Future voice

More than 100 so- called Precisionist artworks by seminal artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, along with prints by photographers such as Imogen Cunningham and Paul Strand, complemented by clips from films such as Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, and even a vintage Cord Phaeton automobile, comprise Cult

of the Macine: Precisionism and American Art, at De Young gallery in San Francisco. The exhibition addresses the aesthetic and intellectual concerns that fuelled the development of this artistic style during the 1920s and 1930s in America. Not unlike today, optimism about what technological progress could achieve was tempered with anxiety about its potential dangers and misuses. ( Until Aug 12). famsf.org