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Civic Center (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
The remainder of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was its usual grab bag... ...of pretty modern paintings... ...crammed haphazardly onto large white walls... ...sandwiching silly faux Eva Hesse sculptures... ...and bad, boring video art. To think Don Fisher wants to hang his crappy collection of Warhols and Lichtensteins in a new, ugly museum in the breathtakingly beautiful Presidio still amazes...
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Civic Center (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is hosting a traveling exhibition of sculpture by Martin Puryear on its top floor that is wonderful. If you just happen to be passing by the building at 3rd and Mission and don't have any money, do check out the two works in the lobby for free, including the fabulous 37-foot ladder spiraling to nowhere. The "New Yorker" art critic, Peter Schjeldahl, wrote an appreciation...
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Dexigner Design Portal (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
This exhibition celebrates The 1000 Journals Project, an ongoing collaborative experiment that follows 1,000 blank journals as they journey around the world.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
A filmmaker grabs some headlines, and some glue, to create a collage of recent world events.
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Market Wire - Real Estate and Construction (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) McGuire Real Estate, a San Francisco-based real estate company specializing in luxury real estate, announced today the appointment of Laura Lanzone as Realtor(R) in its San Francisco office at 2001 Lombard Street.
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Wired (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
: Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art What are the social consequences when science allows us to see things that had previously been invisible? Scientists have revealed microscopic life, nanoscale molecules and galaxies billions of light-years away. These images have revolutionized the disciplines in which they were made, but they also transformed the public's imagination, giving common...
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Terrific Shit (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
: Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art What are the social consequences when science allows us to see things that had previously been invisible? Scientists have revealed microscopic life, nanoscale molecules and galaxies billions of light-years away. These images have revolutionized the disciplines in which they were made, but they also transformed the public's imagination, giving common...
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Wired Science (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
If you wanted close-up photos of the moon in the late 1800s, you were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of lunar craters and then snapped carefully lit pictures of them. And...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From February 6 through July 7, 2009, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) features Patterns of Speculation: J. MAYER H., the first solo museum exhibition of work by the German architecture studio J. MAYER H.
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the blog of flightcomparison.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
If you’re planning a trip to the states but don’t fancy chaotic New York or flashy L.A., San Francisco could be the perfect choice. It’s not a quiet city by any means, but there is a nice feeling of tranquillity and leisure that makes it a lot more relaxed than its more rambunctious cousins. Walking [...]
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P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Via Kevin Flanagan: “There is exhibition at the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art called ‘The Art of Participation’ which looks at the history of participatory practice in contemporary art. For a good 50 years now artists have challenged the ‘institution’ of art, blurring the boundaries between art and life, artwork and audience. In a way [...]
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Bay Area Presenters, Social Networking, Special Events and 'Green by
Design(R)' are hallmarks of retooled expo with 'San Francisco
Neighborhoods' theme
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- There's a reason that San
Francisco is America's favorite city. Unrivaled scenery, unequaled cuisine,
and unparalleled cultural offerings make the City by the Bay a uniquely
important destination to be part...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
For three decades, Michael Jang has earned his keep making photographic portraits of prominent San Franciscans, regular Joes and Silicon Valley big shots. But all the while he's been taking other pictures for the sheer pleasure of it: punk rockers, cowboys,...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) through February 8, 2009, The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now presents an overview of the rich and varied history of participatory art practice during the past six decades, exploring strategies and situations in which the public has taken a collaborative role in the art-making
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents this fall the internationally acclaimed exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson. This exhibition gathers works from major public and private collections worldwide and spans Eliasson's diverse range of artistic production from 1993 to the present, including installations, large-scale immersive environments, freestanding sculpture
