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Sid Garrison's work in colored pencil in Limn
San Franciscan Sid Garrison displays impressive staying power in his fourth show of drawings at Limn Gallery. Garrison works in colored pencil in a manner at once abstract, improvisational and subtly responsive to pressures of the wider culture. His medium...
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If Goya didn't paint 'Colossus,' who did?
For years Spain's famed Prado Museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Goyas. Now the museum says it is certain the painting is not by the 18th century master. The Prado's announcement last week about the "Colossus," a large oil painting...
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Painter Fernand Léger - the granddaddy of Pop?
The "modest and little" Statue of Liberty, a gift from his country, did not impress Fernand Léger as he watched from the deck of a liner sailing into the inner harbor of New York Bay in 1931. But the artist was immediately fascinated by the sight of the...
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Art review: Chihuly at the de Young
Admirers of empty virtuosity may thrill to "Chihuly at the de Young," the de Young Museum's celebration of contemporary glass master Dale Chihuly. But so will those among the art public building a dossier against director John Buchanan's leadership of the...
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Women in art: 'Impressionists,' 'Kahlo'
It was supposed to be an epochal Year of the Woman. With Hillary Clinton cruising toward the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, 2008 would represent a historic breakthrough, a triumph of gender equality and opportunity. Now, in the wake of Clinton's...
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'Social Conditioning' examines growth process
Every day seems to bring a new headline in the nature versus nurture debate. Genetic research has pinpointed our inherited traits down to which side we part our hair on, but the effects of socialization also can be tracked from infancy onward. Femina Potens' "...
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'The Concrete Jungle Book': A different animal
Artists have used mixed media with great success to push the boundaries of art. Picasso's use of collage, for instance, helped develop methods of expression in Cubism. In an effort to push book publishing into the 21st century, a writer, a schoolteacher and a...
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Guggenheim celebrates Louise Bourgeois, 96
Imagine being a leader in your field for more than 60 years. Imagine rubbing shoulders and exchanging ideas with the artistic greats of the last half-century. Imagine succeeding on your own terms. It's a feat few have achieved. It's a feat even fewer woman...
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Asian showcases 'Power and Glory' of Ming era
As all eyes turn toward Beijing with the 2008 Olympic Games approaching, the Asian Art Museum led a chain of China-related events in Bay Area institutions with the opening Friday of "Power and Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty." This grand show...
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Eleanor Harwood at Lincart Gallery
As befits a painter who started a curatorial program at the Adobe Bookshop in San Francisco, Eleanor Harwood loves stories. "Everything I do has a narrative," Harwood says. "Even when there are abstract shapes, they have a story. ... Whenever I put together a...
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Review: 'Frida Kahlo' at SFMOMA
"Frida Kahlo," the beautifully presented retrospective that opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, leaves us to answer why her posthumous renown has eclipsed that of her husband, Diego Rivera. Certainly, art by women has gained a credence...
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