Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
San Francisco is the slow-food epicenter this weekend as host to Slow Food Nation '08.
aphic is the blog of sOL paNdieLL (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
This site supported an exhibition 010101: Art in Technology Times at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art a while ago. >
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
HUNTINGTON, NY.- The Heckscher Museum of Art presents Michal Rovner: Video, Sculpture, Installation. Known for creating multimedia work on the edge, the evocative Israeli American artist Michal Rovner explores the new fragments of the human condition. Michal Rovner's art transcends genres. Her work involves photography, video, sculpture, installation, light, and sound. Many of
Joe Reifer - Words (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
San Francisco Yerba Buena Gardens Night Abstract #3 — by Joe Reifer Last week Tim Baskerville of The Nocturnes kindly invited me to shoot with his night photography workshop at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco. The gardens have a strict no tripod policy, and normally close at 10pm, but Tim secured a photo permit for [...]
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has finally responded to the Thomas Hawk incident (our coverage) with a terse media release claiming that Hawk was photographing staff in an “inappropriate and harassing manner” and admitting no wrong. SFMOMA concludes the statement by saying that “We have heard the concerns that have been expressed, [...]
Krunker (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Now this goes to show how much Twitter is slowly changing the way we communicate to one another. Dell announced today that they will be answering questions from reporters and customers using Twitter during their global news conference tomorrow. Dell will be unveiling a new generation of mobility products at the news conference which [...] Technorati Tags: Dell , Twitter , Global Mobility Event
This is Herd (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
In the last post about artist Thomas Hawk trying to wreck the online reputation of a director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I referenced Jeremiah Owyang's quote : "Bloggers with large social media platforms are incredibly powerful, and must recognize the long term impacts of their actions." Which got me thinking, why isn't there a blogger's code of conduct? After all, thanks to Google,...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
For those who didn’t see the story on FriendFeed, Digg or BoingBoing, well known photographer Thomas Hawk was thrown out of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this week for the crime of taking photos. Not an unusual case in itself in an age where the fear of copyright and privacy has overtaken the [...]
WinExtra (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
For sometime now I have been reading quite a bit about an increasing number of people who have been victims of police harassment or even arrest for doing something that is well within their rights to do regardless of what country they live in. What have they done to deserve this treatment you might [...]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - From August 1 through November 1, 2008, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) features the exhibition New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple. This focused presentation, part of the museum’s ongoing New Work series, showcases three installations that embody current trends of light-based work in contemporary art, and is organized by Alison Gass, assistant...
The Blog at 16th and Q (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Today’s post comes from the West Coast where I am accompanying my wife at the BlogHer08 Conference in San Francisco. While she was off attending panels and talks about building community online and the power of female consumers in a Web 2.0 environment, I took a busman’s holiday to the brand-new Contemporary Jewish Museum on [...]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Marissa Mayer's high opinion of her own good taste will be getting that much more insufferable now that she can tell people that she's on the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Call it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
San Francisco, CA - From June 14 to September 28, 2008, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition Frida Kahlo. Organized by world-renowned Frida Kahlo biographer and art historian Hayden Herrera, the presentation will include approximately 50 paintings from the beginning of Kahlo’s career in 1926 to her death in 1954. The San Francisco presentation is organized by...
Right Voices (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The list includes the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ($36,500) and San Francisco Symphony ($5,600). “But with the exception of an occasional $1,000 contribution to a Boys & Girls Club, little went to the less fortunate,” Schweizer, a Stanford professor, writes.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
Is it art or pornography to exhibit photographs of naked 12- and 13- year-old girls? That perennial debate was reignited in Australia yesterday, where police swooped on a Sydney gallery displaying works by the internationally renowned artist Bill Henson.
