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Created for the Orange County Museum of Art's renowned California Biennial, this exhibition catalogue features forty-five contemporary California-based artists and collectives in all their rich diversity. The works shown here include remarkable developments in contemporary art, including drawing and works on paper, film and video, installation, painting, performance and dance, photography, sculpture, and text-based work. This exhibition and catalogue continue the museum's four-decade history of presenting new developments in contemporary art and identifying new talent on the verge of national and international recognition. 'California is an inimitable and variegated environment in which to work as an artist, ' states Sarah Bancroft, the exhibition's curator. 'The 2010 presentation champions emerging artists, celebrates a selection of more established practitioners, and shares a unique vision of the vibrant practices and the disparate media found in the state today.' This catalogue offers four-page entries for each artist, featuring reproductions of their works, an extensive interview, and biographical material

In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African

"California Crackup is brilliant. It cuts through the familiar tangle of diagnoses and quick-fix solutions to provide a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of California's dysfunctional governmental system. Paul and Mathews have coolly laid out a complicated story, made it readable, sometimes even comedic. It is the best discussion of the issue I've seen in over three decades."--Peter Schrag, author of California: America's High-Stakes Experiment "I know of no other work that combines so succinctly and enjoyably a historical summary of California's existing problems with such a sweeping and provocative program of reform."--Ethan Rarick, University of California, Berkeley "Mark Paul and Joe Mathews have produced an indispensable guide to California's crisis of governance--and they have done so with humor, scholarship, fairness and storytelling verve. Every Californian should read this book."--Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars "Mark Paul... has a talent for presenting California Big Think stuff in an easily accessible and always readable way...[offering] clear and creative insights on the subject of California's collapse."--CalBuzz "Joe Mathews has done an artful, fascinating, and convincing job of connecting the California of today's Schwarzenegger era to the long history that made his rise possible.--James Fallows,The Atlantic Monthly on Mathews' book, The People's Machine

What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.