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I saw a werewolf drinking a latte at the DeYoung museum, salivating over his next big plunder

Posted on December 10, 2018 by

The De Young Museum has a great little show about Gauguin that includes Oceania, Europeania, paintings, prints, ceramics and wood carvings. People who’ve been around long enough might notice that the museum’s Maori figure from 1890 is likely the source … Continue reading →

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I Saw The Figure 483689 in Black: Emma Acker’s ‘Cult of the Machine’ and tour

Posted on September 18, 2018 by

Emma Acker curated the “Cult of the Machine” exhibit at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. She also led a small group on a special tour of the show, in July. I actually wrote a paper on this topic, the … Continue reading →

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Gilbert and George Schultz

Posted on August 27, 2018 by

I don’t know much about Gilbert and George other than the fact that Collin Bailey of the D Young thought they were cool. George Schultz ate at Chef Chu’s when he worked at Hoover and then join the bushing ministration … Continue reading →

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Hai Bo Southern Series at Pace Palo Alto w. Sugimoto at DeYoung in SF a whiles back

Posted on May 31, 2018 by

Hai Bo has a show, Southern Series, at Pace Gallery Palo Alto, near the Blue Trees of City Hall, on Hamilton. I had one champagne, one half a white wine, and one beer before zipping over the the Palo Alto … Continue reading →

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Only that Patricia McClung ‘Stanford Arches’ calls to mind Claude Lorrain’s ‘The Sermon on the Mount’ (1656) as refracted by David Hockney as ‘A Bigger Message’, I saw in 2014

Posted on April 11, 2015 by

edit to add, four years later: I stumbled, lost, starving hysterical and naked into the offices of Kleiner Perkins and saw this Patricia McClung work, but couldn’t recall her name.

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DeYoung v. deform, and Comaroff architecture book

Posted on December 1, 2014 by

http://www.amazon.com/Horror-Architecture-Joshua-Comaroff/dp/1935935909 Laughing out loud and rather hardily, at the humorous distortion of the Weissian chin and nose; talk about chin music?! And I juxtapurposed this photo by Eric Cohen, who not not incidentally studied masters level with Paul McCarthy at … Continue reading →

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Tribute to Jacob Koopee

Posted on May 13, 2014 by

Tribute to Jacob Koopee by Barbara Weiss and Mark Weiss Jacob Koopee was a great Hopi potter who died recently at a very young age. I never met him but I have seen several of his masterful works. My mom … Continue reading →

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