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January 1, 2022
Imagination on Fire
The Bay Area’s preeminent industrial arts organization
A lifetime ago, when I was young and living in downtown Berkeley, I became aware of an interesting new metal-arts school in the warehouse district on the west end of town....
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January 1, 2022
The Art of Curation
BAMPFA’s new Chief Curator Christina Yang
Anchored for a mere 18 days in her position as the newly-appointed chief curator at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Christina Yang offers weighty resistance.
During a lively, 50-minute phone...
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October 20, 2021
Comic Relief
Oakland’s ABO Comix Publishes Art By and For Queer Prisoners
Originally Published Sep. 8, 2020
“Every time I go to the post office, it's almost like Christmas morning,” Casper Cendre tells me, describing a mountain of envelopes decorated with...
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February 5, 2021
Mural, Mural on the Wall: A self-guided tour of Oakland’s murals
The whole city of Oakland is a canvas. Over 1,000 murals can be found throughout the city, covering once-empty walls in explosions of color. Street art is inherently radical, and many of Oakland’s murals deal with themes...
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October 1, 2020
Photography as Social Activism: OMCA reveals digital archive of Dorothea Lange’s photos
American photographer Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” is widely seen as a defining portrait of the Great Depression; the woman it depicts, and her children, are etched into our collective image of that challenging time in American history....
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October 1, 2020
Comic Relief: Oakland’s ABO Comix publishes art by and for queer prisoners
“Every time I go to the post office, it’s almost like Christmas morning,” Casper Cendre tells me, describing a mountain of envelopes decorated with beautiful drawings sent to him from prisons all over the U.S.
Cendre is the...
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September 22, 2020
Joel Bernstein sees the light
Acclaimed rock ’n’ roll photographer and longtime Rockridge resident Joel Bernstein was still a teen when he asked Neil Young if he could play with Young’s new mother-of-pearl-inlaid Martin D-45 backstage. After a few minutes, when Young...