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When I Paint My Masterpiece

Gabe Meline — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:49:07 -0800

"You know what? Screw it.…

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Death, Sex and Art in Sonoma

Jonah Raskin — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:40:00 -0700

Is the new Lawrence Ferlinghetti show at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art his last? Maybe so!…
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A Re'collection' of Napa's History

Catherine Zaw — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:55:16 -0700

Ensuring that we are not going to forget it, the Memory Bank returns again with a subsequent project, Memory Bank II, which will also run as an exhibition that will be displayed from Saturday, August 11 through Sunday, September 23 at the Napa Valley Museum. This community preservation project is an annual intensive endeavor by Preservation Napa Valley, a grass roots non-profit organization that seeks to proudly celebrate and raise awareness for the cultural heritage of Napa County.…
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Mom's First Tattoo

Nicolas Grizzle — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:59:17 -0700

She’s had the idea for a while now, but for whatever reason, didn’t want to really go through with it. This weekend my mom finally took the plunge and got her first tattoo.…
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Here's Tom Waits Talking for Six Awesome Minutes About John Baldessari

Gabe Meline — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:56:49 -0700

If you don't know anything about the great conceptual artist John Baldessari, there may be no better short introduction than the six-minute video below, which is expertly edited and narrated by Tom Waits. But even if you're the world's biggest expert on Baldessari, you'll love this wild ride through Baldessari's life, interspersed with banal objects from his workspace—his pushpins, his desk, his dog, his wi-fi password.…
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Handcar Regatta to Return as Kinetic Frenetic Opera

Gabe Meline — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:35:00 -0800

Ty Jones walks around Railroad Square, relieved and excited.

Relieved because just last week, he and Handcar Regatta co-founder Spring Maxfield—with lawyers, both—officially dissolved the Handcar Regatta name.…
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Remembering Rene

admin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:00:00 -0700

By Cheryl Laube
What a tremendous loss of our dearly beloved Rene di Rosa recently, what a vanguard he was. I knew him for 30 years, and he will be sorely missed, and if you ever met him or knew him and his amazing ways, you already know that.…
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Ricky Watts' 'Growth Hormone Disaster'

Gabe Meline — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:00 -0700

Local street artist Ricky Watts has entered this amazing drawing in Paul Frank's "Art Attack" contest—one of those online voting things where Paul Frank gets a zillion hits from Facebook posts and the winner gets cash for art supplies and exposure in magazines. Watts has consistently been one of our favorite local artists, and he could use both—won't you cruise on over and click on some monkey heads to help him out?…
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Linkmania!

Gretchen Giles — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0700

What to look at now.ArtBabble
Video interviews and small short features on the fine arts, featuring everyone from collectors like Indianapolis sweeties Dorothy and Hubert Vogel to such art stars as Brice Marden.C-Monster
In which a smart, anonymous hipster with an acute eye travels to Peru to visit family, eats memorable meals everywhere, makes it to the Venice Biennale and has appropriate disdain for Damian Hirst.Artworld Salon
Edited by András Szántó from New York, Marc Spiegler, the founder of Wired magazine, from Beijing and Ian Charles Stewart, the curator of Art Basel from Switzerland, this highly curated magazine will accept comments only from those over-the-transom writers whom they feel are worthy. Speaking to a group of international arts journalists today, Szántó had no problem shrugging.…
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Fabric Museum and Workshop in Philadelphia

Gretchen Giles — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0700
[Note: I am currently on a NEA fellowship with the Visual Arts Journalism Institute, which brings 12 U.S. and 12 international journalists together for a two-week intensive at American University in D.C. This is the second assignment.]Several ThreadsFour from Philly take to the walls at the Fabric Workshop and Museum
By Gretchen Giles
Talk about your fish out of water! OK, not a fish but neither a mammal, Mocha Dick, Tristin Lowe’s 52-foot whale at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum is a sculptural dynamo that fills a full third of the FWM’s eighth floor gallery with the irresistible pulse of its presence.…
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Most Obfuscating (And Irritating) Project Tag, Or: Koan My Ass

Gretchen Giles — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0700

Pete Rose, Journey to Q'xtlan,
From the otherwise fabulous Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.

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Seeking America

Gretchen Giles — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0700
[Note: I am currently on a NEA fellowship with the Visual Arts Journalism Institute, which brings 12 U.S. and 12 international journalists together for a two-week intensive at American University in D.C. This is the first assignment.]Seeking AmericaCan you define a country through its capital’s art?
By Gretchen Giles“Are these all monuments to war?” the Colombian journalist shouts up from the back of the bus. As seen from a hired coach lurching along in June’s humid heat, Washington, D.C. resolves as a kinetic collage of green vegetation, burdened tourists and white structures honoring dead men who fought old wars.…
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Forward

Gabe Meline — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0700

Third and Mission, San Francisco:

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Public Art, LSD, and the Red Sox

Gabe Meline — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 -0700

"When I think of public art," Boback Emad keenly observed during an interview earlier this year, "I think of a bunch of children holding hands around a globe."
It was no surprise, then, that when Emad's wife finally succeeded in convincing him to enter Santa Rosa's call for artists to decorate the triangular intersection of College, Healdsburg, and Mendocino Avenues, he discovered that one of the other finalists had submitted, yes—a sculpture of a bunch of children holding hands around a globe.
Emad's design won, and we can all be grateful.…
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SSU: Art Gallery 'Projected Image'

Gretchen Giles — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:00:00 -0800

What if you put on one of the most exciting art exhibits in the North Bay and no one came? Aside from a handful of students and some of the artists themselves, that’s exactly what happened with Sonoma State University Art Gallery's compelling new show, "Projected Image," which opened Feb. 21.…
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