Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan
Artists from Japan and around the world are featured in the Echigo-Tsumart Art Triennial 2009.
Author Archive: Scott Norris
Scott Norris is a writer and publisher of artculture.com
The West Prize Seeks Exciting New Artists
The West Prize for emerging contemporary artists is again accepting applications.
Installation 5: International (and LA) Art in San Jose
The Scion Installation Five Art Tour exhibition opens June 5 at Gallery Anno Domini in San Jose. Bay Area art fans can view works by Souther Salazar, Ron English, Alex Hornest, Yoskay Yamamoto, Nicholas Harper and more.
Human/Nature at the Berkeley Art Museum
The Human/Nature exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is beautiful, both in concept and content. Among other qualities, the show achieves an aura of maturity and real world-relevance that stands in quiet contrast to some of the contemporary art world’s less noble celebrations of cultural currency and market value. It [...]
San Francisco’s New Generation Galleries
San Francisco magazine featured a story in its April arts issue about the city’s changing gallery scene. The premise: A handful of “young and hungry” gallerists are working to transform San Francisco from a backwater to an international power center for emerging contemporary artists. The question asked and answered throughout is whether recent developments in [...]
Alejandro Santiago’s “2501 Migrantes” in Oaxaca
Several years ago the Mexican artist Alejandro Santiago began sculpting 2500 not-quite-life-sized human figures out of clay. Hewn in part with a machete and daubed in the colors of peasants’ clothing, the crude but ingeniously expressive figures are lifelike both in their collectivity and their subdued individuality. They gaze at you in a way that [...]
SFMOMA SECA Award Show
Bay Area art fans still have a few weeks to see the SECA Art Award exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The biennial award is administered by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, an SFMOMA-associated art interest group. Since 1967 the SECA award has honored Bay Area artists of exceptional [...]
In the Wisdom of Light: J.G. Ballard
This is a day of paying tribute to the great J. G. Ballard, who died yesterday at the age of 78. To many, Ballard was a trusted seer and beloved guide through the landscapes of advanced capitalism, decadent consumerism, and attendant social and psychological monstrosities. Like all truth-tellers he was a visionary, and his vision [...]
