As the climate crisis escalates and the sixth mass extinction approaches, we are thinking through all the things that are coming to an end, but also business-as-usual behaviors being called to end.
Feature-length articles and thematic programming exploring a chosen focus related to visual culture from a wide range of angles.
In-depth considerations of artists' works through podcasts, profiles, reviews, opinion pieces, and columns organized around a central subject, offering fresh perspectives from West Coast writers.
Renowned artists, performers, writers, educators, and curators working contribute enriching and critical analysis of exhibitions and events on the West Coast.
Find out what's on view and what events you can't miss! Our events calendar highlights what's coming up and what Picks our editors have highlighted as noteworthy.
by Johanna Hedva
Sunn O))) refuses the normative tenets of music, they refuse rhythm, lyrics, words, language. Acutely, dangerously, fugitively, they refuse time itself.
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by Anuradha Vikram
The 2019 Venice Biennale feels like the end of everything: the end of art tourism, the end of vacations, the end of the beach and the climate of pleasure.
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by Tavia Nyong’o
An investigation of the speculative fiction of Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand and his intergalactic visions of post-apocalyptic race, gender, and sexuality.
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By Karen Cheung
By J.Z. Wyckoff
By Jayna Swartzman-Brosky
by Vivian Sming
What does it mean to no longer be able to speak, whether due to the disappearance of one’s language, or due to the erosion of public discourse in today’s atmosphere?
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by Maddie Klett
Brian Bartz places plants in the middle of technological systems to suggest that the politics of obfuscation are in plain sight.
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By Laurel V. McLaughlin
By Sebastian Zinn
by Art Practical Editors
Jakeya Caruthers and Xandra Ibarra reminisce in the Growlery’s kitchen to commemorate the many conversations had in each other's kitchens.
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by Art Practical Editors
Brontez Purnell and Sophia Wang discuss communities have shaped their practices, and how the two work together through dance and movement.
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by Art Practical Editors
Mik Gaspay and Kija Lucas share an intimate conversation about their experiences growing up in Palo Alto, and the paths that led them to becoming Bay Area-based artists.
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by Art Practical Editors
Emory Douglas sits down with the California College of the Arts (CCA) Students of Color Coalition in a roundtable conversation.
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by Weston Teruya
Weston Teruya speaks with artist Maya Stovall about her interrogations in ethnographic traditions and the expectations of artists in public practice.
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by Leora Fridman
Keith Hennessy’s de(composition) workshops invite erosion of power systems and anticipate failure in both posture and in politics.
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By tamara suarez porras
By Kelly Kirkland
by Tina Takemoto
Filmmaker & CCA Professor, Tina Takemoto, gives us an intimate portrait of the Center for Asian American Media through her personal memories and encounters as an early filmmaker.
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by Dorothy R. Santos
Dorothy R. Santos speaks with Jenny Odell about exercises in attention, space for refusal, bonding over our experience of an Ellsworth Kelly painting at the SFMOMA, and much more.
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