Attendees are not treated by this work as passive receptors, or people passing judgment, or those seeking to be entertained, with a singular show-as-object at the center of attention. No Hero aims instead to be one part of an exchange. Read more…
Visual art
Scribbles: Escape from a Wasteland Musings on Rothko, Eliot, and Urbanity
I am in front of a void waiting to be filled, a window, beckoning me through its frame. I feel hopeful, but tragic. Uplifted, but suppressed. Ecstatic, but tense. I feel it from within. Floating in front of me on the wall of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art: Mark Rothko’s No. 14, 1960. Read more…
Capturing (Un)Reality Diane Arbus at SFMOMA
Wandering up the pristine, evenly-spaced wooden stairs you step away from the general collection of Calders and Rothkos and into the world of New York’s freak show imagery. Read more…
Home Land Security/Homeland Anxiety “Is this land made for you and me?”
The first day of winter break, with Trump’s inauguration looming, I visited the Home Land Security exhibit in San Francisco — an eighteen-artist installation in the city’s abandoned military bunkers and out-of-use nuclear missile administration buildings. The featured artists were from eleven countries, and worked in media from paint to Duct Tape to bullets. Read more…
The Spirit of the Mulleavys Rodarte's Spring/Summer 2017 Collection Is Not Just "For the Bees"
All at once, the clothes contain the structure and sharpness of honeycomb and the dreamy ethereality of a fairytale. Read more…
Scribbles: O Eaftos
O Eaftos offers us a brief respite from the imposition of our digital world by breaking free of its confines, ultimately creating our own individual performances of the self. Read more…
60 Years of Abstraction: Frank Stella at the Anderson and the de Young A modernist titan reflects on a long and storied career.
During his visit to the Anderson Collection at Stanford, the celebrated artist Frank Stella led a small group of students around the galleries while reflecting on his career, his art, and the works on display at the Anderson. Read more…
Scribbles: Queer Romance
I instantly felt a sense of liberation in seeing a work that captured a queer romantic experience with such intensity and truth. Read more…
Designer Drag: Neal Ulrich’s Queer Tomorrows
“Once you’re laughing together, you can be like, oh by the way, you’re contributing to the hegemonic patriarchy.” Read more…
Disembodying the Body
If their exhibition “Mark These Cradles” dis-embodies the embodied, Maia Paroginog’s sketchbooks rend the embodied to pieces. Read more…