life.
Art and Celebrity Relics
by: Mark Van Proyen
Paul McCartney’s photographs, in spite of receiving major museum treatment at the de Young, are much more celebrity relics than they are serious works of art.
Wendel A. White, “Schools for the Colored”
by: Theodore (Ted) Barrow
Wendel A White’s interpretation of segregated schools trembles with tension that oscillates between a distant past and an ominous future.
Enrique Martínez Celaya, “The Wilderness”
by: DeWitt Cheng
Poetic feeling is the goal for Enrique Martínez Celaya in his improvisational, experimental work, which he describes as “committed to life, not just art.”
Mitra Fabian, “Seeping Through Domestic Dissonance”
by: DeWitt Cheng
Mitra Fabian festoons a 12-foot square enclosed space of scorched boards with strange forms that look like mutant mushrooms.