The Artist’s World,at the CCAC Institute, delivers a deliciously nasty take on contemporary artists’ lives, laced with self-loathing, acrid humor, and in-jokes. If you get it, you’ll like it.
Highlights of “First Thursday” gallery openings in San Francisco
Lisa Kokin’s photo webs at Catharine Clark Gallery and Adaline Kent’s sculptures at 871 Fine Arts. Kent, an innovative modernist in the 1940s, died young in a car crash. Since then her work has been closely held by her family; see this wonderful work before it disappears into private collections.
After you’ve seen the missile strikes and grown weary of the endless, speculative punditry , visit Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting) for the skinny.
Painter/entrepreneur Thomas Kinkade presents the latest chapter in America’s ongoing quest for a version of small town America that never really existed in the first place.
Wise and truthful words from Salman Rushdie.
this is not art and electrofringe in newcastle, australia
see http://www.thisisnotart.org and http://www.electrofringe.org for more
also
video star (artists using video) currently being held in wellington, new zealand
keynote by deleuze scholar and media theorist brian massumi
and special lecture by critic, curator and videomaker John DiStephano
see http://videostar.co.nz for more