Words and images strike a power chord. Julia Couzens reviews.
Reviews
Best of 2019
The year’s most memorable exhibitions.
When I Remember I See Red @ Crocker
A survey of California Native-American activist art. Elaine O’Brien reviews.
Doug Aitken @ Manetti Shrem
Martin Cooper made the first cellphone call in 1973. Aitken explores the consequences.
M. Louise Stanley @ Anglim Gilbert
Exemplar of “Bad” Painting struts her stuff. Mark Van Proyen reviews.
Richard Mosse @ SFMOMA
A new peak in the aestheticization of disaster. Derek Conrad Murray reports.
China Cancels Hung Liu Exhibition
Concessions notwithstanding, Beijing censors exhibit. David M. Roth reports.
Viola Frey @ di Rosa
A retrospective for one of California’s most admired ceramic sculptors. Mark Van Proyen reviews.
Michael Jang @ McEvoy
Unique views of California in the ’70s and ’80s. David M. Roth reports.
Jutta Haeckel @ Hosfelt
Painterly “ecosystems” that behave like force fields. Mark Van Proyen reviews.
Gay Outlaw @ Crown Point Press
Outlaw debuts new etchings and selects gems from CCP archives. Renny Pritikin reports.
Lyndi Sales @ Nancy Toomey
Mind-altering drugs fueled the South African artist’s latest foray into 2-D cut paper works.
‘Dead Nuts’ @ Museum of Craft and Design
A search for the ultimate machined object. David M. Roth reports.
Robert Hudson @ Brian Gross
Funk artist’s drawings point at the roots of Postmodernism. Mark Van Proyen reviews.
György Kepes @ Robert Koch
One highlight of a citywide celebration of Bauhaus-related photography. Max Blue reports.
Richard Mosse @ Altman Siegel
Treasures from the Amazon jungle. Mark Van Proyen reports.