New images from an old master

New images from an old master

SFMOMA's "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century" offers an education in photo history and what it takes to create lasting pictures.

From memory

From memory

After losing his short-term memory, artist James Sterling Pitt says his art practice has helped him make sense of his situation.

'Organized bedlam'

'Organized bedlam'

Megan Whitmarsh's work dives headfirst, paintbrushes and stitchery needles in hand, into a messy, captivating, color-wheel chaos of pop.

A labor of love

A labor of love

"Knock Knock" not only features work from bright artists in the U.S. but also represents a cultural exchange between S.F. and Sweden.

Art Features

A more permanent exhibition

Catherine Wagner's photographs of Moscone Center will be etched into the granite walls of the forthcoming Central Subway.

A museum to watch

The vastly expanded Crocker Art Museum has tripled its space to 170,000 square feet, just in time to mark its 125th year.

Pride, activism, art

Galeria de la Raza's 40-year retrospective exhibit is designed around concepts that encapsulate Latino art over the years.

Uncharted waters in new home

Pawel Kruk's "Winning the Water: Swimmer as Hero, 2010" is part of "Transplanted" at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

Japanese art, then and now

The Berkeley Art Museum's "Flowers of the Four Seasons" brings a generous selection of the Clark Center's holdings to a Bay Area audience for the first time.

Flowers that sing

 Artist Tim Roseborough's "Singing Garden" is an interactive water garden in which the plants respond to the voice.

Art Reviews

'Exposed' at SFMOMA

A generational fissure will undoubtedly run through audience responses to the engrossing exhibition "Exposed."

Collage gone overboard

Almost everything in Judy Pfaff's "Tivoli Gardens" makes a shabby-chic impression.

Breakthrough moments

"Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond" makes a less tidy, less pretty package than "Birth of Impressionism."
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