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01/21/12--18:30: Inventive Re-Use (chan 2089207)

Terry Berlier is an inveterate recycler and a committed anti-consumerist. Her sculptures repurpose and recombine outmoded technologies and salvaged materials to generate new patterns of perception. She is a perfect fit for Recology, where an unusual artist-in-residence program offers unrestricted access to the dump. Between October 2011 and January 2012, Berlier’s inventive foraging produced close [...]


01/22/12--20:47: Le Sacre Du Printemps (reconstructed) (chan 2089207)

The Joffrey Ballet in Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) Choreography : Vaslav Nijinsky Music: Igor Stravinsky There are days that I need to remember that patience is a virtue. Times when I stay still and listen, giving the world a chance to wash over me with a pandora’s box of beauty. Today [...]


01/23/12--07:00: One on One: Victoria Gannon on Francesca Woodman (chan 2089207)

When I was 22 I couldn’t imagine life going on any longer. It wasn’t because I was sad or depressed, though I probably was. It was because I could not see beyond that year, at the end of which I would graduate from college. That event — my graduation — had loomed for so long [...]


01/24/12--07:41: JAN 24 (chan 2089207)






01/24/12--09:26: The Holy Spirit Of The Sea (chan 2089207)

“The only thing you have to hold onto is your own natural savagery and your ability to recognize your own natural savagery has been given to you by this art which in turn is the cause of your anxiety about not being able to recognize anything but yourself. And that is the last thing one [...]


01/24/12--20:16: Congratulations, Alla Efimova! (chan 2089207)

The institution formerly known as the Judah L. Magnes Museum reopened last Sunday in a new format. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life invited the community to view its splendid new quarters in downtown Berkeley, a site once used by the University as a printing plant.   The 25,000 square-foot building is three [...]


01/25/12--07:00: SECA 50th Anniversary Artist on Artist Talks, starting THURSDAY with DAVID BEST (chan 2089207)

Tomorrow night, sculptor DAVID BEST (1977 SECA Art Award), well-known for his fantastic art cars and immense temporary temple constructions at Burning Man, kicks off a new iteration of our One on One  talks with an in-gallery chat about Joan Brown’s Noel in the Kitchen. It’s going to be awesome. In conjunction with FIFTY YEARS [...]


01/25/12--13:24: Diary of a Crazy Artist : Day 1 (chan 2089207)

Once upon a time artists mostly produced art. These days, however, artists are supposed to put on shows; curate shows; deal with media, with marketing, with galleries (and with gallerists!), with designing their own websites, with photographing their work, with not dressing like a slob, with paying rent for both their apartment and their studio; [...]


01/27/12--09:22: Life in the Archives (chan 2089207)

More than a repository of objects or texts, the archive is the process of selecting, ordering, and preserving the past—in short,  making history. Artists, scholars, and activists have been rethinking the politics of what archives preserve (thus, what constitutes cultural memory).  A growing list of exhibitions, conferences, panels, seminars, and publications give play to archival [...]


01/28/12--10:59: Diary of a Crazy Artist : Day 2 Art in America is just like the Khmer Rouge (chan 2089207)

Last week, when Art in America compared an Occupy Wall Street speaker to the Khmer Rouge, I thought maybe they just lost some of their credibility. Come on. One day Occupy Wall Street is all filthy, dirty homeless hippies and the next day they are a cult of genocidal maniacs? You can do better Art [...]