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at L’Espace Electra, an exhibition space funded by Electricite de France (yes, the electric company!) Melies, Magic and Cinema, a wonderful little show about the groundbreaking early cinema experiments of Georges Melies, best known for his film, Voyage dans la lune. The show runs through the end of August.

- Ella Delaney [Wednesday, June 12th, 2002]

Another departure for Harvard. Even the development of a new Renzo Piano museum on the Charles couldn’t keep director Jim Cuno there, as he takes the helm at the University of London’s Courtauld Institute of Art.

- Tucker Nichols [Wednesday, June 12th, 2002]

The weather is fabulous and so is the food and drink. Checked out Palais de Tokyo yesterday, a huge, raw, industrial space right next to Musee de Modern Art in a tony section of town. San Francisco badly needs such a space - not only for the adventurous work on view but the successful attempt to attract a hip, twenty-something crowd that hangs out in a cafe that serves terrific, reasonably priced food - and all to a soundtrack of the latest grooves echoing through the space. More on the shows on view there later.

- Ella Delaney [Sunday, June 2nd, 2002]

two gorgeous paintings on mulberry paper by Yun-Fei Ji at Post Gallery; stunning Afghan rugs from the Soviet invasion featuring motifs of tanks, AK-47s, landmines and helicopters at DiRT Gallery; Polly Apfelbaum’s dizzying floor installation of dyed velvet at Karyn Lovegrove; John Coplans’ very naked fingers at ACE; a delightfully ambitious show of Chinese antiquities and contemporary Western art at ACME, featuring a dreamy Uta Barth photo above a lacquered wine table; and the mesmerizing photos-as-objects of Masao Yamamato at Craig Krull Gallery. Get to it.

- Tucker Nichols [Monday, May 13th, 2002]

His cathedral is nearing completion and Barcelona’s fantastic architect is on the fast track for beatification.

- Meredith Tromble [Wednesday, April 10th, 2002]

and an engaging, if semi-articulate, manner. The LA-based artist, known for her abstractions based on urban stains, spoke at CCAC last night. She showed kick-ass paintings from her current exhibition at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery and works in progress including a 25,000 square foot drawing of stains on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Most entertaining was her performance of the works’ titles, “found” sounds like fsstCK. Most mysterious was her explanation of her working process. Most shocking was her revelation that her grandmother’s unfound body dissolved into a stain on her sheets. By the close of the talk, Calame made a convincing case for her obsession with irregular blotches.

- Meredith Tromble [Wednesday, March 27th, 2002]

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