Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in December 2014 “Art is for everybody” -Keith Haring Beginning November 8, 2014 through February 16, 2015, the DeYoung presents California’s first Keith Haring exhibit in over two decades. Over 170 works focusing on themes relating to social justice and political concerns shed light on a particular…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in November 2014 “Sharon, I need your help.” That’s how one Thanksgiving Day began many years ago. With a house already full of family and noise, a glassy-eyed relative cornered me whispering that he’d dropped acid earlier in the morning and things weren’t going so well. “Can…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in October 2014 Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. —Oscar Wilde What would you do if you could do it anonymously? It’s a funny question in the age of information when…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco September 2014 If my art had nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for? — Ai Weiwei With Ai Weiwei’s arrest in a Beijing airport in 2011, questions arose. What could one artist do to be perceived as a threat to authorities? The…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco August 2014 edition I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality. —Barnett Newman San Franciscans won’t have to wait for the MOMA to reopen to get…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in June 2014 “What’s that?” The question came from my nephew as he stood gazing at my turntable, the centerpiece of my life while I was growing up. “It’s a record player,” I explained, “and it plays music!” In many ways, it’s an age test. The Oakland…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in May 2014 You can’t exist in a vacuum, you are rooted in time. —Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke is primarily known for his paintings. Alibis: Sigmar Polke, recently published by MOMA New York, illustrates the broad scope of the artists’ work which includes film, drawing, performance, photography installation,…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in April 2014 Through May 11, 2014, the de Young presents an exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings created at Lake George in upstate New York. These landscapes and botanical studies were created between 1918 and the early 1930’s during O’Keeffe’s annual summer trips to Alfred Stieglitz’s family…
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