The Baldessari exhibit at the Legion of Honor museum continues on through November 8th, 2009. It’s called ”John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.”
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Your Baldessari of the Day, #4: Two Bowlers (with Questioning Person)
Friday, September 4th, 2009
Your Baldessari of the Day, #3: Stonehenge (With Two Persons)
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009The Baldessari exhibit at the Legion of Honor museum continues on through November 8th, 2009. It’s called ”John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.”
Here’s Stonehenge (With Two Persons), times six:
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“Stonehenge (With Two Persons) Orange is an example of Baldessari’s technique of obscuring portions of photographic images with brightly colored dots. The use of singular, saturated color and their placement speak to Baldessari’s wit and ability to simultaneously mimic and criticize artistic practice.”
O.K. then.
This concludes Your Baldessari of the Day.
Your Baldessari of the Day, #2: (Two Things) Better Experienced/Difficult to Describe
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009The Baldessari exhibit at the Legion of Honor museum continues on through November 8th, 2009. It’s called ”John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.”
Here’s (Two Things) Better Experienced/Difficult to Describe, 1988 - a billboard project for Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria. It’s huge.
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This concludes Your Baldessari of the Day.
Your Baldessari of the Day, #1: Animal (Black) at Ocean: Agitated
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009The Baldessari exhibit at the Legion of Honor museum continues on through November 8th, 2009. This show is called ”John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.”
Here’s “Animal (Black) at Ocean: Agitated“
You like it?
And here’s tall, tall John Baldessari himself, on last month’s walk-through with aforementioned art patron Jordon Schnitzer himself:
This concludes Your Baldessari of the Day.
John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective Runs Through November 8 at the Legion of Honor
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Read all ab0ut John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation at the Legion of Honor Museum right here at SFGate.com.
He’s an American conceptual artist famous for his influential collage-like prints. A dominating figure, you could say.
Let’s pass by fellow art lovers Seán Martinfield and John Buchanan…
…to get to the gallery. (You can read Seán’s take here, at the SFSentinel.)
What’s up with “Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of 36 Attempts)”? Why exactly 36 attempts?
He had 36 shots in his roll of film, and he shows you his best dozen. Why not?
More photos of last month’s opening to come….
You’ll have until late Autumn to drop by and see the exhibition.
See you there!
Bixi, the Bike Taxi, in Golden Gate Park – Testing Out the Canadian Bike Rental System
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009The Bixi short-term bike-share roadshow blew into town today, however briefly, to show us how they do it up in Montreal.
But first things first – a quick report on what our visiting bike-sharing visitors were surprised by in GGP:
1. The summertime cold and wind;
2. The homeless dude with a guitar case who flipped out, attacked a jogger, and had to get taken down by a bunch of Park Rangers and SFPD officers;
3. Noisy raptors circling low overhead; and
4. San Francisco’s famous bicycle built for four. It almost stole the show. See?
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Program Director Andy Thornley with SF Weekly’s Matt Smith et ux, ”quad” liberi, all together on a charming, fully-functioning bicycle. Click to expand:
So Bixi is just like the Parisian Velib program except the Bixi bikes aren’t as heavy, which is a good thing. But the Bixis are still heavy though. And if you happen to be six foot one and a ton of fun, you’ll find that the frame is strong enough but that the seatpost doesn’t go up high enough. Otherwise the whole program is as you would expect.
The mise-en-scene today:
In France, they incentivize people to drop the bikes off at the tops of hills. If a program like this ever gets off the ground in San Francisco, what would it take to deal with stations at the tops of our mini-mountains?
Bienvenue à Montréal!
It’s enormous work keeping a program like this going. The little monsters of France have effectively managed to steal, vandalize, and otherwise mangle the entire original fleet – at a replacement cost of thousands of dollars each, that’s a tough row to hoe.
If you want to make a system like this work in San Francisco, you’d need a subsidy from the government, the way that MUNI and BART and Golden Gate ferries get subsidies.
And where will people get the helmets they’ll need? Whoops. (In gay Paris, they take a c’est la vie approach to matters like this.)
All in all, I’d rather have a regular bike and a U-lock than a Bixi program membership. But if you can’t find a cab or you just missed your bus, you might like having the option of a short-term bike rental.
We’ll see.
City CarShare Cohosts Bike Sharing Demonstration.
Exploring New Trends in Green Mobility
| WHAT: | A one-day opportunity for the public to ride bikes from a bike share system. Bike sharing allows people to pick up a bike from one station, travel to their destination and return the bike to any other station in a network. City CarShare will be conducting a survey among participants to get their feedback on the concept, the equipment and their level of support for bike sharing in San Francisco. | |
| WHEN: | Sunday, August 2, 10 am- 3:30 pm | |
| WHERE: | Golden Gate Park, (just inside the car-free Sunday road closure on JFK Drive at Conservatory Drive East) | |
| WHY: | To allow the public to test-ride the bikes and learn more about this eco-friendly mode of urban transportation. Through this demonstration project, the sponsors hope to encourage awareness and increased civic conversation about Bike Sharing for San Francisco as having the potential to build a greener city while encouraging healthy living. | |
| SPONSORS: | City CarShare, SF Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), BIXI (of Montreal) | |
| COST | Free | |
