Bay Area Art Quake

• Frank Lobdell at the Cantor Art Center in Palo Alto

  Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings November 11, 2009 – February 21, 2010 Essay to come [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:50pm EST
  by namastenancy

• Sherry Miller: Sausalito Artists Winter Open Studios

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  Sherry Miller Sausalito Artists Winter Open Studios Friday December 4th  6-9 pm Saturday December 5th  11-5 pm Sunday December 6th  11-5 pm Industrial Center Building Studio #259 D 480 Gate Five Road (at Harbor Drive) Sausalito California 94965 http://sherryart.typepad.com sherrymiller2020@yahoo.com. [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:28pm EST
  by namastenancy

• Oh Woe! $140 Million Dollar Berkeley Art Museum a No-Go

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  $143 Million dollars for this building in hard times? Read more at my web page at the Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-13996-SF-Museum-Examiner [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  by namastenancy

• Links Du Jour

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  This looks to be a far more illuminating look at life in Tehran than the one in the current show at the Intersection for the Arts. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/arts/television/17death.html?ref=television  We don't love you Thomas Kinkaide, no indeed, we do not. http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2009/11/lot-of-artists-really-sort-of-loathe.html' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  by namastenancy

• De Young: Amish Abstraction - Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown

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  New article up at: http://www.examiner.com/x-13996-SF-Museum-Examiner~y2009m11d20-De-Young-Amish-Abstraction Center Diamond Quilt; image courtesy FAMSF [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:57am EST
  by namastenancy

• Asian Art Museum: Trunk Show, Traditional Tibetan Crafts

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  Trunk Show and Sale Traditional Tibetan Crafts Friday and Saturday, November 20 and 21 10:00 am–5:00 pm The Asian Art Museum store welcomes the Tibet Artisan Initiative and Dropenling Handicraft Center of Lhasa, Tibet, for a special two-day sale of dolls, toys, textiles, and other traditional items hand crafted by Tibetan artisans living in [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:31am EST
  by namastenancy

• Amish Abstractions: Quilts fron the collection of Faith and Stephen Brown

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  Amish faith embodies the principles of simplicity, humility, discipline, and community, yet Amish quilts are anything but humble. Using a rich color palette and bold patterns, the quilts are visual distillations of Amish culture and a truly unique contribution to American textile history. The works’ abstract patterns complement their craftsmanship [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:08pm EST
  by namastenancy

• SF Intersection for the Arts: One Day In The Life: A Collective Narrative of Tehran

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  Founded in the 1960’s, during one of the more tumultuous decades in American history, The Intersection for the Arts continues to showcase works that question the existing zeitgeist. One aspect of the current political discourse is to demonize Iran and the Iranians, just as the Vietnamese were demonized and denigrated [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:58pm EST
  by namastenancy

• Women Artists with a Burning Desire to Weld

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  The Flaming Lotus Girls (FLG) are a group of artists that create large scale sculptures made of steel, stainless steel, copper, bronze, glass, wood, resin, LED lights, variable speed motors, and propane fed fire. The flames shooting out from the sculptures can be from 2 inches to over 150 feet [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:49pm EST
  by Phil Gravitt

• Dangerous Streets

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  San Francisco street artist Chor Boogie was working on a project on Market Street between Sixth and Seventh street (in image at right) when he confronted four people who were trying to steal his spray paint. They stabbed him and took off on a Muni bus, but he hopes surveillance [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:47pm EST
  by namastenancy

• Upcoming for the week of November 12th - tea, quilts and Martin Lubner

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  What a lot of fascinating things to do  - read more at: http://www.examiner.com/x-13996-SF-Museum-Examiner~y2009m11d8-Upcoming-for-the-week-of-November-12th--tea-quilts-and-Martin-Lubner [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:51pm EST
  by namastenancy

• Open Studios - the last weekend.

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  http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/ [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:55pm EST
  by namastenancy

• Upcoming First Thursdays - with a Wednesday thrown in extra!

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  Is it November already? 2009 has, well, not exactly flown by but certainly moved more quickly than I anticipated. Thanks to Anna and Sandy Yaga, who Anna wrote about (see below), I was able to get to Hunter's Point and saw a lot of great art. The day was warm [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  by namastenancy