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Best Of: Year One

August 19, 2010. We’ve reached the end of our first issue year, during which Art Practical went from being an enthusiastically supported idea to an established critical forum for Bay Area visual arts. To mark the occasion, Art Practical’s editors reflect on the wealth of writing that’s appeared on the site, while some of our writers highlight their favorite exhibitions, events, and people from the past twelve months. They had free range to choose their themes; their selections—both singular and recurring—range from the notable to elegiac to the idiosyncratic. It has been a very good year, made possible by tireless work of our editors, the dedication of our writers, the brilliance of our designers and developers, and the generosity of our partners. We hope you’ll join us when we begin Year 2 on September 16, 2010, with the second annual Shotgun Round. Enjoy! - PM

Photo: Eden Maloney.

20 / The Possibility of Possibility

Features

How Things Work, Part 3

Interview with Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

Reviews

SENSEable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures

SENSEable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures

Photo/Synthesis

Trash Humpers

The Urge

From Chicago: Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy

Shotgun Reviews

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations               (of a Crazy World)

Scott Greene: Capitulare de Vita

The Cremaster Cycle plus De Lama Lâmina

Its Own Nothingness

19 / Precisely In Between

Features

Interview with Dan and Lia Perjovschi

Drifting and Navigating: Part 3

Reviews

Kamau Amu Patton

We They, We They

They Knew What They Wanted

They Knew What They Wanted

From Santa Fe: The Dissolve

From Los Angeles: They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures

Shotgun Reviews

Next Deadline For Shotguns: July 22, 2010

The Institute Drawing