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Max Blue

Max Blue

KQED Contributor

Max Blue has contributed art criticism and reporting to Artsy, Cultured and Hyperallergic, among others. His short fiction has appeared in The MacGuffin and North Dakota Quarterly, among others. He lives in San Francisco.

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By Max Blue
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Dread Scott Imagines a World Without America

old snapshot of smiling woman in large material-filled studio space, piano in foreground

The Dome Exemplifies the Kind of Artistic Community the Bay Area Needs Now

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Jonathan Calm Photographs the Empty Spaces in American History

Tracing Her Black Ancestry, Trina Michelle Robinson Apprehends the Past

In ICA San José Show, Landscapes Offer a Makeshift Home for Ghostly Figures

Videos at Asian Art Museum Capture the Anxiety and Explosions of ‘Everyday War’

These Art School ‘Artifacts’ Are More Than Meets the Eye

The Wattis Reopens With a Show That Spills Onto a New CCA Campus

With a New Space, MarinMOCA Brings North Bay Art Front and Center

For Mildred Howard, There’s No Time Like the Present

Decade-Old Tenderloin Portraits Glow With Multidimensional Light

Dionne Lee’s ‘Currents’ Offers a Taste of Searching Without a Destination

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