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Elliott Sky Case on October 20, 2021
In the center of the triptych a family poses alongside a Polaroid and a huge, dark bust of a man’s head. A little boy stands proudly between his sitting relatives, two handprints floating above his head—his father’s larger hand encircling the boy’s own.
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Amani Hamed on September 29, 2021
This Friday, after a brief closure, a memorial gallery dedicated to the late photographer David Pace will reopen at San Jose’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Truly a man who contained artistic multitudes, Pace worked across decades, beginning from the moment he was gifted a Brownie Hawkeye camera for his eighth birthday in…
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C.J. Prusi on September 11, 2019
Zach Leary, son of pioneering psychonaut Timothy Leary, is the host of “The MAPS Podcast” as well as “It’s All Happening with Zach Leary.” James Fadiman is an author and psychedelic researcher. During the Talking Art: Psychedelic Medicine event, the pair will discuss microdosing psychedelics—such as psilocybin and LSD—and the potential benefits…
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Wallace Baine on February 20, 2019
Bay Area artist Sofie Ramos really loves familiar household objects—pillows, chairs, stools, whatever. But she also likes to reimagine the context of such things in her installations. In STUFF(ed), she creates walk-in art spaces in which bold colors bleed and bounce all over the place, and violate the natural boundaries between wall,…
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Nick Veronin on January 9, 2019
Science. It really is a compelling discipline—if only you can wrap your mind around the concepts. That’s where art comes in. Two exhibits at the intersection of art and science—Primordial Soup, an immersive installation inspired by marine microbiology, and Tender Exchanges, which presents sculptural representations of neural networks and tree roots—are currently…
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Stephen Perez on March 1, 2018
As part of March’s ICA Live!, the downtown modern art gallery hosts a performance by Lux Interna—a group that goes beyond the concept of alternative country by gathering the most vibrant parts of traditional folk music and distilling them into a truly haunting, American Gothic experience. With their dark guitar riffs and…
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