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2013 Stories by Jonathan Curiel

• The Other 'Burbs: Michael Jang's Family Photos Defy the Brady Bunch

  published May 15, 2013

  In the 1970s, the Bay Area was 86 percent white and just four percent Asian, according to U.S. Census data. Asian faces were rarely in visual... More >>

• Off the Farm: Globe-Hopping Street Artist Aryz Gifts the City With a Five-Story Canvas and a Few Small Ones

  published May 15, 2013

  On a hot Saturday afternoon, the celebrated street artist Aryz is perched 100 feet above Polk and Eddy streets as he paints a farm girl onto a... More >>

• Name Recognition: Eleanor Coppola's Time in Hotels Inspires Her Latest Work

  published May 1, 2013

  "Coppola." In cinema, the name inspires a million associations — everything from Apocalypse Now and a fat Marlon Brando to Lost... More >>

• New Western Vistas

  published March 20, 2013

  To see Amy Feldman’s new art is to be immersed in a world of seemingly primitive letters. Imperfect triangles dance in rhythm on one... More >>

• Know Your Street Art: Untitled Bunnies, Corner of Haight & Laguna

  published April 17, 2013

  Jeremy Fish says his bunny sculpture — the one that's stood for two years at the southwest corner of Haight and Laguna streets — is... More >>

• Christian Marclay's "The Clock" is the World's Most Elaborate Timepiece

  published April 17, 2013

  At 2:15 a.m. on a recent Friday, on the fourth floor of SFMOMA, a smattering of art-goers snoozed, lying prone on soft couches after watching a... More >>

• Violent Images

  published March 27, 2013

  There are artists who hit you over the head with the subject of race (see the "Racism Still Exists" posters that popped up recently in New York),... More >>

• Traveling Exhibits: Will Anyone Find the New Design Museum?

  published April 3, 2013

  During San Francisco's first dot-com boom, the Ansel Adams Center, an acclaimed photography space on Fourth Street between Howard and Folsom,... More >>

• Art Colonist

  published March 13, 2013

  In 2003, Justin Giarla took a chance on a rough part of the Tenderloin -- Larkin near Geary -- and opened an art gallery that specialized in... More >>

• Know Your Street Art: "Rush Hour," Market at Seventh St.

  published March 20, 2013

  During the morning and evening commutes along Market Street, thousands of people pass by a mural between Seventh and Eighth that features a... More >>

• Double Exposure: Shows of Garry Winogrand and Gordon Parks

  published March 20, 2013

  The middle-aged woman was drunk in public, and as she staggered around the streets of New York during daylight hours — leaning on a man... More >>

• Total Coverage: Revealing the Muslim World at the de Young

  published February 20, 2013

  On a recent Sunday afternoon, a docent at the de Young Museum strode into the exhibit hall for "Eye Level in Iraq," made a sharp left, then... More >>

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  Masterminds 2013: Ten Future Bay Area Art Icons

  published February 6, 2013

  The Bay Area has long been one of America's artistic hubs. For two... More >>

• Photo Negative: Two Exhibits Reconsider Historic Images

  published January 23, 2013

  From a distance, Amy Trachtenberg's Stripes/Sutras looks like marbled paper — the kind with luminous swirls that you'd find inside... More >>

• "Melting Away": Camille Seaman Documents a Changing World

  published January 9, 2013

  For 14 years, Bay Area photographer Camille Seaman has traveled to the earth's most remote expanses of ice, and in that time — through... More >>