The
Contemporary Jewish Museum
(CJM) welcomes its new Executive Director Lori Starr and celebrates the
first five years in its Daniel Libeskind-designed home in downtown San
Francisco. Free admission, dance and music performances, art-making and
crafts for families, and more on Sunday, June 9, 2013.
The festivities will include a reading by San Francisco Poet Laureate
Alejandro Murguía and remarks by California State Senator Mark Leno on
Jessie Square in front of the Museum, plus indoor and outdoor
performances by AXIS Dance Company, a cappella Leonard Cohen choir, The
Conspiracy of Beards, Bulgarian woman’s choir True Life Trio, and Porto
Franco Klezmer All-Stars.
Sunday, Jun 9. Free admission all day.
http://www.thecjm.org/
Bash
Contemporary: Grand Opening tonight with an exhibit of works by Sandi
Yagi , mistress of 21st century Gothic. This will be Yagi's first solo
show at a location that is becoming full of interesting, quirky art
spaces, not afraid to show "risky" art. The Tenderloin is becoming the
center of SF”s cutting edge art spaces, as noted in a recent article in
"Beyond the Chron":
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11458
http://bashcontemporary.com
Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Future Woman. Through June 2013
George
Krevsky: "Future Woman." SF poet laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti is
having his 7th solo show at George Krevsky. The 94-year old shows
commendable vitality, if little finesse, in his current paintings of
brash nudes.
“In 20th century art, the image of woman
was constantly under attack, from Picasso’s two-faced women to De
Kooning’s merciless portraits, to the latest tagger’s decimation.”
Ferlinghetti wrote recently, “Women’s liberation movements freed women
from conventional restraints, but also dethroned her from the pedestal
where she had always been seen as the embodiment of pure beauty and
mystery.” Pure beauty and mystery? Obviously he hasn't been looking at much for the last 50 years. Ferlinghetti's work is crude enough to qualify as a sexist attack
and as far as women's lib freeing women - maybe Mr. Ferlinghetti should
read the daily news.
http://www.georgekrevskygallery.com/
But he is still the poet laureate of SF and can do no wrong as evinced by this laudatory interview at SF Weekly:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-06-05/culture/lawrence-ferlinghetti-beat-generation-city-lights-howl-and-other-poems/
Oakland
Museum of California: After more than 3 years of construction, the
Gallery of California Natural Sciences is open to the public. Visitors
can experience seven real places throughout California that depict the
stat's diverse habitats. A new exhibit is on display "Inspiration
Points: Masterpieces of California Landscape," presenting more than 60
iconic paintings, photography and works on paper.
Xavier Timoteo Orozco Martinez
The
artworks included in Inspiration Points have been carefully selected
from the Museum's extensive and pre-eminent holdings of California art
from the Gold Rush era to the present to tell the stories of how people
have interacted with the natural world. Artists featured will include
Ansel Adams, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, David Hockney, William
Keith, Arthur Mathews, Richard Misrach, Thomas Moran, and more. The
exhibition will be divided into several areas of focus that reflect
artists' depiction of the landscape from a celebration of California's
sublime natural world, to the documentation of exploitation of natural
resources, to the investigation of the intersection of the urban and
"wild."
Arthur Mathews. Spring Dance.
Drew
Johnson, Curator of Photography and Visual Culture, says, "From
majestic scenes of unspoiled wilderness to exploited lands and dystopian
visions, Inspiration Points illuminates how artists have interpreted
the landscape at particular moments in time. Highlighting important
recent acquisitions while also shedding new light on timeless favorites,
the exhibition examines the changing attitudes toward the environment
over time and provides a surprising investigation of California's
natural world."
http://www.museumca.org/
http://www.examiner.com/list/cjm-sandi-yagi-at-brash-ferlinghetti-at-krevtsky-oakland-museum
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