Gallery Crawl | Nov 20, 2009

Sparrow Lane -- November 2009, Pt. 1

View the Gallery Crawl interview with photographer Holly Andres. Her Sparrow Lane series, on view at SF's Robert Koch Gallery through December 24, depicts a mysterious narrative about the transitional space between girlhood and womanhood.

Art Review | Nov 18, 2009

Maxwell's Megarealms

Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch wants you to see his studio. But since it's weird to invite strangers into one's personal space, he has set up a condensed version of it inside Fecal Face Dot Gallery and called it Megarealms. By Kristin Farr

Art Review | Nov 17, 2009

The Road to Afterlife

Afterlife continues an international tradition of making art out of everyday objects, including the stuff most of us routinely kick to the curb. By Ben Marks

Art Review | Nov 16, 2009

Tara Foley: Either in a Million Years or Until the Bitter End

There is something familiar about Tara Foley's work, the way a Grimm's fairy tale can feel familiar and yet unexplored. By Molly Samuel

Event | Nov 12, 2009

IN YOUR FACE: Contemporary Brazilian Art at YBCA

The tables have turned: instead of telling you what we think about art shows, we're hitting the streets to find out what the beautiful people think. This month, we headed to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to revel in the Brazilian spirit of their latest exhibition, When Lives Become Form. By Emmanuel Hapsis

Event | Nov 09, 2009

Picturing Evolution

Just in time for the 150th anniversary of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Bay Area photographer Susan Middleton and author Mary Ellen Hannibal have released a new book called Evidence of Evolution and plan to discuss it this week at the California Academy of Sciences. By Molly Samuel

Spark | Nov 02, 2009

Amalia Mesa-Bains

See how Amalia Mesa-Bains's students compile a collective altar, following the traditions an ancient Aztec holiday, by gracing it with flowers, candles, and other offerings.

Art Review | Nov 02, 2009

Art in Storefronts

Art in Storefronts makes sense: local artists get visibility, empty storefronts look better than they did before, and maybe some people will visit (and linger in) neighborhoods they wouldn't have otherwise. By Molly Samuel

Art Review | Oct 26, 2009

Sew Rad: Steve MacDonald at Gallery Three

Imagine cranking out dynamic thread drawings of shark jaws, Campbell's soup cans and brass knuckles on a vintage sewing machine. The fact that Steve MacDonald can do such things has blown my mind for years. By Kristin Farr

Spark | Oct 24, 2009

Sebastião Salgado

Visit the new David Brower Center in Berkeley to see the work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose work reveal the human condition -- from laborers in Latin America to refugees from war and famine in Africa and elsewhere.

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