	Museums John Porcellino at the Cartoon Art Museum Relating To Your Life By Aimee Le Duc (Dec 16, 2005) The Cartoon Art Museum is a rare gem in San Francisco's cultural necklace. It is a traditional looking gallery space set behind a wonderful bookstore, Photo Graphix (formally the Friend's of Photography bookstore.) The museum formally showcases comics and cartoons ranging from familiar animation cells and historical baseball cartoons to underground horror and sex comix throughout the 20th century. Ultimately though it is a quiet space of two long hallways flanked on all sides with a cornucopia of illustrations and words to read. More
	Museums Beyond Real at SF MOMA Surrealist Photography and Sculpture By Aimee Le Duc (Apr 7, 2006) Andre Breton defined surrealism as, "psychic automatism in its pure state, by which on purposes to express, verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern." It's important to carry a working definition of surrealism around with you while navigating through the seemingly never-ending SFMOMA exhibition, Beyond Real: Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections. More
	Museums Tania Candiani at MACLA By Amber Whiteside (Nov 16, 2004) A comprehensive body of Tania Candiani's work fills MACLA's recently renovated and expanded gallery, transforming it into a funhouse of the female form, a futile cycle of binge and purge. Pepto Bismal pink exercise machines, a punching bag swinging like a pendulum in a boxing ring, a looped video of a fitness instructor demonstrating his routine, and so many distorted lines and protuberances of women's bodies come at the viewer with a relentlessness that rivals the commercial world outside. More
	Museums de Young Museum Grand Opening By amy gelbach (Oct 14, 2005) When it started taking shape in Golden Gate Park much debate surrounded the appearance of the new De Young museum's exterior. Some loved it and some loathed it. Whatever your opinion of its giant copper façade, the building is one that does not take full shape until it is entered and explored. More
	Museums Laughing Sal Laughs Last At the Musée Mécanique By amy gelbach (Mar 2, 2003) Musée Mécanique reopened December 20, just in time for tourists lugging soggy presents to duck in out of the downpours and have a little fun. Having relocated from its previous home at the Cliff House, overlooking Ocean Beach, the Musée Mécanique is now a part of Fisherman's Wharf, one component of what is referred to as the 'Pier 45 Walk', which also includes World World II vessels the USS Pampanito, and the Jeremiah O’Brian. More
	Museums Gilbert & George A Gorgeous Retrospective at the de Young By Annie Wyman (Feb 26, 2008) Gilbert & George are two people -- and one artist. Since they met at St. Martin’s School of Art in England in 1967, they’ve rarely produced work as individuals. In fact, they almost never appear alone, choosing instead to present themselves as a single “living sculpture.” In their signature business suits -- celebrating the opening of their exhibition at the de Young on Valentine’s Day, these suits were khaki, shot through with tasteful blue and green threading -- they’ve made a name for themselves as a pair of polite, provocative eccentrics. More
	Museums (un)Common Ground Introductions South By Berin Golonu (Mar 2, 2002) Despite a title like (un)Common Ground, the emerging Bay Area talent included in this group show at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art displays a group mentality. This is not to say that they risk conformity. It's quite the opposite, in fact, because each body of work possesses a style unique unto itself. Rather, the artists compiled by curator Chris Oliveria seem to share a common dialogue, one that, aside from other less obvious factors, may result from their shared identity as Bay Area artists. More
	Museums The Universe Within Internal Dialog By Clifton Lemon (Apr 8, 2005) One can easily imagine the ecstasy of 15th and 16th century artists and anatomists, especially Leonardo da Vinci, had they been able to see what we can now do -- carefully and accurately preserve human bodies, dissected, sliced, and revealed in almost any way possible. Thanks to a technology called plastination, whereby water and lipids in biological tissues are replaced by curable polymers (otherwise known as plastic), cadavers can be transformed into odorless, dry, durable specimens invaluable for anatomical study and analysis. More
	Museums Reconsidered Materials at The Exploratorium By Clifton Lemon (Mar 17, 2006) This quirky show at San Francisco's exuberant Exploratorium is a special exhibition of over ten artworks made from stuff not normally associated with "fine" art, or with art at all for that matter -- things like styrofoam, carbon, duct tape, retreads, recycled plastic, mayonnaise jars and cupric sulfate, for starters. More
	Museums The Three Gorges Project: Paintings by Liu Xiaodong A Dam Shame By Clifton Lemon (May 25, 2006) Are dams evil? Are they necessary? What are their “hidden” costs, and, even if these costs turn out to be much greater than the supposed benefits (as is usually the case), why do we keep building them? The answers to these questions are as varied as the groups that conceive, approve, finance, construct, and operate dams, and the groups that oppose them, fight them actively, or lose their land, livelihoods, and cultures to them. More

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