Yong Sin @ Andrewshire

Yong Sin has rapidly become one of my favourite people in the whole world. Her complete and total dedication to her work, coupled with her absolutely raw and uncompromising nature impresses the hell out of me and endears me to her. Her new show at Andrewshire opened last Saturday, and the work is totally [...]

Installing Dark Matter of Fact

Cross-posted from the AGCC blog. This is what I’ve been up to – Christine’s show looks just beautiful.

Christine Nguyen has been up at Angels Gate, installing Dark Matter of Fact. Above, that’s her installing part of her wall piece, a large, site-specific installation that will be on display in the same room [...]

Is This the Future of MOCA?

The Geffen’s current existence as empty, cavernous, unused space continues (a little backstory here). Last Thursday evening, Capcom rented the shuttered Geffen Contemporary to showcase their upcoming game Street Fighter IV (which better be awesome, dammit!). About a gazillion joystick rocking dudes and bros were there, some camped out hours in advance, in [...]

More Actual Political Art

Watching the Shepard Fairey “HOPE poster” tempest in a teapot that’s been the inflating the blogosphere makes one think about two things, the legitimacy of street art in an age of merchandising and the role of art in politics. So I guess political art is on everyone’s mind, especially after almost a decade of [...]

Ton of Evidence

Puzzling Evidence, definitely a high priest of high culture and high strangeness, has posted a ton of videos to YouTube, covering almost three decades of actions, performances and happenings, primarily in the Bay Area. (via Laughing Squid).

Above – Mongoloid, SF based DEVO cover band.  Far better than actual DEVO at this point.

Above [...]