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Max Blue

KQED Contributor

Max Blue has contributed art criticism and reporting to Artsy, Cultured and Hyperallergic, among others. His short fiction has appeared in The MacGuffin and North Dakota Quarterly, among others. He lives in San Francisco.

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By Max BlueBy Max Blue

paint covered aprons, wooden stands for drawing and a modernist abstract painting

These Art School ‘Artifacts’ Are More Than Meets the Eye

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low-slung building with grasses in foreground

The Wattis Reopens With a Show That Spills Onto a New CCA Campus

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With a New Space, MarinMOCA Brings North Bay Art Front and Center

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sculpture of two hands holding rolling pin with lips on the wood

For Mildred Howard, There’s No Time Like the Present

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Person with curly blonde hair smokes cigarette in front of red wall

Decade-Old Tenderloin Portraits Glow With Multidimensional Light

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two video monitors on floor and two small black-and-white photographs spotlit in gallery

Dionne Lee’s ‘Currents’ Offers a Taste of Searching Without a Destination

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three textile pieces on white walls with windows

An Artist Stitches Stories of Family Separation at the Bolinas Museum

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White-walled space with hanging text piece over desk, video tower, sculpture and wall work

Lindsey White’s ‘Fantastico!’ Is an Elegy for SFAI — and an Indictment of Academia

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Framed abstract painting on wall, wicker hair with human-like arms and legs in front of it

Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealism Invites Us to Sit With Uncertainty

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