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Re-Launched: The Pearmanent Collection,
Mikki LeBeau
From humble beginnings, the collection of the Pear Museum has grown exponentially. Initially made up of works by artists taking part in the (now revered) Pear Resident Practitioner Program (P.R.P.P), it has swollen to include 50,000 holograms, translocative simulations and multi-clone-related works, many of which were...
 
Pear Art Fair 2023,
Mikki LeBeau, Rosemarie McCabe, Susan Sinden
The world's most famous art fair opened once again to the public in May. Situated, as always, in Pear Square, Los Angeles, and directed for the first time by two women – Valerie Kirshenbaum and her clone – this year's fair included seventy participating galleries and more than thirty events. As well as these permanent fixtures, the fair featured specially-commissioned artists' ...
         
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If a Pearpod® screams...,
Lei Martz

In its short history, and with each new technological development, new media art – interactive installations, dynamic interfaces, softpear, responsive performances, immersive spaces and, latterly, exercises in artist-to-audience (and vice versa) telepathy – has survived continual categorization and re-categorization. All of the works in...
 
The Masterpiece He Knew He Would Never Live to See,
Rita Birnbaum
Event: 2:15p.m. Saturday May 27th: I enter the darkness of the Pear Museum's unimaginatively-named Multi-Purpose Space. Unaware of the multiple purposes this space has previously served, although these are most probably fascinating, there are more pressing concerns at hand....
 
         
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This discussion was originally scheduled to take place in the seminar space of Pear Museum, Los Angeles, but due to Americo Burgheim's self-enforced, conceptually-crucial confinement to the current venue of his travelling show, ´Certified´ Pear Journal co-editor Peter Krosch, and artists, David Destino and Sol Zimmerman took the trip to Pear Art Center, San Francisco to catch up with their captive colleague...