2011-08-07 17:46
Should I feel guilty about this? Blogger's been swell to me for years, but I'm finding Wordpress to be a bit easier to organize my work on.... Poor blogspot. Well, check me out anyway at www… Read More
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2011-08-03 02:49
"If baseball is the opiate of the masses, why aren't opiates given to the masses?"This was possibly the most cogent question posed to Jonah Raskin on Thursday at Canessa Gallery after he rea… Read More
2011-07-21 23:30
Fan Ho’s “A Hong Kong Memoir,” on display thorough Sept. 3 at Modernbook Gallery, might seem at first look like the work of an Asian Eugene Atget — documental (border… Read More
2011-07-21 16:44
The reasons for marrying are probably as numerous as the marriages out there. Why do so many people choose to (legally) bind themselves to other humans for life? It means putting up w… Read More
2011-07-20 03:49
I've talked before about how helpful it is for galleries to offer food and refreshments at openings, that a lot of art seems more beautiful, profound, socially conscious, and politica… Read More
2011-07-18 21:30
Last night’s Litquake event, Cabaret Bastille at Cellspace, was almost a smashing good time. I admit I am disproportionately delighted by parties with costume themes, and there were… Read More
2011-07-14 16:48
Purple Rain and the Castro Theatre are a film/venue combination of a perfection that might be matched only by screening Milk at the Castro, or The Hippie Temptation at the Red Vic, or Das Bo… Read More
2011-07-14 16:48
When we think of classic glamour — pencil skirt, gloves, and arched-eyebrow glamor, the kind that would have looked askance through perfectly lined eyes and French milliner’s net… Read More
2011-07-14 16:48
Historic queer icon, art world catalyst, and Bay Area native Gertrude Stein is enjoying posthumous adulation for her role in modern art history. SFMOMA’s current exhibit showcases her… Read More
2011-07-14 16:48
Dear 49 Geary: I'm afraid you just got served.First Thursdays at the prestigious address are always intellectually, perhaps even spiritually satisfying, not only for art's enriching effect o… Read More
2011-07-14 16:47
If today’s fashion world pushes a narrow concept of beauty — tall, thin, young, more thin — 70 years ago that concept was even narrower, as the tall, thin young girls in th… Read More
2011-07-01 06:47
I paint the way some people write their autobiography…. I have less and less time and yet I have more and more to say, and what I have to say is, increasingly, something about the mov… Read More
2011-06-29 20:25
No foreign sky protected me,No stranger's wing shielded my face.I stand as witness to the common lot,Survivor of that time, that place.-- Anna Akhmatova, 1961How does an artist work in the c… Read More
2011-06-27 06:03
Clusters of young Americans propped themselves up on Golgothan stilettos, clutching their plastic cups of white wine with one hand and texting virtuosically with the other. Some hood… Read More
2011-06-27 06:02
It’s hard not to feel like an overzealous dermatologist examining the subjects of Richard Learoyd’s exhibition at Fraenkel Gallery. His large-scale direct-positive images reveal… Read More
2011-06-27 05:56
Roofs face the elements without shingles and collapsing, store fronts stand shuttered and windows boarded over, and gingerbread crumbles off formerly elegant facades. In Doug Rickard’s… Read More
2011-06-27 05:52
You don't have to pick a special day on Market Street to be yelled at by strangers. And it's not that unusual to encounter those in odd outfits trying to sell you objects and services of ost… Read More
2011-06-27 05:44
Any San Francisco gathering too big to fit inside a bathtub inevitably becomes a fancy dress ball. We love Events and we love to think of ourselves more as participants than as spectators. T… Read More
2011-06-07 02:00
I got an invitation in the mail the other day to the annual “Russian Festival” at the San Francisco Russian Center, an event I attended regularly as a child. I remember tables of… Read More
2011-06-07 02:00
When I was a child I was scared of many things, all imaginary. I had a vintage Everyman Library edition of ghost stories that I tortured myself with at bedtime, and my parents foolishly allo… Read More
2011-06-07 02:00
A friend turned me on to The Believer magazine, which is now my bus and train reading. In the February issue, there’s a fascinating series of essays by transgender author T Cooper on d… Read More
2011-06-07 02:00
Marriage has always held a place in the image of myself that seems so far away, I almost believe I will have to be a completely different person by the time it happens, the way a child must… Read More
2011-05-19 05:59
I managed to get a ticket to the New Year’s Eve performance at Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier of a modern triple-bill, the piece of most interest to me being Le Sacre du Printemps… Read More
2011-05-19 05:59
Another piece I was lucky enough to see in Paris was Eonnagata, a collaborative dance/dramatic work by Robert Lepage, Sylvie Guillem, and Russell Maliphant, at the Théatre des Champs… Read More
2011-05-19 05:59
A few years ago I attended the dress rehearsal of a production of The King and I at the Royal Albert Hall in London. For the most part, it was pleasant, although not being a regular musical… Read More
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