Art Review | Oct 12, 2008

Art of Democracy: War and Empire

Politics are not subtle, political communication is necessarily fast, strident, and goal oriented. The best art on the other hand has a subtlety and an ambiguity that inspires contemplation and allows for multiple interpretations. By Jennine Scarboro

Art Review | Oct 11, 2008

Art of Democracy: War and Empire

War is eternal. It is constant, like a heartbeat, an ever-present part of the human condition. It is always with us, staining the whole of human history with the blood spilled. It is drama on a grand scale, which is why it appears so often in works of art. By Mark Taylor

Gallery Crawl | Oct 08, 2008

People in Your Neighborhood -- October 2008

Gallery Crawl checks out A Moment for Reflection: New Work by Lydia Fong at Ratio 3 and visits Gallery 16's fifteenth anniversary exhibition, These Are The People In Your Neighborhood.

Art Review | Oct 04, 2008

Timothy Horn at the de Young

It was my first time at the remodeled de Young Museum and it was a circus. No, really. The Gregangelo and Velocity Circus was there as part of the Friday Nights at the de Young event series. By Victoria Gannon

Art Review | Sep 30, 2008

Vocabularies of Metaphor: More Stories

Joan Didion said it so well: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." We take our messy lives and we insert opening scenes and arcing plots and eventual morals. We organize facts and occurrences and impressions into narratives, which we tell and retell, amend, edit, and tell again. By Victoria Gannon

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