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Field Notes: Boom or Bust in the Bay

Bryan Barcena

West Coast Editor
    Bryan Barcena is a writer, editor, and curator based in Los Angeles. He is the West Coast Editor of Artforum.
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    Photograph of San Francisco skyline with a billboard and the Salesforce Tower in the background.
    Field Notes
    Boom or Bust in the Bay
    Taking the pulse of a changing art scene during San Francisco Art Week
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    Manuela Gonzalez, Inanna, 2024, acrylic on mixed fabrics, 66 × 58 × 2”. From “Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way.”
    View of “Eric-Paul Riege: (my god, YE’ii [1–2]) (jaatłoh4Ye’iitsoh [1–6]) (a loom between Me+U, dah ‘iistłǫ́),” Bockley Gallery, New York, 2021. Photo: Rik Sferra.
    Santiago Yahuarcani, Examen de bancos en la cueva del saber (Bank Exam in the Cave of Knowledge), 2021, natural dyes and acrylic on bark cloth, 36 × 82”. From “Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Material.”
    Alonzo Davis, Eye on ’84, 1984/2025, acrylic. Installation view. Photo: Sarah Golonka.
    View of people walking into a crumbling ruin.
    Diary
    Branching Out: Around the Paiz Biennial
    The highs and lows of the Guatemala-based biennial's twenty-fourth edition
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    A statue of two figures, one with wings, covered in red streaks, holding a wreath and a sword, with trees and a cloudy sky in the background.
    Los Angeles
    “MONUMENTS”
    Various Venues
    October 23, 2025 - April 12, 2026
    A textured mountain-like form with multicolored hues of green, blue, yellow, and white, under a bright blue sky, blending abstract shapes and patterns.
    A person crouches near a large textured surface made of densely packed brown material and straw, reaching out to touch it in a spacious indoor setting.
    People standing in a red-lit room with handwritten text on walls, neon art, hanging objects, and various installations on the floor and walls.
    Diary
    Tariff Worlds
    Around SP-Arte and the 14th Mercosul Biennial
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    A large-scale sculptural installation in the shape of a calabash placed in the center of a museum atrium. A door-size opening is carved into its right side.
    On Site
    No Aloha
    At the Fourth Hawai'i Triennial
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    Getty Research Institute aerial view
    Features
    RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
    On the history and mission of PST ART: “Art & Science Collide”
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