I visited a new-to-me gallery this weekend: Porto Franco Art Parlor, at 953 Valencia, San Francisco. It's a small second floor walk-up in a Victorian building between 20th & 21st (across from Liberty Street.) Imagine a tiny apartment, turn each room into an exhibition space, and use the kitchen-dining area as the reception space. It's [...]
You may remember Chor Boogie as the aerosol artist who was stabbed in November while working on his Market Street mural. He's not only recovered, finished the mural, and then repaired it after a vandal attack, but he is planning other huge projects both internationally and around town. Now there’s an opportunity to see some [...]
Does the path of excess lead to the tower of wisdom (William Blake)? New post up at SF Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-13996-SF-Museum-Examiner No tags for this post. Related posts related posts :
Last week I attended a thoughtful lecture by Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, a global design consultancy. He was at California College of the Arts to talk about his new book, Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Brown's own company is a model of transformation and innovation. A quote from [...]
Henry Ossawa Tanner is a world-famous "Negro" artist almost unknown in his native America. I'm publishing this story in acknowledgment of Martin Luther King Day, 2010. Why isn't Henry Ossawa Tanner a household name? He is a major American artist with an international reputation. Is he relatively unknown here because he is an African American? [...]
Another post on the ongoing gutting of the arts and the waste of creativity. How shall we now live?http://www.artsjournal.com/criticaldifference/2010/01/the-dangers-of-hunkering-down.html Tags: Marx Brothers Related posts related posts :
It's Saturday and while other people are sleeping late, I've been writing away like mad. I've got a new piece up at Chez Namastenancy and another at the Examiner. SF Museum Examiner A press release arrived with today's collection of e-mail that SFMOMA, in partnership with the Gap, will be selling T-shirts with images from [...]
Keith Hansen in his Bolinas studio. Keith is friendly, knowledgeable and enthusiastic birder who also happens to be a talented artist. His studio is not only the space where he paints, it also serves as retail space, bird observatory, and ad hoc museum. He is currently working on a massive project, identifying and illustrating he [...]
Nancy Ewart, David W. Sumner & I went over to Oakland Sunday, to see the Amor Fati show at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, but it never opened. We stood around with several other people who had also come to see the show. Since we'd come some distance we stuck it out for almost an hour [...]
For those of you who live in SF and are familiar with our crazy politics, this does not refer to Chris Daly and his New Year's resolution to use the "F" word at every Board of Supervisor's meeting. No, the F line is operated as a heritage streetcar service, using exclusively historical equipment both from [...]