AltWeeklies Wire
Reclaiming the Lives of Undocumented Queersnew
Local artist and activist Julio Salgado uses bold imagery and humor to document the undocumented.
East Bay Express |
Sarah Burke |
01-15-2015 |
Art
The Art of Hypnotherapynew
Oakland artist Carissa Potter shares intimate moments with strangers in a collaborative exhibition involving therapy, meditation, and hypnosis.
East Bay Express |
Sam Levin |
08-06-2014 |
Art
The Graffiti Huntersnew
Urban explorers risk trespassing violations, injury, and even death to photograph a hidden world of aerosol art for all the world to see.
East Bay Express |
April Kilcrease |
06-18-2014 |
Art
Taggers by Night, Muralists by Daynew
Oakland nonprofits want to reduce graffiti by hiring youth to paint murals on sites they've vandalized. Will property owners let them?
East Bay Express |
Sam Levin |
12-17-2013 |
Art
The Chemical Corridornew
In Petrochemical America: Project Room, photographer Richard Misrach and collaborator Kate Orff dive into the toxic swamplands of Louisiana's "Cancer Alley."
East Bay Express |
Sarah Burke |
10-02-2013 |
Art
The Year Oakland Explodednew
For the first time in recent memory, Oakland's being noticed for its culture, not its crime rate. Is that a good thing?
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
12-19-2012 |
Art
Tags: Oakland, Occupy Oakland
MOCO's Meta Spacenew
After an ill-fated show at MOCA, artist Chris Silva transforms Oakland's MOCO into a community-centered Internet cafe.
East Bay Express |
Alex Bigman |
08-24-2012 |
Art
Tags: visual arts, internet cafe
'Myths of Progress' Explores Post-Illusionismnew
Pondering the collapse of cultural community.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
03-04-2012 |
Art
John Casey's Talent Poolnew
A collaborative affair at Swarm Gallery.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
11-07-2011 |
Art
Charles Anselmo Finds Beauty in Decaynew
Charles Anselmo has been traveling to Cuba for more than a decade, photographing the effects of economic deprivation and tropical fecundity on the colonial architecture of Havana (and also championing the work of Cuban photographers here on the big island). His large-format color photographs on paper and silk banners and his small-format black-and-white studies of Cubans in Deconstructions: La Habana pose Macaulay's questions anew for contemporary viewers.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
08-25-2011 |
Art
Robert Armstrong's Disestablishmentariannew
The semi-obscure California artist emerges at Barbara Anderson Gallery, briefly.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
05-10-2011 |
Art
Faith Accompli at the Oakland Museum of California, Part Twonew
Art, religion, and politics, then and now (continued).
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
04-13-2011 |
Art
John Muir and the Walking Curenew
The scientist, revisited.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
03-29-2011 |
Art
Tags: John Muir, Bedford Art Gallery
Old Man River: Hans Hofmann Resurgent at Berkeley Art Museumnew
The abstract expressionist wild men of yore have become our old masters. SFMOMA has its Clyfford Stills, and BAM has its Hans Hofmanns: 47 works the artist donated in the mid-1960s in gratitude for the Bay Area's early recognition of his art.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
01-27-2010 |
Art
How Hi-Fructose Magazine Stayed Sweet in a Bad Economynew
Attaboy and Annie Owens felt marginalized by the art magazine world. The fine arts magazines were too over-theorized and curatorial; the hipster magazines were too self-consciously ironic and sceney. So they created their own.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
07-15-2009 |
Art
