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Illuminations
Published Jan. 25, 2012
While sampling one of the “immersive environments” in Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, I suffered a mild panic attack, but don’t let that keep you away. Bruce ...
Big Black Sun
Published Dec. 14, 2011
I know people who say they’re from the ’60s as some people say they’re from Paris or New York. It’s not descriptive, it’s declarative, proudly (or smugly) so, and vaguely definitive of their politics. I don’t ...
I Gotta Use Words When I Talk to You
Published Nov. 16, 2011
Born in 1960, the African-American artist Glenn Ligon grew up in housing projects in the Bronx but attended the privileged, mostly white Walden School in Manhattan, a one-hour commute each way. Later, after majoring in art ...
The Visceral Surge of Spanish Art
Published Oct. 12, 2011
The plummy walls of the San Diego Museum of Art give the exhibition they surround, From El Greco to Dalí, a velvet jewel-case warmth. If ... More Post a comment
Human Passing
Published Sept. 14, 2011
We’re cognizant of but normally don’t heed the fact that we’re hostages of fortune. I sometimes think photography was invented as a memory aid to ... More Post a comment
Home Is Where the Art Is
Published Aug. 17, 2011
When the American furniture manufacturer Gustav Stickley returned from a trip to England in 1897, he brought back an idea promulgated by John Ruskin (social ... More Post a comment
If You Don't Dig
Published July 20, 2011
A Medusa has moved into my neighborhood. I live in San Francisco, three blocks from Haight Street. I don’t go down there much because it’s ... More Comment (1)
Welder at Work
Published June 15, 2011
Some clichés smell okay, others stink. Whenever I hear a California enthusiast hyperventilating about how the West Coast is culturally “cutting edge” and so “out ... More Post a comment
The Way We Were
Published May 11, 2011
The atrium at the Museum of Photographic Arts offers an essay on what we thought we were as a people during the ’50s and ’60s. ... More Post a comment
Flaunt It: Racy Women from Regal Times at SDMA
Published April 13, 2011
As a warm-up before you see the splashy Gainsborough exhibition running at the San Diego Museum of Art, make a pass at Fragonard’s late 1770s ... More Comments (2)
Woodwork by Hodgkin
Published March 16, 2011
I’m sitting on a bench in the San Diego Museum of Art, which has just opened an exhibition by the British painter Howard Hodgkin. Pretty ... More Post a comment
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