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October 29, 2017 · Wanderlust

Capitola Wharf: What Sharka Knows

Capitola Wharf: What Sharka Knows

The thing about watching a dog run, really run, is it strips away all the pretense we wrap ourselves in. No existential dread, no performance anxiety, just pure kinetic joy translated into muscle and breath. Sharka doesn’t give a shit about my Instagram feed or my quarterly earnings report for the board. She’s a four-legged […]

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Gold Leaf and Bronze, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Museum Date
October 16, 2017 · The City

Gold Leaf and Bronze, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Museum Date

Museums are incredible places to fall in love. Or maybe just to realize you already have. Lindsey and I are at the Legion of Honor, standing in front of Klimt and Rodin, two guys who understood that the body is both temple and ruin, that desire is inseparable from decay, that gold leaf can’t hide […]

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Aleta Hayes: Djerassi Resident Artists Program
October 8, 2017 · Industries

Aleta Hayes: Djerassi Resident Artists Program

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while Marx, (Groucho) The whole fucking premise is so simple it hurts: you take artists, real ones, not the kind pumping out content for the algorithm gods, and you put them somewhere beautiful and remote and you say, “Here. No deadlines. No […]

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September 26, 2017 · Industries

37 Hours, Barefoot, No Bullshit: Raegan Truax’s Citation

If you want to understand what Raegan Truax is doing, you’ve got to throw out everything you think you know about performance art. Forget the pretentious gallery openings, the wine sipping theorists nodding knowingly at shit they don’t understand. This is something else entirely. 37 hours. Thirty. Seven…  Barefoot. No breaks. No food. No clock. […]

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37 Hours, Barefoot, No Bullshit: Raegan Truax’s Citation
Car Wash Blues
August 25, 2017 · Adventure

Car Wash Blues

I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. Roland Barthes, The New Citroën, 1957 Rolling […]

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August 10, 2017 · Engineering

Sophocles Savage Blasts at The Wave Organ

Sophocles Savage Blasts at The Wave Organ

The Fragment he blows no longer on small pipes, but with savage blasts, without a mouthpiece. Three lines of Sophocles, three lousy lines that survived when 96 percent of his work got swallowed by time. This fragment doesn’t want to be understood. It wants to be encountered. So I picked the Wave Organ, this broken-ass […]

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Ryan Tacata’s Lolas
July 22, 2017 · Industries

Ryan Tacata’s Lolas

Performed at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco Lolas was a performance installation by Ryan Tacata that explored notions of cultural assimilation and resistance through one lola’s garden, an assemblage of found materials, religious icons and constructed identities.

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