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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
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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gallery with framed black and white photographs on walls

Jonathan Calm Photographs the Empty Spaces in American History

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A pedestal holding a burnt-red colored book is surrounded by dry foliage of similar height inside a room with yellowish walls

Tracing Her Black Ancestry, Trina Michelle Robinson Apprehends the Past

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wide landscape painting with nude figures lounging, framed by spiky wooden sculptures

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

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

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paint covered aprons, wooden stands for drawing and a modernist abstract painting

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

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low-slung building with grasses in foreground

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

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

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sculpture of two hands holding rolling pin with lips on the wood

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

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Person with curly blonde hair smokes cigarette in front of red wall

Decade-Old Tenderloin Portraits Glow With Multidimensional Light

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two video monitors on floor and two small black-and-white photographs spotlit in gallery

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

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three textile pieces on white walls with windows

An Artist Stitches Stories of Family Separation at the Bolinas Museum

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