A ripe-for-the-times body of apocalyptic work. Glen Helfand reports.
Reviews
Ruth Rippon @ Crocker Art Museum
Ideas of gender equality hide (in plain view) in the works of a 90-year-old ceramic sculptor. Elaine O’Brien reports.
Hung Liu: ‘Daughters of China’ @ Kala + Interview!
The longstanding impact of a propaganda film on the most celebrated Chinese-American artist.
Jewish Folktales Retold @ CJM
Fresh interpretations from 16 contemporary artists. Maria Porges reports.
Robert Rauschenberg @ SFMOMA
A retrospective look at one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. Mark Van Proyen Reports.
This is Not a Selfie @ San Jose Museum of Art
Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Patricia Albers reports.
Joe Amrhein & Teo González @ Brian Gross
A tale of two painters: one conceptual/political, the other abstract.
Ragnar Kjartansson’s ‘The Visitors’ @ SFMOMA
The most ambitious music video installation ever? Justin Manley makes the case.
Cornelia Schulz and Carrie Lederer @ Patricia Sweetow
Extreme abstraction meets visionary realism. Julia Couzens reports.
About Abstraction @ Bedford
An A-List group of Bay Area painters — all female. Barbara Morris reports.
Klimt & Rodin @ Legion of Honor
Two modernist masters in dialog. Maria Porges reports.
East as Eden: Martin Wong @ BAMPFA & Anglim Gilbert
No artist better encapsulated the East Village of the 1980s. Robert Atkins reports.
Seth Koen @ Gregory Lind
With mere lines, Koen creates allusive works that alter perception of space and volume.
Marc D’Estout & Jay Kelly @ Jack Fischer
Two artists probe (and recast) the primitive roots of Modernism.
Ebitenyefa Baralaye @ MoAD
Ceramics and textiles tell of a diasporic identity. Maria Porges reports.
Nina Katchadourian @ Cantor Arts Center
An artist who makes us “curiouser and curiouser.” David M. Roth reports.