On sleep and Surrealistic pillows — Oropallo dives into the unconscious
Painting can keep the idea and even the force of art tradition alive. So a contemporary painter's conspicuous break with tradition, even with "the tradition of the new," as Harold Rosenberg called late modernism, can stir anxiety about what will get lost in…
Kenneth Baker

Oakland Museum appoints new head
The Oakland Museum of California has appointed Lori Fogarty executive director. She will take up the position in March, replacing Dennis Power, who resigned in August 2005. Since 2001 Fogarty, 43, has directed the Bay Area Discovery Museum in…
Kenneth Baker

2005 IN REVIEW / Art
HIGH: "Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters of 18th Century Kyoto" Nothing beat the quality and rarity of the artworks and the grace of their presentation in the current show (through Feb. 26) at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The things on…
Kenneth Baker

An Appreciation: Farewell to a'Genie'and a Style That Dazzled
You could say that an era died with Fayard Nicholas, the surviving member of a dazzling acrobatic tap duo that starred in movie musicals of the 1930's and 40's.
JENNIFER DUNNING

TV Review|'Flight 93': On a Doomed 9/11 Flight, Heroes Are Humans, Too
This made-for-television movie, about the final hours of the passengers aboard the fourth airplane hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, is gripping from the very first scene.
ALESSANDRA STANLEY

Memoir Becomes Novel, Secret Remains Secret
At a time when the publishing business is struggling with the meaning of truth and memoir, Martha Sherrill is in a way the anti-James Frey.
EDWARD WYATT

Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day
An awards ceremony for an essay contest on the subject of"To Kill a Mockingbird"drew Harper Lee, one of the most reclusive writers in the history of American letters.
GINIA BELLAFANTE

REVIEW / Read all about it — old news takes on new life in bronze
In sculpture of recent decades, social critique has reared its perishable head seldom, or mostly in disguise. Count the work of Chinese-born sculptor Wang Du, on view at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a conspicuous exception. I thought of John…
Kenneth Baker

On sleep and Surrealistic pillows — Oropallo dives into the unconscious
Painting can keep the idea and even the force of art tradition alive. So a contemporary painter's conspicuous break with tradition, even with "the tradition of the new," as Harold Rosenberg called late modernism, can stir anxiety about what will get lost in…
Kenneth Baker

SFMOMA's new acquisitions on view — one from the inside
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has purchased two important contemporary artworks, extending a strong run of collection building that, though it has slowed, stretches back a decade. The museum characteristically refuses to discuss the cost of the…
Kenneth Baker

Teens get first brush with artistic expression in exhibition sponsored by S.F. Art Institute
Lingli Wang hopes to be a rock 'n' roll drummer. Bryce Ballinger-Sarabia loves to skydive and watch horror movies. Michelle Wilens enjoys hiking and camping. These teens and a group of other youth from the Mission and city of Richmond all have diverse…
Leba Hertz

People: Joaquin Phoenix, Meg Ryan, Daniel Barenboim
Joaquin Phoenix's car overturned on a Los Angeles canyon road and collided with another vehicle after his brakes went out, but there were no reports of injury, the police said.

Ice sculptures inspire wintry awe
By TBT staff JELGAVA - Alongside negative 20 degree arctic winds, January has another icy gift in store for Latvia.

A heavy haul in bronze sculpture
LONDON The stolen works include the enormous - a hulking 2-ton sculpture by Henry Moore - and the comparatively modest - an almost 1-meter-long dung beetle by the artist Wendy Taylor.

Article: Science Museum Announces GBP1 Million Partnership With Nintendo
The Science Museum has agreed a four-year sponsorship deal with computer games manufacturer Nintendo. Science Museum.

Original and funny pongo art.

Julian Beever has made pavement drawings for over ten years. He has worked in the U.K., Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany, the USA and Australia.

The pavement drawings have included both renderings of old masters plus a wealth of original inventive pieces of work.