Reviews

When mechanical production reached an aesthetic peak. Mark Van Proyen reports.

The unvarnished view of sex and romance. Renny Pritikin reports.

Selections from a legendary conceptualist’s 50-year career. David M. Roth reports.

Environmental waste transformed into objects of conscience and protest. Max Blue reports.

Two innovators. A painter and a ceramic sculptor. David M. Roth reviews.

Digital works that challenge perception. Justin Manley dives in.

An artistic inquiry into mass migration and its myriad causes. David M. Roth reports.

Fresh experiments in liminality from the creator of SF’s Salesforce Tower installation.

Choice selections from the museum’s collection. Renny Pritikin reports.

Words and images strike a power chord. Julia Couzens reviews.

The year’s most memorable exhibitions.

A survey of California Native-American activist art.  Elaine O’Brien reviews.

Martin Cooper made the first cellphone call in 1973. Aitken explores the consequences.

Exemplar of “Bad” Painting struts her stuff. Mark Van Proyen reviews.

A new peak in the aestheticization of disaster. Derek Conrad Murray reports.

Concessions notwithstanding, Beijing censors exhibit. David M. Roth reports.