Author: Peterson Toscano

Peterson Toscano

March-April 2024
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Art

Figures of the Bay Area

By Ignacio Darnaude: Theophilus Brown and Paul Wonner and the Bay Area Figurative Movement challenged the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, offering an alternative path.

Essays

Butterflies Caught in a Web

By William Benemann: Yone Noguchi, this handsome Japanese poet from California, might possibly be the New Kid, someone who was young, racially exotic, and very talented.

Features

‘Outcasts and artists flocked to the city.’

Interview By Hilary Holladay of San Francisco photographer, Chloe Sherman (photo, Sidewalk Music, 1997.)

Art

One Hundred Years of Togetherness

WHILE the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York’s Greenwich Village is generally considered the spark that ignited the gay liberation movement in the U.S., San Francisco was the true epicenter of gay life for much of the previous century, as demonstrated by the following chronology of quick takes that briefly highlight some of the pioneering individuals, organizations,More
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