News Archive 2020-24

2024

San Francisco Chronicle: Three Bay Area ceramists celebrated in ‘Ritual Clay’ (November 2024)

San Francisco Chronicle: Jan Shrem, winemaker and benefactor who jump-started the UC Davis art museum, dies at 94 (Oct. 31, 2024)

Juxtapoz: Light into Density: Abstract Encounters 1920s–1960s (October 2024)

San Francisco Chronicle: Midcentury modernism lives on at Eames Archives — plus 13 other art shows to catch 

San Francisco Chronicle: Exclusive: UC Davis receives $20 million, its biggest gift ever to fund arts (May 2024)

Squarecylinder: Bloody Testaments to Female Resilience (February 2024)

Squarecylinder: Deborah Butterfield @ Manetti Shrem: Peerless sculptor takes a star turn at her alma mater (January 2024)

2023

Squarecylinder: Best 0f 2023 (December 2023)

Vacaville Reporter / Vallejo Times-Herald: Activist printmaker Montoya’s works in two major NorCal museum shows (September 26)

Sactown Magazine: Horses of a Different Color (September 2023)

Next Avenue: Mike Henderson: Before and After the Fire (July 2023)

San Francisco Chronicle: Fire destroyed 20 years of Mike Henderson's work. But it also turned his art in a new direction (July 2023)

Artforum: Mike Henderson / Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum  (June 2023)

The Brooklyn Rail: Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965–1985 (March 2023)

Frieze: Mike Henderson’s Heated ‘Protest Paintings’ Re-Emerge From the Flames (February 24)

ARTnews: An Odyssey of Fire: Nearly Destroyed in a Blaze, Mike Henderson’s Long-Lost Paintings About the Rage of the ’70s Reemerge (February 13)

The Guardian: 'I could have died': how an artist rebuilt his career after a studio fire (February 2)

Forbes: Mike Henderson's American Odyssey On View At University of California, Davis (January 2023)

Sacramento Bee: His works feared lost, pioneering painter Mike Henderson’s art rises in new UC Davis show (January 30)

Squarecylinder: The Dialectical Journey of Mike Henderson (February 2022)

Sactown: “By Any Means Necessary, I Will Keep Being an Artist.” (January/February 2022)

Widewalls: The Manetti Shrem Museum to Present Mike Henderson’s First U.S. Solo Museum Exhibition in 20 Years (January 2022)

2022

San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area visual arts scene stacked with new shows, anniversary celebrations for 2023 (December 2022)

Alta Journal: Mike Henderson's Personal Renaissance (December 22)

Squarecylinder: Best of 2022 (December 2022)

KQED: The Best Art I Saw in 2022 (December 2022)

Juxtapoz: Loie Hollowell: Tick Tock Belly Clock @ Manetti Shrem

Nob Hill Gazette: Manetti Shrem Museum Honors Artist Mike Henderson (November 2022)

Davis Enterprise: Rebuilding community at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art (September 2022)

Squarecylinder: Black and Proud: Masterpieces from the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art(August 2022)

Sacramento News & Review: Young Gifted and Black exhibition at U.C. Davis reassess narratives around an American experience (August 2)

The Sacramento Observer: UC Davis Exhibit Showcases Black Art (August 2022)

Capital Public Radio's Insight: Young, Gifted and Black (July 2022) Guest Susie Kantor

The Vacaville Reporter: Manetti Shrem Museum: At UCD, an expansive art show casts an eye on ‘blackness’ (July 29)

Sactown Magazine: True Colors (July 2022)

San Francisco Chronicle: 9 Bay Area art exhibits you can't miss this summer (June 19)

UC Davis News: Artists Honored as Graduate Exhibition Opens (June 7)

Hyperallergic: UC Davis Humanities Graduate Show Shines Light on Art, Music, Political Science, and More(June 2022)

Square Cylinder: The Art of Resistance @ Manetti Shrem Museum (March 2022)

Capital Public Radio's Insight: UC Davis Museum Receives Architectural Recognition (March 2022) Guests Rachel Teagle and Florian Idenburg 

ARTnews: The 25 Best Museum Buildings of the Past 100 Years (January 2022)

UC Davis Dateline: Wayne Thiebaud's Death Brings Outpouring of Tributes to UC Davis Artist (Jan. 11, 2022)

Capital Public Radio's Insight, Remembering Wayne Thiebaud & Joan Didion (January 2022) Guest Rachel Teagle

2021

UC Davis News: UC Davis statement on the passing of Wayne Thiebaud (Dec. 26, 2021)

San Francisco Examiner: For Wayne Thiebaud, happiness was a solid morning of painting in his Sacramento studio (December 2021)

The Sacramento Bee: 'A great gift to the world': California, art community pay tribute to Wayne Thiebaud (Dec. 27, 2021)

New York Magazine: Wayne Thiebaud, 1920-2021 (Dec. 27, 2021)

Artnet.com: The American Painter Wayne Thiebaud, Who Transformed Cakes Into Symbols of Joy and Longing, Has Died at 101 (December 27, 2021): 

New York Times: Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101 (December 2021)

San Francisco Chronicle: Celebrating Wayne Thiebaud’s influence as artist turns 101 at Manetti Shrem Museum (October 2021)

San Francisco Chronicle: Manuel Neri, groundbreaking sculptor and member of famed art faculty at UC Davis, dies at 91 (October 2021)

Capital Public Radio, Insight: A UC Davis Wayne Thiebaud-inspired exhibit (October 2021): Guests Susie Kantor and Vonn Cummings Sumner

SFGate: Explore the evolving influence of Wayne Thiebaud in new Manetti Shrem Museum exhibition (September 2021)

Square Cylinder: Beyond funk (Sept. 2021)

Square Cylinder: The Emancipatory Formalism of Arnold J. Kemp (July 2021) 

Sactown Magazine: A Lasting Impression (June 2021)

The Backdrop Podcast: Rachel Teagle on the Reopening the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art (May 2021)

Artforum: PASSAGES - William T. Wiley (1937–2021) (May 2021)

The New York Times: William T. Wiley, ‘Funk Artist’ Who Spurned Convention, Dies at 83 (May 2021)

Nob Hill Gazette: The Interview: Mike Henderson Has More to Do (May 1, 2021) 

San Francisco Chronicle: William T. Wiley, multifaceted artist and educator integral to Bay Area art scene, dies at 83 (April 2021)

Squarecylinder: Irving Marcus (1929-2021) (March 2021)

Nob Hill Gazette: The Academic Artist: At 100, Wayne Thiebaud is Still Making Art, Teaching — and Influencing (March 2021)

2020

KQED: Six Bay Area Art Shows to See in 2020 (January 2020)

Square Cylinder: Stephen Kaltenbach @ Manetti Shrem (January 2020)

San Francisco Chronicle: Manetti Shrem Museum’s stellar gala lauds UC Davis artist (January 2020)

Sactown Magazine: In the Name of the Father (January 2020)

The Sacramento Bee: Decades after leaving New York art scene, a UC Davis grad reveals his secret work  (January 2020)

The Sacramento Bee: UC Davis grad exhibition moves online to showcase student projects during coronavirus (May 2020)

UC Davis News: Manetti Shrem Museum Continues to Share Art (May 2020)

Santa Barbara Independent: La Artista Adriana Arriaga, Next-Generation Chicanx Art in Santa Barbara (September 2020)

The San Francisco Chronicle: Getting to know Wayne Thiebaud as the painter turns 100 (October 2020)

Sactown Magazine: The Sweet Life (October 2020)

UC Davis News: Talk Addressing the Power of Untold Stories Through Photography (October 2020)

The Sacramento Bee: Wayne Thiebaud turns 100 today: Sacramento celebrates its best-known artist (November 2020)

Squarecylinder: Best of 2020 (December 2020)