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Featured on hyperallergic, 2016/05/25

John Waters Curates a Show of Low-Tech Art in Silicon Valley

I have always wanted to knock something over in a museum or art gallery. Not because there are particular works of art that I feel merit unceremonious destruction (although there definitely are), but simply because it’s the Wrong Thing To Do, and therefore holds a dark allure, like kicking your shoes off a dock and watching them sink, or jumping onto the subway tracks, or peeing on your boss’s desk.(excerpt from text)

Featured on SFGATE, 2016年5月25日

Lucinda Barnes retiring as Berkeley Art Museum curator

The accomplished and widely respected curator Lucinda Barnes will retire from her position as chief curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on June 29. She will spend her final days at the museum preparing a major exhibition of the work of the painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), opening in Germany this fall.(Excerpt from the text)

Featured on The Mercury News, May 25, 2016

Pace opens gallery in Palo Alto with work by James Turrell

Pace Gallery opened in Palo Alto on April 27 with an inaugural exhibition of recent work by James Turrell, who has gained super-nova status by employing science to create light-and-space environments. Turrell is famous for his installations of undifferentiated, homogeneous light that obscures even as it illuminates. The standout piece in the show fills one room with slowly shifting colors, and you must experience it to appreciate its otherworldly quality.(Excerpt from the text)

Featured on BroadWayWorld.com, 2016/05/23

Mori Art Museum to Present THE UNIVERSE AND ART Exhibit, 7/30

Mori Art Museum is proud to present "The Universe and Art: Princess Kaguya, Leonardo da Vinci, teamLab" from Saturday, July 30, 2016 to Monday, January 9, 2017. Our universe is of perennial interest, appearing in art all around the world as an object of worship and study over the centuries, and spawning countless stories. "The Universe and Art," in just one exhibition, will offer a diverse selection of around 200 items from across the globe and down the centuries, in multiple genres, from meteorites and fossils to historic astronomical material by Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei; mandalas; Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) which we may call Japan's oldest sci-fi novel; installations by contemporary artists, and the latest from the frontline of space development. (excerpt from text)