17 Search Results for “berkeley art center”

  • Part of Jul 2012 by

    Irving Blum’s Ferus Gallery Announcements (and Interview with Dave Hickey)

    Tonight, July 30th at 6:30 SITE Santa Fe presents critic Dave Hickey interviewing Irving Blum. I was going online to look for Ferus Gallery documentation, as well as a backstory to the art dealer who changed everything (Blum). I arrived via Archives of American Art digitized collections at these terrific examples of the invitations to Blum’s shows, which the Guerrilla Girls might assert were not so terrific based on the More …

  • Part of Jun 2012 by

    Playing with Fire: Charles Ross at Gerald Peters Gallery

    As if playing at demigod status, Charles Ross’s show at Gerald Peters Gallery, Solar Burns, is a collection of wooden planks that looks like they’ve burned in some boisterous game of Greek mythology.  Ross uses a large lens to burn the path of the sun into each piece of wood and each wooden center bears a spot of smoldered wood that gapes open like an exposed wound.  Far from revealing More …

  • Part of Apr 2012 by

    Philip Glass and Jon Gibson Perform at Dwan Light Sanctuary

    The maxim holds true: There is no substitute for experience. And when it comes to modern music the experience can be transformative, as well as (at other times) difficult, enrapturing, sometimes irritating, and raising an expectation that somehow, in your hard-backed chair, one day if not today, you might be confounded by dissonance. It was all rapture on April 5, a Thursday at 3 p.m., with the light scudding from More …

  • Part of Aug 2011 by

    SoFa West In Year Three: The “New Paradigm” Here To Stay

    Fairs are art dealings’ “new paradigm.” So 30-year veteran Chicago dealer Douglas Dawson told me at SoFa West Thursday, voicing a sentiment I heard through more than a dozen dealer interviews at the fair. “Hoping to identify new collectors is exactly why we’re here. We consider it advertising,” Dawson said of his appearance at SoFa West. By Saturday afternoon, one sale had been achieved at Dawson’s booth: a $9500 (label More …

  • Part of Dec 2009 by

    Snagged Ensnares Human Behavior

    In a landscape architecture show recently closed at UTEP, Snagged underscores the grim cultural and aesthetic repercussions of an issue as pressing to inhabitants of Ohios verdant plains as to those accustomed to New Mexicos flinty austerity: each day the average American expends roughly 100 gallons of water. Land Arts key practitioners — including Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer and James Turrell — pioneered an art form that outsized the More …