Archive for February, 2010

Gail Wight, Restless Dust – San Francisco Center For the Book

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

 "Anemones would mock us and Darwin's ghost would lose his mind among the barnacles" Gail Wight, Restless Dust. 2009 IIMPRINT Residency Book project at the San Francisco Center for the book. Since 1996, the San Francisco Center for the Book has been teaching bookmaking and related skills and showing work that expands the boundaries of [...]

Operation Restore Defenestration

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Defenestration -- the art landmark building on the corner of 6th and Howard with all the furniture hanging out of the windows and crawling up the walls -- is celebrating its 13th anniversary. On March 5, 1:AM Gallery (right across the street from Defenestration) will kick off a fundraising event and solo show by the [...]

Weekend Wrap Up for Feb 20-21st.

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Margaret Harrison. Captain America. Intersection for the Arts. I've got some suggestions for weekend viewing - a mixture of shows from cartoons to a new show of Asian paintings at the Cantor Art Museum in Stanford. http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/ Tags: Captain America Related posts related posts :

Shanghai – Art of the City at the Asian Art Museum

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

My longer piece on Shanghai is up at Chez Namaste Nancy. I haven't exhausted the subject so be prepared for more. Upcoming is "Soiled Doves, Modern Women and Celluloid Goddesses - the visual vs the virtual." http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/ Tags: Asian Art Museum, Chez Namaste Nancy, Soiled Doves Related posts Where are the women at SF MOMA? [...]

Shanghai – Art of the City at the Asian

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Over at Chez NamasteNancy is the first of several posts on this complex, interesting and sometimes disappointing show. I diss Baker, love Shen Fan and post a couple of links. As always, feedback welcomed, comments encouraged and no respectful opinion turned away. We even publish posts from bloggers not wearing shoes or the appropriate apparel. [...]

Nudes for Valentine’s Day

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

You can draw your own inferences about this, but when I decided to spend the day at the Getty, I'd completely forgotten that it was the Valentine weekend. (Not that I have anything against Valentine's Day; on the contrary, I love glitter and lacy white doilies and hearts and pink tissue paper and anything trimmed [...]

Shanghai at the Asian Art Museum

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Cross Posted from Working Artist's Journal Saw the Shanghai show at the Asian Art Museum yesterday. It strikes me as an historical exhibit, using art to tell the history of Shanghai, one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities, and sister city with San Francisco since 1979. Using paintings, prints, posters, furniture, clothing and installations, the [...]

Tuymans – essay and discussion

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

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Weekend rambles: outsider art, sky photos and video whimsy

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

I followed Ramona's advice and went in search of art that I hadn't already seen. Well, I've seen Hartman's work in the past and loved it but the other artists I looked at were entirely new to me. James Castle (at Gallery Paule Anglim and BAM) is another outsider artist who has been recently discovered [...]

Inspiration across disciplines

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Just a quick note to remind everyone how important it is to be open to cross-disciplinary experiences in the arts. Many readers are visual artists, and often we find that we mainly feed off others doing the same thing: we attend art openings of --yes-- visual art. So, if you have the opportunity this weekend, [...]