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  • The First Year

    The First Year

    by Patricia Maloney

    In truth, the story of Art Practical to date has been one of the people involved: their investment in the project, the ownership they’ve taken, the efforts they’ve made, the protests they’ve voiced, and the work they’ve produced. I have asked some very smart and talented people for their time, and then I asked them for more. It is telling of their generosity that they have said yes again and again.
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  • Year in Review: Editors’ Choice

    Year in Review: Editors’ Choice

    by Victoria Gannon, Catherine McChrystal, Megan McMillan, Morgan Peirce, Matthew Harrison Tedford

    Art Practical’s editors see their role as one of collaboration with our writers: encouraging them to find new modes of description and criticism and further define their voice. In the process, they spend a lot of time reading. What follows are their reflections on what makes Art Practical representative of the Bay Area. Each has highlighted a distinct strength of the site’s content: the highly individual voices; the attentiveness the writers pay to the works on view; the sense of community that emerges; and the prevailing concern with the broader social impact of art.
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