Masami Teraoka 'Marilyn Monroe/Bad Year, 1973 (ink and watercolor on paper) (Courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery) The Art Market 2014 San Francisco art fair is arriving this Thursday at the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason and the prospects for this years showing are very good. As part of the buildup for the fair, I have been publishing a small series of slideshows comprise of what is in store for fair goers. Here is the latest of them: I hope to see you at the fair! Art Marke

Al Farrow 'Skull of Santo Guerro III', 2011 (guns, gun parts, bullets, cartridge shells, steel, brass, lead shot, glass, bone, antique textile (mid 16th century Italian silk with gold and silver embroidery)) (Courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery) Art Fair season has arrived in San Francisco and this year there is one main event -- Art Market San Francisco. Ensconced in the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center, this year's fair is set to show some of the latest and greate

Robert Arneson 'Brick Mask', 1975 (ceramic) (Courtesy of Brian Gross Fine Art) It's art fair season again in San Francisco and this year has brought some changes. Where the city had built itself up to hosting three fairs over the last few years, this year has seen them consolidated down to a single event. Returning to the Fort Mason Center, Art Market San Francisco will host over 70 galleries comprised of a good mixture of local, national, and international exhibitors. With t

Nathaniel Price, 'As Built 6', 2013, in on paper (96 x 44 inches) (Image courtesy of Toomey Tourell Gallery) Closing this weekend (so get there fast) is a beautiful show of new works by Nathaniel Price at Toomey Tourell Fine Art. The first major body of work to be seen from Price in almost a decade, Price’s focus on the body as his subject has not wavered in that time. Another element that has not changed in that time is Price’s devotion to drawing as his primary method of cr

This years ArtPadSF fair is as fashionable and hip as always. I arrived late for the press briefing, and so ended up touring the exhibition spaces as the benefit party for the SFMoMA SECA Award began. It was not an auspicious start for the fair, since I stayed through the duration of the benefit, because there was not much of a crowd. I learned later in the evening, when visiting the artMRKT San Francisco fair that their VIP party did not happen either. It is not an good way

It is Art Fair week in San Francisco again and everyone is anticipating a great showing this year. Like last year there will be three venues – artMRKT, ArtPadSF, and the San Francisco Fine Art Fair– with different moods and aesthetics for each. I am looking forward to going to the Concourse Center to see artMRKT and the Phoenix Hotel for ArtPadSF, where the work, to my mind, is more visually interesting and has an edge to it. The San Francisco Fine Art Fair at Fort Mason, if