With Liberty and Justice for ALL - Marches around the world in Jan 21

Big Crow reopens in Reno, Nevada

http://www.bigcrow.com/

Best of 2016 per Hyperallergic

http://hyperallergic.com/348131/best-of-2016-our-top-15-exhibitions-across-the-united-states/

December events for the Bay Area

http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=outabout&article=812

Richmond's Annual Downtown Holiday Festival

Richmond, CA - With wreaths and snowflakes adorning the street lamps along Macdonald Avenue, Downtown Richmond is starting to look a lot like the holidays. The neighborhood is also gearing up for a fantastic celebration of the season at the annual Downtown Holiday Festival on Wednesday, December 14 from 4pm-8pm, thanks to a continued partnership between two cornerstone agencies-Richmond Main Street Initiative, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts with support from the City of Richmond.

Visits and photo opportunities with Santa will take place from 4pm-7pm. Giveaways for children include books donated by West County Reads and gift bags for young children (while supplies last). Families will also have opportunities to enjoy live music and caroling outside and in the Community Theater, performed by East Bay Center students and faculty artists.

Upstairs, in the Iron Triangle Theater, audiences of all ages will enjoy A Richmond Nutcracker, a unique and spectacular performance telling the story of The Nutcracker through a Richmond lens. Classic characters, stories, and dances will be presented in traditional and distinctly Richmond interpretations. Performances are scheduled for 5pm and 6:30pm (running time approximately 45 minutes).

Following the second performance, a procession will lead guests to the corner of 11th Street and Macdonald Avenue for group caroling and the ceremonial illumination of the holiday lights.

Admission is free and made possible through generous support from the City of Richmond, Mechanics Bank, Sims Metal Management, and individual donors. More information about the festival, making a contribution, or volunteering can be found at www.richmondmainstreet.org or by calling (510) 236-4049.

What:    Downtown Holiday Festival and Holiday Lights Illumination Ceremony
When:    Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Time:     4pm - 8pm
Where:
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, 339 11th Street Richmond

Whole lot of events going on this weekend

http://www.sfexaminer.com/dec-4-5-ragazzi-boys-chorus-japanese-tea-garden-concert-darlene-love-christmas-latin-symbolics-china-philharmonic-ballet-america-nutcracker-left-coast-chamber-ensemble/

Do your Christmas shopping at Creativity Explored

Indulge in mischievous gift giving at Creativity Explored.

Naughty & Nice Holiday Art Shop
December 2 - 30, 2016

Shop Creativity Explored's annual Holiday Art Shop this season. Bring your friends (and have fun) while supporting local artists with developmental disabilities. One-half of the proceeds from the sale of every artwork go directly to the artist.

The Gallery and Studio is stocked with affordable gifts for everyone on your list. Select from original drawings, paintings, textiles, ceramics, mixed media, framed art, and a collection of products featuring designs by Creativity Explored artists.

Opening WeekendSaturday, December 3 & Sunday, December 4
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Holiday Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday         10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday – Sunday     12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Also open by appointment

Main Studio / Gallery / Offices

3245 16th Street (at Guerrero Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 863-2108
info@creativityexplored.org

Italian Christmas Market at the Museo Italoamericano

Italian Christmas Market at the Museo Italoamericano  

The Mercatino di Natale is the cheeriest Italian tradition in the Bay Area, inspired by the famous Christmas markets in Northern Italy and throughout most of Europe.

Come join our community in the celebration and pick the perfect gift for family and friends: artisanal food, handmade jewelry, latest Italian fashion, trendiest accessories and more. All unique items are made by Italian Artisans. We can't wait to give you a hug!

Time and place: 10:00 am - 6 pm Saturday; 10:30-5:00 Sunday
Museo Italo-Americano, Fort Mason Center BLDG C, San Francisco.

In collaboration with Forchette Tricolori, a vibrant cooking club where, originally, women shared recipes and celebrated good eating. 

How to keep busy this Thanksgiving Weekend

From Hoodline: http://hoodline.com/2016/11/castro-events-thanksgiving-week

SF State 29th Annual Stillwell Student Juried Exhibition

 Leo Stillwell Self Portrait

Courtesy SFSU

The majority of the exhibition at the SFSU Fine Arts Gallery features art students’ latest work in a variety of medium.  The most moving piece in the exhibit is a Golden Gate Bridge replica sculpture, titled “Crisis Line: (415) 781-0500,”  referring to the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Crisis Line, composed of bright red miniature plastic people fused together.   

Nearby was a laugher, a bulging circle made from hundreds of emoji stickers, titled, “Please Just Call Me.”

One wall of the exhibit showcases letters and drawings by watercolorist and oil painter Leo D. Stillwell Jr, who died in 1948 at age 22.    The letters, which include drawings, were written by Stillwell to his friend Russell Hartley.   Beautiful small paintings and drawings also adorn the backs of the envelopes.  The letters were found about 25 years ago in a dumpster on Duboce Street by Alan Perry, who recently donated them to the University.    Stillwell’s mother donated 500 of his works to SF State in 1987, although her son never attended SFSU.  Bay Area journalist and former SF Chronicle writer Jesse Hamlin wrote about the exhibition recently in the Chronicle.

I arrived at the exhibit 15 minutes before closing, so I was in a hurry and didn’t take notes.   The Gallery does not allow photographs.    After I left, I saw signs directing me to another gallery several hallways and doorways away.   When I got there, it was closed.  I passed by some large pottery workshops finding my way on the way out of whatever building I ended up in.    Not to go all John King here, but hopefully when the new SFSU buildings go up on 19^th Avenue after the Muni revamp, there will be easier access to public spaces, less need for outsiders to wander the campus, and more people seeing the art being created here.

San Francisco State University

Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Gallery

Wednesday, November 09, 2016 to Thursday, December 01, 2016

Gallery hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays, 11am to 4pm. 

The gallery will be closed for Thanksgiving break, November 23 through November 26. 

Free. 

E-mail: gallery@sfsu.edu

Phone: 415-338-6535

Posted by Phil Gravitt

Frank Stella at the de Young and Bruce Conner at SFMOMA

The museum visitor could not ask for a great contrast in styles and philosophy than the two retrospectives now up in San Francisco; Frani Stella at the de Young and Bruce Conner at SFMOMA. Stella specializes in bright, bold, non-expressive art, just right for that expensive loft, big corporate office or museum wall. He was crowned "Art King of NY" right out of art school and has consistently remained popular.

Bruce Conner's huge retrospective, now at SFMOMA, is a polar opposite. A deliberate outsider, a Peck's Bad Boy of art, Conner adored being angsty, depressive, grim, an avant guarde practice of art sketched in black. By the time he died at age 74 in 2008, the San Francisco–based artist had created films, collages, photograms, performances, assemblages, drawings, and paintings. He avoided celebrity like the plague and reveled in his outsider status. If Stella's work deliberately avoids emotion and any definition of self, Conner positively played with both ideas to the point where he announced his death....twice, before actually dying in 1974.

Conner told Kenneth Baker (then art critic for the SF Chronicle), "My entire history as an artist coincides with the history of the bomb," he told me in 2000, "and it's colored almost everything I've done. But I also don't see why you can't have a good time and be aware of your own mortality."

Frank Stella at the de Young through Feb 26, 2017

Bruce Conner at SFMOMA through Jan 22, 2017

Rebecca Solnit at the Green Arcade on Thursday, November 17 + calendar of events

Thursday, November 17, 7pm
(doors open at 6:30)
At the 3rd Floor
McRoskey Mattress Factory
1687 Market St. 

The Green Arcade and
University of California Press
Present:

A Release Party for:
Nonstop Metropolis:
A New York Atlas

with Rebecca Solnit & Joshua Jelly-Shapiro, editors

A note from Rebecca: This event has been planned for a long time. But after the election, we're making it a focus on cities as cosmopolitan places of coexistence, tolerance, subversion, resistance, and joy, of Black, Asian, Latino, Muslim, Jewish, Quaker, immigrant, queer, drag, trans, feminist lives and victories. Please join us.                   
HOSTED BY: The McRoskey Mattress Company


Tuesday, November 22, 7pm
Poetry with Chet Wiener, Michael Palmer and Sarah Riggs

Sunday, December 4, 10am-6pm
The 3rd Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair
At City College, Mission Campus 

Wednesday, December 7, 7pm
The San Francisco launch of Mat Callahan's
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco: 1965-1975

  Saturday, December 10, 7:30pm
Poetry with Sarah Rosenthal, Aja Couchois Duncan
and Arisa White

Tuesday, December 13, 7:30pm
Poetry with Susan Gevirtz & Mystery Guest

Free First Tuesday at the Contemporary Jewish Museum: Rivers and Tides

Nov 1 is #FreeFirstTuesday! at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Explore "#NedKahn: Negev Wheel" and view documentary "Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time."

Landscape sculptor #AndyGoldsworthy is renowned for his environmental sculpture using ephemeral materials like ice, stone, leaves, and wood. →thecjm.me/2fjK4ZL
#KahnCJM→thecjm.me/NedKahn

http://www.thecjm.org/programs/film-video-screenings/1152-free-first-tuesday-documentary-rivers-and-tides

Canaletto

Canaletto, born OTD 1697: Piazza San Marco in Venice, seen from the Basilica of Saint Mark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaletto

November at SFAI, Day of the Dead in SF and Open Studios, 3rd week.

San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street.  Photo by Claudine Gosset

Andrei Codrescu lying on the guest-bed of an art collector under a portrait of Mao by Andy Warhol. No attribution/ courtesy of Nina Savich/ SFAI

Lots going on at SFAI through November. If you can make it up that hill or find parking, SFAI holds their annual art sale and festival called "Concentrate" on Nov 12 & 13 that transforms SFAI into an all-campus art sale by current undergraduate and graduate student artists and features a juried alumni show too.

November 8: "Gender in Translation, After Hours," organized in  partnership with Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US

Ongoing Visiting Artists and Scholars series including  Andrei Codrescu on Nov 8 and artist Koki Tanaka on Nov 1 whose show Koki Tanaka: "Potters and Poets” will be on view at the Asian Art Museum November 4, 2016–February 14, 2017. Dara Birnbaum, a New York-based media and installation artist, on Nov 15.

Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA. Visit sfai.edu for more info ...

Day of the Dead Events in SF including the 17th annual Dia de los Muertos at SOMarts: http://www.somarts.org/exhibitions/day-of-the-dead/
http://www.sfstation.com/2016/10/25/3-not-to-be-missed-day-of-the-dead-events-in-sf/

Art Span. Open Studios, 3rd week:

WEEKEND 3: OCTOBER 29 & 30, 11AM TO 6PM

Presidio, Richmond, Upper Haight, Buena Vista, Cole Valley, Sunset, Ocean View, West Portal, Portola, Excelsior, Balboa Park

For more information: Open Studios

eBay Collective

Photo; Peter Estersohn/Architectural Digest, April 2012. Interior Design, Suzanne Kasler Interiors

This should be interesting. It's not the first time that art works have been sold via on line, but who is doing the curating? I think they will go from the dreadful to the sublime (one hopes for the sublime). How can a dealer tell if an item is authentic via a photo on the Internet? A quick look at the fine arts pages shows a lot of works by unknown artists, selling for $1000 and up.

"Today, eBay launched a new destination, eBay Collective, an elevated shopping experience to provide interior designers and consumers with curated inventory of furniture, antiques, contemporary design and fine art. The bespoke experience has been specifically developed for eBay’s 164 million active buyers looking for sought-after products from trusted dealers and galleries. Dealers featured on the destination have been invited by eBay, and they meet eBay’s criteria to ensure a high-quality shopping experience. “eBay’s brand is about helping every person find their version of perfect. Following our launch of eBay Wine this spring, eBay Collective is another example of how we’re committed to providing our consumers with curated experiences that are complemented with unique inventory and increased scope of choices to shop from,” said Jill Ramsey, eBay’s Vice President of Soft Goods."

http://www.ebay.com/rpp/collective

William Blake exhibit at the John Windle Antiquqrian Book Store in SF

http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/2016/10/william-blake-in-san-francisco.html

Sawyer Rose performs "The Carrying Stones" at Fort Mason

Sawyer Rose. Ties That Bind // 2016, 20 x 8 x 7 feet, 1000 handmade tiles, silver solder, copper, fiber, wireframe figure

Inspired to explore the “double burden” carried by women who work at paid jobs and are also responsible for domestic labor at home, Bay Area artist, Sawyer Rose is performing "The Carrying Stones" project at Fort Mason.

"Carrying Stones" is a series of a sculpture, performance and video works that portrays the physical, emotional, and practical effects of this issue.

Concurrent with this performance, her sculpture "The Ties that bind" is also on exhibit at Ft. Mason.

"The Ties That Bind "sculpture is a data visualization of hours of unpaid work that women do in the domestic sphere. It is made of 1000 handmade tiles, each representing an hour of time worked.

Women around the world do more unpaid housework than men – A recent study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the percentage of men and women who are involved in housework has barely moved since 2003, with 84% of women reporting doing 2.6 hours of unpaid housework daily vs. 64% of men who reported doing any housework at all, and those that did spent 2 hours a day. This is even more striking at a time when the US has nominated its first female presidential candidate.

While women in the US workforce are still struggling to break the glass ceiling, they’re also fighting to stop “scrubbing the tile floor” at home. Cooking, cleaning, and childcare responsibilities often still default to women, keeping them from advancing at work and in society.

Inspired to explore the “double burden” carried by women who work at paid jobs and are also responsible for domestic labor at home, Bay Area artist, Sawyer Rose debuted "The Carrying Stones" project at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture on Friday, September 23. "Carrying Stones" is a series of a sculpture, performance and video works that portrays the physical, emotional, and practical effects of this issue.

The project documents the lives of 47 women who are currently tracking the hours they spend on paid work, unpaid work, and other activities in a custom web application built for this project.

Ties That Bind (detail) // 2016, 20 x 8 x 7 feet, 1000 handmade tiles, silver solder, copper, fiber, wireframe figure

“No matter how far today’s women “Lean In,” it’s hard to be the CEO when they are also the head chef, janitor, and caregiver,” says Sawyer Rose. “The goal of this installation is to shine a light on an important issue in our society, and to be a catalyst for more dialogue and solutions to the problem.”

Learn more about the Carrying Stones project at: http://www.carrying-stones.com/ and https://fortmason.org/event/carrying-stones/. The sculpture will remain on display for two months on the south side of Building D next to the FLAX art & design store.


For inquiries & sponsorship opportunities:  sawyer@sawyerrose.com   415-806-2458


all images courtesy Sawyer Rose

Quick Saturday Museum Round-Up: Legion, De Young, Asian Art Museum, Kearny St. Workshop & Market St.

Legion of Honor ‏@legionofhonor Now open! Meet the Le Nains, a 17th century artistic trio of brothers who lived together, played together and painted together. http://leg.hn/yGXGF

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive ‏@BAMPFA
Happy Saturday! FamilyFare today consists of exploring the Berkeley Eye Exhibit & creating some fun art. http://ow.ly/rouG304HKoT

De Young Museum ‏@deyoungmuseum
Encourage exploration and creativity with one of our free family art-making sessions! http://dey.ng/DLge2

Ed Ruscha exhibit closes tomorrow https://deyoung.famsf.org/

Asian Art Museum ‏@asianartmuseum Get in on @AsiaWeekSF action with a trip to our "Mother-of-Pearl Lacquerware from Korea" show—now on view.

This afternoon: Kearny Street Workshop, the Bay Area’s hub for Asian Pacific American arts, presents APAture’s Performing Arts Showcase Featuring Sammay Dizon and a lineup of some of today's most exciting emerging artists from the San Francisco Bay Area. http://www.asianart.org/events/1046?starttime=1475884800

"While lollygagging up Market Street, stop and take a peek at the cool doohickeys and rad new structures along the way. The third annual Market Street Prototyping Festival is underway, happening on Market from the Embarcadero to Van Ness. "
http://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/7/13206230/market-street-prototyping-festival-2016

Tickets for Art Launch

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/artspan-artlaunch-2016-sf-open-studios-exhibition-opening-reception-tickets-26203767173?platform=hootsuite