Regina Marler ‘Joan Doesn’t Give a Damn’ The San Francisco painter Joan Brown snubbed success at every turn. March 9, 2023
Lucy Ives A Line that Wants to Speak The Beat artist Rick Barton, a fixture of the San Francisco café scene, filled notebooks with expressive line drawings that are only now getting their due. July 12, 2022
Anastasia Edel The Big Smoke It is hard not to think of California’s wildfire plight as a metaphor for America’s decline, though hopelessness is not the Californian way. September 17, 2020
May Jeong Ah Toy, Pioneering Prostitute of Gold Rush California Working out of a shack that was four feet wide and six feet deep, Ah Toy began offering her services to miners, becoming the first recorded Chinese prostitute in the new world. June 19, 2020
Michele H. Bogart The Problem with Canceling the Arnautoff Murals “As I see it,” wrote Arnautoff in 1935, “the artist is a critic of society.” That critical stance underpinned The Life of George Washington and much the artists’s public work. September 16, 2019
Elizabeth Gumport The Long Exposure of Francesca Woodman Given that her complete catalogue is composed almost entirely of work she produced as a student, the posthumous critical esteem for American photographer Francesca Woodman is astonishing. January 24, 2011