August 2016
One is the loneliest number. (pdf)
Essay for the exhibition Quiet Please: The Mental Game of Art and Tennis at the Berkeley Art Center, with work by Libby Black, George Pfau, Jennie Ottinger, and Andrew Witrak. July 30 – August 28, 2016
Catalog download here
August 2016
Subversive Novelist Seeks Her Muse in Pictures
Review of photo exhibition curated by Hanya Yanagihara at Fraenkel Gallery, Aperture.com
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June 2016
Todd Haynes SAFE Spaces: To Be Young and in the Dark and Falling in Love
An appreciation of the filmmaker published on Keyframe / Fandor
May 2016
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360: Views on the Collection
On Bill Owens' "We're really happy. Our kids are healthy, we eat good food and we have a really nice home." 1971 (pdf)
On Matthew Barney's CREMASTER 2: The Drone's Exposition, 1999 (pdf)
May 2016
Signs of the Times, 2016
Catalog essay for Mills College MFA exhibition.
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April 2016
At San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, a New Frontier for Photography
Interview with curator Sandra Phillips, Aperture
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March 2016
Congratulations Pine Tree 80— Clearing the Mind (with Glen Helfand)
Audio podcast interview with Kate Rhoades and Maysoun Wazwaz
February 2016
Behind the Scenes with Gregory Crewdson
On the documentary "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters." Published on Fandor.
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January 2016
Paul Graham takes over Pier 24 with his American Trilogy
Interview with photographer Paul Graham in British Journal of Photography
December 2015
Gods and Monsters: Murakami Goes to the Movies, 2015
Criterion Collection DVD liner notes on Takashi Murakami's Jellyfish Eyes, 2013
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Related: September 2008
J-Pop Sucker Punch (pdf)
Review of © Murakami at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 1, 2008
November 2015
Miranda July: 'I'm always disappointing my dad politically'
Interview with the artist focusing on her performance New Society. Published in The Guardian.
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Related: April 2015
Miranda July's quietly amazing show breaks the fourth wall of the web
Review of "New Society" as part of SF International Film Festival. Published in the Guardian.
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October 2015
Art AIDS SF: Tales of the City, 2015 (pdf)
Essay in exhibition catalog, Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum, traveling exhibition
October 2015
In Flames, Then and Now: I AM CUBA
An appreciation of Mikhail Kalatozov's classic propaganda film. Published on Fandor.
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September 2015
The Broad review – first exhibitions have plenty of big hitters but miss the mark
Review of opening of Broad Museum, DTLA, in The Guardian.
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September 2015
Candy flake on the bottom of the pool, and other California dreams (pdf)
On Tamra Seal, published in ProArts 2x2 Solos 2015
July 2015
With Mooney’s sculpture, 1st step is not stepping on art
Review of K.r.m. Mooney's Wattis Institute exhibition in San Francisco Chronicle
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January 2010
Neighborhood Watch: A Microhistory of the Mission School, 2009 (pdf)
Essay in SFMOMA 75th Anniversary publication
Related: April 2002
The Mission School (text only pdf)
Text of the article that named the San Francisco strain of artwork, published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
