Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all the spaces that reason has not been able to ... Read More
Beginning Oct. 30, the Asian Art Museum will present a uni-que opportunity to illustrate where European, American, and Japanese art intersect. Looking East: How Japan Inspired Mone... Read More
Hold! You crafty ones, strangers to work, and pilferers of other men’s brains! Think not rashly to lay your thievish hands upon my works. Beware! Know you not that I have a ... Read More
When an artist begins a painting, we imagine tubes of paint lined up next to brushes. These tools are set next to an easel in proximity of comfortable access, and then the proper l... Read More
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with the Tate Britain and the J. Paul Getty Museum present J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free, the first major survey of the a... Read More
Musician, singer, writer, and artist Vivian Stanshall is perhaps best known as the charismatic front man of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, whose albums and stage antics brought them... Read More
I’ll never forget my visit to the Huntington Museum and Library to view their collection of William Blake watercolors. Rarely displayed, the exhibition was packed with museum... Read More
“The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.” — Lawrence Ferlinghett... Read More
Through March 12, 2015, The Dryansky Gallery is featuring the work of David Mitchell in the exhibition Boundaries. The gallery opened last fall and is offering San Francisco a fres... Read More
In December 1950, Neal Cassady wrote a letter to his friend Jack Kerouac. Like a message in a bottle, these pieces of paper traveled, lost in time, only to resurface years later in... Read More
"Art is for everybody." — Keith Haring... Read More
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." — Oscar Wilde... Read More
“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 2... Read More
“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.” — Barnet... Read More
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,... Read More