''Art Practical'' is an online arts

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

based in San Francisco producing arts criticism, essays, quarterly issues, and programming related to contemporary art and visual culture in the Bay Area and beyond.

History

The magazine was established in 2009 by Patricia Maloney, who served as director and editor-in-chief until 2015. In 2013, the publication acquired and incorporated the events website Happenstand and the arts publication ''Daily Serving'', which maintained its independent site with Maloney as director. Beginning in 2015, the California College of the Arts became the publisher of ''Art Practical'' and ''Daily Serving'' with Maloney transitioning to executive director and with Kara Q. Smith and Bean Gilsdorf, respectively, as editors-in-chief. In March 2015, Maloney resigned and took the position of executive director of ''Southern Exposure''. Michele Carlson was named as the new executive director in May 2016.

Publication

The magazine has produced over 1,000 reviews, hundreds of columns, and more than a dozen thematic issues organized by staff and guest editors. The publication also hosts a user-submitted events calendar for arts and cultural events in the

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...

Programming

The magazine has organized programming and partnered with numerous organizations including The Lab,

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...

, Ratio 3, and the Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium. The publication was awarded a residency in 2011 in Kansas City via the Charlotte Street Foundation and

Spencer Museum of Art The Spencer Museum of Art is an art museum operated by the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Spencer Museum seeks to "...present its collection as a living archive that motivates object-c ...

and a residency in 2012 in Miami via Cannonball (formerly Legal Art Miami). From 2013-2016, the magazine co-sponsored an artist residency with the

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, natio ...

. The recipients of the three residencies were Chris Vargas (2013), Nomi Talisman and Dee Hilbert-Jones (2014), and Jerome Reyes (2016).

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