Art Practical is the home of three chroniclers of San Francisco Bay Area contemporary art and visual culture: Shotgun Review, Happenstand, and Talking Cure quarterly. The site represents the current shifting landscape of arts journalism by serving as a juncture for critical dialogue rather than a proprietor of it. In creating the coalition of three partner organizations, Art Practical does not condense information. Instead, it generates pathways of investigation.
Art Practical is emblematic of the collective and collaborative spirit of the wide-ranging Bay Area visual arts culture, which combines a long local history of incubating experimentation and innovation with international perspectives. Our contributors are some of the most renowned artists, performers, writers, educators, and curators working here. This vibrant, complex mix of cross-disciplinary practices demonstrates a model for visual arts criticism that is highly conscious of the audience it is serving, as well as the culture it is representing.
| Afterglow in Divided Space: Renee Gertler at Eleanor Harwood, Art Practical, 2010. | ||
| Bell, Book and Candle: Michael Guidetti at Jancar Jones, Art Practical Shot-gun Review, 2010. | ||
| From Chicago: Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Art Practical, 2010 | ||
| From Portland with Love: Sean Joseph Patrick Carney, Nicole Marie Milchak, & Stephen Slappe, Art Practical, 2010 | ||
| in a world where you are possible: Christine Kesler at NOMA, Art Practical, 2010 | ||
| Justin Beal, Lena Daly, Kate Owens at Jancar Jones, Art Practical, 2009 | ||
| KYO FORTUNE (6000) TELLER LIVE W/ 6000 NEW APPS AND LIVE CDMA DRUG LAB, Art Practical, 2010 | ||
| New World Boredom: James Bradley + Erin Allen at MANIAC,Shotgun Review, 2009 | ||
| The Secret Welcome of Space and it’s Prehistoric Future, Art Practical, 2010 | ||
| Self Expression Night: Complicity, Resistance, and the Touchy-Feely in Bay Area Performance Art, Art Practical, 2011 | ||
| The Immortal, Art Practical, 2011 |