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Max Blue writes: When I studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in the 2010s, it was the last institutional gasp of the DIY ethos that refused to separate politics from art. Nowhere did that spirit burn brighter than at SFAI.
Recently a computer engineer friend working on artificial intelligence remarked that he thinks start-up entrepreneurs are the avant-garde artists of our time. When he said this, I bristled.
Is the model of a small to medium-sized urban arts institution no longer viable in Northern California?
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.
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.
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.
What could be more fitting at this moment under the rule of our crime family from Queens than a few choice quotes from the Godfather trilogy?
And … we are back! That’s right, after a nine-month hibernation, Square Cylinder has returned, providing critical coverage of visual art exhibitions in northern California. Founding publisher David M. Roth has passed the baton to DeWitt Cheng, Bill Lasarow and myself, each bringing decades of experience assessing the visual arts. With a re-vamped visual format […]
That headline sounds pretty simple, obvious even. But in a once radically new digital age now morphing into the even more unpredictable era of AI, neither words nor art can be taken as the given that both once were. When I first began publishing back in the 1980s everything was printed, and reading — about […]
