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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Art Talk

By Dan

Tomorrow evening, Oakland Museum of California's new Senior Curator Rene de Guzman, will be speaking at Oakland Art Gallery. Tickets are $15 at the door. In his lecture, de Guzman will examine the roles and functions of museums in the context of local and global art cultures, sharing his observations about the burgeoning Oakland art scene. You may pre-register by phone at (510) 637-0395 or online.

His discussion will focus on the ways that regional activities and ambitions reflect global trends and ideas, emphasizing strategies to assert local identity while placing Oakland and California in relationship to the international art world.

Rene de Guzman, also a visual artist and writer, previously directed visual arts programming at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. As Visual Arts Curator at YBCA, de Guzman fused fine art with popular culture, curating the groundbreaking exhibition Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, in addition to several of the Bay Area Now exhibitions. His curatorial record is marked by significant, early support for Bay Area artists and by curatorial experimentation.

7 p.m.–9 p.m., $15, Oakland Art Gallery, 199 Kahn's Alley (on the ground floor of the 150 building in the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza).

 


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