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Airport Art: Michael Stutz’s Peplos Kore
By LIZ HAGER Michael Stutz, The Peplos Kore, installed 2005 5.5′x22″18,” shredded cardboard over plywood armature, San Francisco Terminal 1, installed 2005 (photos © Liz Hager) If you fly through SFO...
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No River Runs Through It: Andy Goldsworthy’s “Stone River” at Stanford
By LIZ HAGER Andy Goldsworthy, Stone River, 2002, 128 tons of sandstone, 320 feet (photo ©Andrew Alden) An heir to the legacy of earthwork artists Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer, Goldsworthy...
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Mighty Impermanence in the Presidio—Andy Goldsworthy’s “Spire”
In medieval times, a spire announced from afar the location of a church and, more important, its connection to heaven. It’s not hard to grasp the ecclesiastical association in Andy Goldsworthy’s new...
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San Francisco’s Upper Crust
By LIZ HAGER All photos in this post—Patrick Dougherty, Upper Crust, 2009, willow branches, Joseph L. Alioto Performing Arts Piazza, San Francisco (photos ©Liz Hager). In the dead of a West Coast...
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Bay Area FAV—George Rickey at the Main Library
By LIZ HAGER We’ve hunkered down into an indeterminately long recession. We’re tightening our belts, in the process shifting our discretionary dollars to less expensive entertainment options or...
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Dark Day Picks
On Mondays Venetian Red celebrates the day of the week when galleries and museums are closed. Every Monday we highlight a few current exhibitions, new installations, or art world tidbits. Get a jump on...
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Dark Day Picks
On Mondays Venetian Red celebrates the day of the week when most galleries and museums are traditionally closed. Every Monday we highlight a few current exhibitions, new installations, or art world...
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Venetian Red Notebook: Allen Tupper True, Painter of the American West
by Christine Cariati Allen Tupper True, Self-Portrait, undated Photo courtesy Anne True Colorado artist Allen Tupper True (1881-1955) was a muralist, easel painter and illustrator. His paintings have a...
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Venetian Red Salutes the Decade
We thought a Venetian Red salute to a decade of art would be a fitting subject for a final post in 2009. Admittedly, we weren’t interested in throwing up an amalgamation of critically-lauded...
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Notes from the Studio: The Iconic Face of Liberty
by Christine Cariati This striking black and white picture, shot by an unknown photographer, is the face of the Statue of Liberty. It was taken in 1885 when the statue was uncrated and waiting to be...
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Bright Lights, Big(ger) City: Bay Lights Goes Live
By LIZ HAGER © Liz Hager, 2013. All Rights Reserved. Last night I gathered with a few friends at the Ferry Building on the patio outside Boulette’s Larder, to witness the official lighting of the Leo...
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