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Lebbeus Woods, Architect: Sketchbook
Lebbeus Woods, Architect is on view at SFMOMA til June 2. Throughout the run of the exhibition, we’re featuring a series of posts reflecting on Woods’s work and legacy. Below, thumb through the pages of a sketchbook Woods worked on in New York, San Francisco, Vienna, Kraljevica, Vico Morcote, and NYC; 1995-1998. You can see [...]
Silents: Before and After, Part Two
The IMA’s silent film series continues on April 12, with a rare showing of WC Fields’ So’s Your Old Man (1926), followed by its sound remake You’re Telling Me (1934). Although Fields is well remembered for his talking pictures, his silent work is nearly forgotten today. Most of the films are tied up in complex rights issues, none of [...]
Flower power: Explore the fragrant orchid at the Orchid Show & Sale on April 20-21
Editor’s note: Today’s blog comes to us from John Stubbing of the Houston Orchid Society. Have you ever thought of growing your own orchid corsage? There are plenty of reasons to take up growing these exotic and beautiful plants as … Continue reading ?
Quick Hit: Upcoming Opportunities in Santa Cruz
I'm starting this post with an annoying, fabulous number: 73.
That's the predicted high temperature today in Santa Cruz. It's the typical temperature here all spring, summer, and fall. It's pretty freaking beautiful.
The weather is hopefully...Show More Summary
Iguana invasion: Ship stowaway leads to international plea deal for Colombian infiltrator
When most folks want to see the Museum for free, they come on our free day (Thursdays from 2 to 5 p.m) But one of our latest visitors did it differently: He stowed away on a cargo vessel amongst a … Continue reading ?
Nam June Paik: Musician and Media Artist Stephen Vitiello Interviews Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
Stephen Vitiello, electronic musician and media artist, interviewed Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning musician and composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, before they perform their tribute Strange Music for Nam June Paik, part of the Art & Process program on Sunday, April 14....
Understanding Ai Weiwei
For those who haven’t heard, Ai Weiwei: According to What? opened last week at the IMA. Ai Weiwei is a revolutionary artist and activist, known for his constant battle against Chinese government. Ai’s works tell a story—a story of oppression, political corruption, and a fight for equality. But to fully understand the context in which [...]
Spring Veggies
The IMA vegetable garden in the orchard has been prepped and planted for the spring!
Leora Lutz Reviews “OPENING,” curated by Taj Robinson and Nikki Mirsaeid
Leora Lutz submitted this review of the exhibition “OPENING” curated by Taj Robinson and Nikki Mirsaeid, in response to an assignment in my Dual-Degree Seminar at California College of the Arts. The ALTAR Projects she discusses were on display at Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist in San Francisco, February 1 – February 28, [...]
Win two FREE tickets to the Cockrell Butterfly Center! Read on for details
Help me help you by helping us help ourselves. Or something. Can I get Tom Cruise on the line? Anyhoos — we’ve got a favor to ask, and we’re preemptively returning it. If you help us make our website better … Continue reading ?
Silents: Before and After, Part One
For the next two weeks, the IMA will be presenting a series of unusual silent films. Each night a double feature will be presented. Following a “before and after” theme, the first film will be an original silent, while the second is a related version, altered in some way. Tonight, April 5, the main feature [...]
Walt Whitman's Specimen Days
Bierstadt Brothers, Albumen silver print, "Patent Office, Washington D.C.," 1861, The Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C. later became the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, housing the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Portrait...
Lebbeus Woods, Architect
Lebbeus Woods, Architect is on view at SFMOMA til June 2, and we’ll be featuring regular posts reflecting on Woods’s work and legacy throughout the run of the exhibition. Our inaugural post is from SFMOMA’s assistant curator of architecture and design Joseph Becker. Experimental architecture has long been a focus of the Architecture and Design Department [...]
Making the common uncommonly beautiful: Fabergé takes on the bell-push
Editor’s note: This blog comes to us from Fabergé historian and guest curator Timothy Adams. Adams has 30 years of experience in the jewelry industry and was a guest scholar for the “Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler to the Tsars” exhibition at The Bowers … Continue reading ?
Get blown away by Weather Land at HMNS Sugar Land’s next Friday Family Fun Night this April 5
Learn about all types of weather phenomena at HMNS Sugar Land’s next Friday Family Fun Night, this April 5! Join the intergalactic fact gatherers of Zula Patrol and explore concepts like clouds, precipitation, wind and temperature. Each patron will receive … Continue reading ?
Serendipity in the Museum
Susie Krasnican discusses her work Dress for Success Serendipity has always been an important role in the art making experience. Sometimes an artist's muse seems to talk to us in ways we could never predict. Actually, it's something we often...
Why Do We Interpret Art and Science So Differently?
A genius has just created a major body of work. Her work is monumental in her field, but her achievements are somewhat opaque to the general public.
Imagine seeing a museum exhibition related to this person's work. What will you experience?
The...Show More Summary
A1 Travel Grants
In 2010 I wrote for Open Space about the need for travel grants for Bay Area artists. I’m writing today, almost three years later, to announce a new year-long travel grant program that offers an award of $1,000 once-per-month to any Bay Area artist who needs to go somewhere. The review process is as free [...]
Seeing Stars with James Wooten: April 2013
Jupiter is now lower in the west at dusk. Face west at dusk and look for the brightest thing there (unless the Moon is also there), as Jupiter outshines all stars we ever see at night. Saturn shifts from morning … Continue reading ?
