I was today years old, when I learned a lot more about artist Ruth Asawa. I knew that she repped the Bay; she was born in Norwalk in 1926 and died in San Francisco 12 years ago. That she inspired and supported Ruth’s Table, a community arts initiative for older adults located in the Mission. […]
Breonna Taylor lived. She existed. And she came to mean something. Not only because Black Lives Matter but because she mattered. Still does. Five years after her death, some people would have you forget about her. But you cannot. You may not. Thanks to artists like Amy Sherald – whose (first) career retrospective, American Sublime, […]
Bay Area! This Labor Day weekend, don’t go all tits out, OK. Chill. Let Wayne Thiebaud’s “Girl with Pink Hat” have all the end-of-summer fun, so that you – so that we all – may be able to visit with her at the SFMOMA, when the museum is finally allowed to reopen. COVID-19’s still very much […]
I first became aware of Dawoud Bey at the end of 2018, in Miami Beach, when I was out there working on this fun #MiamiArtWeek2018 content. I remember it was a real the-rain-has-passed kinda Sunday afternoon on Indian Beach Park, where the PULSE Miami Beach art fair had set up shop for its 14th edition. […]
How lucky am I, to have seen two James Rosenquists, two months apart, on two different coasts. It’s the American Dream. Now, I’m not sure about “Women’s Intuition (After Aspen),” which caught my eye at the Pérez Art Museum Miami during #MiamiArtWeek2018, but I can tell you that the fantastic “Leaky Ride for Dr. Leakey,” currently […]
King of Cups 