Christian Marclay in San Francisco: Two separate exhibitions showcase the contemporary visual artist’s keen eye and ear

Christian Marclay in San Francisco


On a sunny afternoon in San Francisco, sitting in a dark room watching Christian Marclay’s masterpiece, “The Clock,” provokes a certain anxiety about the passage of time, yet at…

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Guns and Ecstasy by Scott Hove: Violence, paranoia and buttercream frosting define the artist’s latest solo show

Guns and Ecstasy by Scott Hove


Between wedding cakes bursting with fangs and icing-piped assault rifles, it’s not hard to see why the art of Scott Hove has gained such a strong following. A new exhibition and installation at recordOutboundLink(this,…

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Garry Winogrand at SFMOMA: The iconic American photographer’s first retrospective in 25 years

Garry Winogrand at SFMOMA


Garry Winogrand’s first retrospective in 25 years at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is also the first exhibition to examine…

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The Bay Lights Turn On: Leo Villareal’s brilliant bridge concept becomes a reality in the world’s largest light installation with 25,000 LEDs

The Bay Lights Turn On

When we last checked in with Leo Villareal one year ago, he had just proposed The Bay Lights, an ambitious project aimed at blanketing San Francisco’s Bay Bridge with 25,000 outward-facing LEDs for a light show of epic proportions. Like many concepts, the idea was almost too fantastical to…

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Halo Zero: San Francisco’s Rickshaw Bagworks teams up with Halo Belt Company for an illuminated messenger bag

Halo Zero

As an avenue for sharing invention Kickstarter has helped introduce a range of safety-oriented cycling innovations to market, the most recent being the Halo Zero, an illuminated messenger bag developed in collaboration between Kickstarter-funded Halo Belt Company and Rickshaw Bagworks. The bag combines Halo’s LED fiber optic bands with…

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Miriam Böhm: Sculpture and photography come together through repetition and illusion

Miriam Böhm

Berlin-based artist Miriam Böhm’s photographs present compelling optical illusions made through a series of complex physical arrangements in the studio. Individually photographed and printed, these physical objects are then mounted back into the original arrangement—in many ways similar to the late work of the Cubist movement—starting a repetitive process…

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Silent Manifesto: Fashion soldiers hit the streets of San Francisco in a march celebrating Maison Martin Margiela at H&M

Silent Manifesto

Advertorial content: Clad in sterile white aprons, 300 fashion soldiers took to the streets of San Francisco last weekend to march on behalf of the upcoming collaboration between Maison Martin Margiela and H&M. The Silent Manifesto speaks to Margiela’s notorious anonymity, which allows the clothing to remain the main message,…

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Afton Love: Beeswax and graphite murals by a Bay Area artist

Afton Love

Bay Area native Afton Love renders beeswax on her stove, preferring to make her own in her San Francisco-based studio. In addition to providing a sealant for Love’s graphite paintings, the beeswax blurs her line work to make it look soft and organic. Beneath the waxy surface, Love’s large-scale…

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Poster II, The Hustler

Designer Joey Roth breaks down the art of making things happen

Poster II, The Hustler

According to multidisciplinary designer Joey Roth, a hustler is someone who creates something from inspiration, mediated by an uncompromising picture of reality, then launches it with precision into the world. To illustrate this archetype and the processes behind it, Roth’s new letterpress poster upacks the “Hustler” column from his…

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Ocho Candy

Resourceful dads come up with crowd-pleasing organic chocolate bars

Ocho Candy

Certainly, there’s sugar everywhere. You may have a hankering for the traditional, mass-produced Mars bars and bionic sours on every corner, or wish to hold out for a more sophisticated free-trade 70% cacao gourmet morsel with enough antioxidants to be classified as a superfood. What about a little bit…

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