Gender Performances

07Dec08

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution is a monumental exhibition.  Many excellent and thoughtful reviews have articulated the impact, the astute curation, and the excitement.  The aspect of the exhibition I found particularly striking was the simultaneous meaning and accessibility of the thematic organization.  What could have so easily been dominated by jargon and an [...]

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Community and the Honeybee Ballet

02Aug08

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is typically the first place I visit while in San Francisco. Small to mid-sized contemporary arts institutions often struggle to become part of their communities for myriad reasons. Some problems stem from preconceptions of Modern and Contemporary art and the inacessibility associated with these periods, which [...]

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