Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in June 2019 More than 60 works on loan from the museum of Fine Arts in Boston comprise the exhibit Tattoos in Japanese prints at the Asian Art Museum. The woodcuts are what remain of the popular art of urban life in Japan, specifically 19th-century tattoo culture….
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in May 2019 From May 19 through September 2, 2019, the SFMOMA will present the first retrospective of the work of Andy Warhol in twenty five years. At the time of his death in 1987, Warhol wasn’t widely considered a relevant artist. Having saturated the world of…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in April 2019 The Flemish Baroque master painter Peter Paul Rubens spent pivotal years, between 1609 and 1621, in Antwerp. During this time, he refined what would become his trademark style. The Legion of Honor is presenting a unique survey of this period which set the stage…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in March 2019 Through March 24, 2019, SFAI will exhibit a curated selection of the 100 original Polaroid photographs and 50 gelatin silver prints gifted by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In 2013, the Foundation followed up with another round educational institution gifts, this…
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Originally published in the Marina Times in March 2019 The year was 1997. A French software engineer, Philippe Kahn, had become a father. Using a cobbled-together device consisting of his mobile phone, a digital camera and a linked online network, Kahn transmitted a grainy color photo of his newborn daughter Sophie. In the history of…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in February 2019 During the years 1913 until his death in 1926, Claude Monet explored an increasingly vibrant abstract painting style originating from the gardens he cultivated around his home in Giverny. Known as the greatest landscape painter of the Impressionist group, this will be the first…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in January 2019 “ First They Came” is a poem written by the German Lutheran pastor and theologian Martin Niemöller about cowardice in the face of the rise of the Nazi party leading up to World War II. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum quotes this portion…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in December 2018 Art publishing in 2018 produced a variety of interesting possibilities for the art lover on your Christmas list. Any fan of the British royal family will love Buckingham Palace: The Interiors published by Rizzoli. This rare look into the interior living space of the…
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