SFGate: Art
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SFMOMA picks Garrels to be its senior curator
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has appointed Gary Garrels senior curator of painting and sculpture. As of Sept. 1 he will replace Madeleine Grynsztejn, who left SFMOMA earlier this year to become director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago....
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'East of the West': Middle East artists
When the subject of Asian Pacific Islander culture comes up, the Middle East is not the first region that comes to mind, which is exactly why the organizers of the 11th annual United States of Asian America Festival wanted to make sure that corner of the...
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Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dies in Fla. at 82
Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg's mediums knew few bounds. One of his most famous works or "combines" was "Bed," created when he woke up in the mood to paint but had no money for a canvas. His solution was to take the quilt off his bed and use paint,...
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Belingheri makes you think about absurdity
To remain credible in a visual culture powered by Google and doctored by Photoshop, abstract painting has to cop to its own absurdity. The work of John Belingheri at Andrea Schwartz characteristically comes with this acknowledgment built in. Can anyone look...
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Oakland Museum gets a makeover
Believe it or not, the Oakland Museum of California is among the most cosmopolitan museums in the nation. Many museums specialize in only one area of collecting - fine arts, historical objects or natural sciences. Housing California-centric collections in all...
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ZEALOUS ZINE / 'Kick Out the Jams': No-concept art project throws open door on creativity, spawns gallery show
"Hot and Cold," the zine art project devised and executed by artists Chris Duncan and Griffin McPart- land, does a few things differently. First, the artists decided at the outset to put out only 10 issues, so they count downward. (The current issue is No. 2.)...
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Museum honors stylish superheroes
A cadre of superheroes has invaded one of Gotham's top cultural institutions, bringing swaths of bright color, pop graphics and an everyman theme to the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Have no fear, though. Their mission is friendly....
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Christian Marclay's musical artworks
The Fraenkel Gallery once again looks beyond its mainstay, photography, to devote a show and publication to freewheeling New York artist Christian Marclay. Some photographs are included, but Marclay makes no great claims for them as artworks. A composer and...
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Fecal Face Dot Gallery thrives in S.F.
One recent Wednesday afternoon, John Trippe sits alone in the back corner of the Fecal Face Dot Gallery, responding to e-mail on his laptop. "Look at this," he says, pointing at a long list of unread messages. "And this is just my personal e-mail. I haven't...
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Creativity Explored marks 'Quarter Century'
For its 25th birthday, San Francisco's Mission District art institution Creativity Explored will throw itself a party. They've dug into the archives, added some new pieces and collected stories and ephemera about their first quarter century. Founded in 1983...
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8 bronzes enhance S.F.'s civic beauty
World-renowned Spanish artist Manolo Valdés has just given an upgrade to San Francisco's checkered landscape of public sculpture. A Tuesday evening dedication ceremony welcomed an ensemble of eight Valdés bronzes to their temporary - through August - new home...
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Enrico Donati - last of the Surrealists, perfume-maker
Enrico Donati, an Italian-born American painter and sculptor considered by many in the art world to be the last of the Surrealists, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 99. The cause was complications of injuries sustained in a taxi accident in...
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Found figurines, sci-fi dreams at galleries
Artists frequently err by trying too hard to put something across - a message, a mood, an attitude or mere impact. The video work of Argentine New Yorker Liliana Porter can present the opposite impression of someone not trying hard enough. An impatient look...
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