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San Jose snappers compete for top honors in Metro’s new photo exhibit
THE VOTES have been tallied, and the people have spoken—the winner of Metro’s inaugural photo exhibit is San Jose photographer Jai Tanju for his black-and-white photograph of an unknown French skateboarder, appropriately named Skater. The theme of the first group show is “I Live Here.” More
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South First Street was alive with high- and low-tech art for new media festival
IN WHAT can only be described as a huge success, the second annual SubZERO festival took place all along South First Street in San Jose last week. You were either there or you missed out. Dozens and dozens of original and passionate folks displayed art, tech and innovation—not just in booths but on the street, around the trees, in the bars, upside-down, on all fours, on stages and pretty much everywhere else in the immediate vicinity of that entire three-block stretch. Without exaggeration, thousands and thousands of people showed up to partake in the proceedings. More
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Steven Soderbergh directs adult star Sasha Grey in the story of a disaffected escort
HIRING Sasha Grey to play Chelsea, the lead in The Girlfriend Experience, is certainly more than just stunt casting by the wily Steven Soderbergh. Some critics are baffled as to whether Grey, a celebrated porn star, is an uninflected actress or a bad one. Let’s default for the former. More
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Marc and Phoebe Aviles
Since there aren't too many Filipino husband-and-wife photography duos based in San Jose who have won multiple awards in different hemispheres, I just had to infiltrate an operation called This is iT Photography on El Camino Real More
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Western stereotypes meet Japanese realities in new show about geisha at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum (August, 2004)
THE NEW SHOW at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile, clears up the biggest Western misconception about geisha: that they are prostitutes... More
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An exhibit in Los Gatos traces the history of the death industry
IN THE Santa Clara Valley, one just doesn't see too many museum exhibits that explore embalming techniques of the Victorian era. But that's precisely one of the main components of "Ashes to Ashes: The Birth of the Death Industry"... More
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The 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge is a convergence of vision, technology and creativity that could really only come from Silicon Valley (June, 2008)
THE 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge—or 01SJ for short—is not one of those harebrained schemes to "put San Jose on the map," or yet another attempt to alleviate San Jose's inferiority complex. The festival isn't taking place in San Jose just because Vancouver, Venice and São Paulo all have world-renowned cultural biennials and we don't. The festival is happening here because, plain and simple, it must happen here. More
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Established in 1948 in Palo Alto, and in San Jose for over 25 years—15 of them at the current location on Meridian—University Art has carved its niche as the go-to spot for art students and other creative types in the Silicon Valley. More
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