February 2023, Oakland Curator: Jan Watten Diaspora is a vivid word. We sense it in two ways. Saying it feels like saying “disperse.” At...

Results, Automagically We can be surprised only so much to find out that encyclopedias of everything seem now to be available. Our common...

Project overview Critiquing a specific legacy archetype of maleness, the Not Male Show extends beyond feminism to a more inclusive...

Arriving After turning twice up the narrow stairway, a type exactly halfway between rustic and industrial chic, one enters the Gray Loft...

Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., rages on in the world of visual art, it’s current ability to automatically compose being the new apex...

Ghost Busters The experience of time’s passage takes place only due to the perception of change, and if the noticeable events don’t...

One of the more bizarre things that occurred in the past but that still persists is the phrase “art and photography”. For simplicity’s...

Oakland, CA – The Black Lives Matter movement brought Oakland back into the political foreground in a way not felt since the Women’s...

Contents: READING THE IMAGE. THE WORK DONE IN THE IMAGE. THE WORK DONE BY THE IMAGE. DESIGNING THE IMAGE. THE VIEWER AT WORK. THE WORK OF...

Why do we think that we can know with confidence when something is or is not an "art" work? What is the unifying idea underlying our...

Why do we bother to refer to certain photographs as "still" pictures when the individual picture is by definition a stationary object? I....

The popular allure of street photography rarely wanes, regardless of time or place. Much of its power to influence audiences rides on the...

Elitism in art is the enemy of my thinking, doing, and holding of art. It tries in advance to dictate what matters. We don't allow that here