The San Jose Museum of Art’s new show, Mexicanismo, features works of irony and heartbreak by 13 artists. The glistening black moustache spirals downward and outward—riotous parentheses for the red-veined drinker’s nose protruding far beyond the shelter of a towering sombrero.
Articles by Maureen Davidson
A new show at the San Jose Museum of Art tracks the career of Joan Brown, a woman in the men’s club of Bay Area painting.
A play opening Feb. 10 at Stanford’s Cubberley Auditorium confronts issues of reproduction science. It’s written by Carl Djerassi, known as the chemist who pioneered development of the Pill.
Ronald Harwood’s “The Dresser,” now at San Jose Rep, focuses tightly on these two: the fast-failing Sir, played by an alternately stentorian or whimpering Ken Ruta, himself a theater legend of considerable proportions, and his longtime dresser, Norman, drawn with brilliant nuance by James Carpenter.
The “Leo Villareal” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art reveals, more than any exhibit I’ve seen, an evolutionary moment in technology-enabled art. The “objects” of transmission are themselves elegant, starting with a wall of mirror-finished stainless steel embedded with recessed LEDs.
