Curiously Direct Archive

Curiously Direct was an anonymous blog on Facebook of brief reviews of art exhibitions, written by Aaron Harbour, covering five years between June 2011 and 2016. Curiously Direct Archive is an archive of all of the reviews written along with the text from a weekly C.D. newsletter.

Aaron Harbour does a few too many things. He is an artist, curator, writer and DJ operating out of Oakland, CA. As an artist his work concerns identifying ‘misbehaving objects’, words and things acting against expectation with which he attempts to collaborate. He has shown work both locally and elsewhere. He is co-director of Et al., a gallery program with two locations in San Francisco, and has additionally curated exhibitions across the Bay Area. He ran Curiously Direct, an art criticism website and blog at curiouslydirect.com and on Facebook, and has additionally written for Fillip Magazine, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Art Practical, Decoy Magazine, Art Cards, and several small publications/artist catalogues. He has djed widely in the Bay Area; his ongoing podcast series is called Timber and lives at kgpc969.org/timber . He received some modicum of education at the San Francisco Art Institute.