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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Art-themed architecture can be big and bold, or stark and subtle. In mid-century California, Brutalism was the design edict of choice, and now area code 510 is bringing it back into the public eye with a renovation of the Oakland Museum of California. Civic architects Mark Cavegnero Associates are retrofitting the existing structure with modernized gallery spaces and open interiors. A cleaned-up new...
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The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
In the future, will there be a Brutalist Revival? Decked out with stainless steel trimmings by Mark Cavagnero Associates, the Oakland Museum of California is getting ready to usher in a Brutalist appreciation. Or at least a bit of nostalgia for a time when architects couldn’t get enough of the monolithic purity of craggy concrete, [...]
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Brand New (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Part of a $58 million dollar renovation, the Oakland Museum of California — which "brings together collections of art, history and natural science under one roof to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people" — will re-open in May of 2010 with a renovated and expanded building designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates. The initiative, which will create more exhibition...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
When Richard Diebenkorn's understated masterpiece, "Ocean Park No. 107," awakes from its eight-month nap, it will find its home at the Oakland Museum of California completely transformed. Gone will be the quiet, static corridors and hushed galleries. The...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Tuesday's media lunch at the Oakland Museum of California, which has been closed to the public since August for major "reinstallation," was local media's starched-napkin and white-wine introduction to the not-yet-reborn 40-year-old museum. A week before, the...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
There are those who served at the battlefront and witnessed first-hand the ugliness of war. And there are the rest of us who experience it from behind exhibition glass. This month in New Orleans, however, The National World War II Museum is opening the doors to a new $60 million complex ...
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Mighty Girl (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
At last, a new Mighty Closet! Did you think the day would ever come? This is my very fun, multi-tasking friend Mai Le, who blogs about street style over at Fashioni.st. (The Masons have been featured on Fashioni.st a few times over the years, and now it’s Mai’s turn in front of the camera.) In addition [...]
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The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Jonathan Raban Hopi man, 1920s; photograph by Dorothea Lange (Oakland Museum of California) Some visual footnotes to my piece on Dorothea Lange in the new issue of The New York Review . I wrote about her work for the Farm Security Administration and her famous photograph Migrant Mother , and also discussed other areas of her work that may be less well known to readers, including this portrait of a...
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LETRAS LATINAS BLOG (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Photo © Jannie M. Dresser City of Berkeley Honors Poet & Artist Rafael Jesús González Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 7 p.m. Berkeley City Hall Council Chambers at Martin Luther King Jr. Way between Allston Way and Center Street in downtown Berkeley SF Poetry Examiner • Jannie Dresser An old hand-bound, brown leather book contains the poems that his mother, Carmen, typed and...
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Thomas Hawk Digital Connection (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
I was excited to read about the opening this week of the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio in San Francisco. I love photographing everything that I can in San Francisco, and a new museum seemed like a perfect place to explore, especially one centered around Walt Disney. One of the things [...]
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SH Collective Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
GOAPELE MOHLABANE is sitting in front of keyboards, microphones, and mix panels at the Zoo, a high-tech recording studio in West Oakland that she built with her Skyblaze production team. The singer—whose blend of hip-hop, R&B, and classic soul is a genre of its own—is putting the finishing touches on her long-awaited third LP, Milk [...]
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
A newly-identified species of ghostshark has been found living off the coast of California. The Eastern Pacific black ghostshark also exists in museums, but has only recently been named as a distinct species, says Douglas Long, natural science curator at the Oakland Museum of California. The newfound ghostshark belongs to the “big black chimeras,” a group [...]
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
OAKLAND, CA.- The Oakland Museum of California today announced that it received a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of a groundbreaking transformation of its Gallery of California Natural Sciences and related programming. OMCA will draw upon the grant to develop Hotspot California, a dynamic, participatory installation that redefines the educational potential...
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The San Francisco Business Times (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Oakland Museum of California has notched $5.6 million more in support of its makeover and rebirth.
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