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Human/Nature at the Berkeley Art Museum

• May 29, 2009 • Comments (3)
Diana Thater: RARE. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery, New York

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 [...]

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Public Art in the Tenderloin

• May 15, 2009 • Comments (2)
Cultural Geometry, Rigo 23 and Fernando Cardoso

Cultural Geometry is a new piece of public art by Rigo 23, the San Francisco-based political artist and muralist.  The work is a large stone mosaic which comprises the heart of the “Tenderloin National Forest”, a public space reclamation project led by the luggage store, a San Francisco arts organization.  Many years in development, the [...]

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