Ever wonder what-is-up with public art? Take this one, for example on the Oakland/Berkeley border:

The artists are Steve Gillman and Katherine Keefer. In 2005 the City of Berkeley (with the help of the county) sported a $5,000 grant for The South Berkeley Gateway Project, and approved this public sculpture at the border of Oakland and Berkeley that reads HERE (on the Berkeley side) and THERE (on the Oakland side). “Whimsical”, they called it.

There’s this other blogger in the East Bay that’s walking all the borders… Anyway, as this blogger noticed, it’s the only North/South-Berkeley/Oakland Border with this severe a demarcation. It’s also not only just the Berkeley/Oakland border, it’s the Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville border Continue reading...

I’ll start by chiming in on the response to that thing in the East Bay Express. There have been so many art spaces that have come and go for a myriad of reasons, all complicated I’m sure. That’s going to keep happening whether the economy is good or not. Some stuff you can blame on a shitty economy, but her whole “forecast” or whatever just isn’t valid.

One of things that rarely gets considered (not just in her piece but across the board) is a differentiation between art dealer and exhibition space. If an art writer can make that distinction even in his/her own mind, the readers would be getting a much different tone. But when you equate “gallery” with “dealer”, it doesn’t matter how Continue reading...