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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