Posted on March 3rd, 2013 by editors
A HANDSOME NEW BOOK — melodiously titled A Dream Begun So Long Ago — chronicles the life of photographer David Johnson from his childhood, shuffling through the care of various adults in segregated Jacksonville, Florida, through his on-and-off relationship with the art of photography. Now it’s firmly on again as the 86-year-old relishes his recognition [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2013 by editors
ART | Michael Schwager The history of Bay Area art is filled with stories of unique individuals, influential institutions and the social and political climate where artists congregated to live and create. An exhibition now at the Di Rosa Foundation in Napa tells one of those stories: the story of an exceptional group of artists [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2013 by editors
ART | Jerome Tarshis Youthful aspiration, ambivalence toward conventional art world success and a pitifully low budget came together for Bruce Conner and Jay DeFeo in the history of her masterpiece, The Rose, now on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through February 3. DeFeo worked on it for eight years in [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2012 by editors
STORY & PHOTOGRAPHS by Carina Woudenberg He’s been a San Francisco resident for more than 30 years, but Jiro Nakamura still makes a yearly trek home to Japan to search for treasures for his shop on Fillmore Street. The treasures include dolls — crafted hundreds of years earlier in many cases — and puppets, tea [...]
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Posted on November 1st, 2012 by editors
DESIGN | Diane Dorrans Saeks Twenty years ago, interior designer Ann Getty began a large-scale redecoration of the Pacific Heights residence where she lives with her husband, Gordon, a composer. It was built in 1906 to a classic design by architect Willis Polk and offers an entry hall with collections as opulent as any London [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2012 by editors
San Francisco’s Fall Antiques Show returns from October 25 to 28 at Fort Mason.
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Posted on October 7th, 2012 by editors
By Julia Irwin “JUST IMAGINE what a bunch of bugs would be doing if they weren’t being watched, and then put that under a glass dome,” says local artist Lisa Wood, describing her otherworldly dioramas that feature insects at work and play. “It’s usually a simple story: a beetle clipping articles out of the newspaper, [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2012 by editors
AN EXHIBITION of Jerry Barrish’s sculptures of musicians created from found materials, “rhythm spirit motion,” opens today at the Lush Life Gallery in the Fillmore Jazz Heritage Center at 1320 Fillmore Street. The exhibition opens with a reception from 2 to 5 p.m. and continues through September 30. Art historian Peter Selz writes of Barrish: [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2012 by editors
By Nick Kiniris THREE YEARS AGO, the concept of the Fillmore Stoop was born, with the intention of making the northern stretch of California Street near Fillmore more pedestrian friendly and softening the harsh visual of the busy four-lane highway. The idea was to create a public space where neighbors could meet, relax, take a [...]
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Posted on July 4th, 2012 by editors
POSTER ARTIST | Carly Lane Plaskett She was a high school art teacher in London before moving to San Francisco four years ago to study new media at the Academy of Art. Carly Lane Plaskett flourished in the “digital meets old school design” program. For a class in typography, she was challenged to design her [...]
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