Reviews

Kos took a lower-key approach than did his peers, the result being conceptual art at its most poetic.

Ed Ruscha curates an all-star show that puts the range of etching’s possibilities on view. Maria Porges reports.

Dreams, memory, fetish and fantasy are examined through a Victorian/postmodern lens. Julia Couzens reports.

Guided by process discoveries, Burckhardt reworks modernist tropes and tribal iconography into fresh visions.

After a 3-year Hiatus SFMOMA reopens with the 10-story Snøhetta addition — home to the Fisher Collection and more.

Diebenkorn’s sketchbooks offer a link to an early influence: Edward Hopper. Lawrence Gipe reports.

Olson strips digital photos down to their essences. Mikko Lautamo reports.

Borderlines: Images and sounds mix the tragic and the inscrutable. Patricia Albers reports

“Shortest Stories and Exhortations” treats the line between adulthood and childhood as a permeable membrane.

A critical, panoramic view of the past century.

“Particles: A Painting in Ten Chapters” chronicles the artist’s boy-to-man trajectory. Lawrence Gipe reports.

Hawkinson uses his body to measure the psychic parameters of corporeal existence.

Arneson called “Guardians of the Secret II” his “masterpiece.” David M. Roth reports.

Rosenthal carries “the freight of painting, stripped to its bones, across a vast American landscape.” Julia Couzens reports.

Bay Area satirist continues his examination of colonialism in the Americas. Tirza True Latimer reports.

With “Circle of Animals: Zodiac Heads” Ai tackles issues of value and cultural patrimony.