Via Tara Moriarty, of KTVU-TV:
@KCBSNews reporter Holly Quan: early signs garbage truck/cyclist both on 16th St. Truck made R turn onto S Van Ness; bike went straight.
Here it is, your last chance to see a San Francisco Ballet performance this season.
The reviews are in:
Janos Gereben in the SF Examiner: S.F. Ballet ‘Don Quixote’ a season-closer to remember
Allan Ulrich in the San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Don Quixote’ review: S.F. Ballet adds eye appeal
San Francisco cultural critic Sean Martinfield in the Huffington Post: ’Don Quixote’ Is Spanking New at San Francisco Ballet
Vanessa Zahorian by Erik Tomasson
And guess what! Tonight, Thursday May 3rd, you can get in on the after-hours party.
Check it:
“Join us for “Thursdays at the Ballet” this Thu, May 3!
Featuring a spectacular performance and an exclusive post-performance party with friends and SF Ballet dancers
SF Ballet invites you to experience our final “Thursdays at the Ballet” of the 2012 season, featuring our sparkling, newly designed production of Don Quixote and an exclusive post-performance party. Mingle with friends and SF Ballet dancers and enjoy Latin-style music, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, tequila sampling and cocktails by Tres Agaves!
To purchase “Thursdays” package tickets visit sfballet.org/Thursdays or call 415.865.2000 and add the party on to your ticket order for this Thu, May 3.”
All right, see you there!
Don Quixote might very well end up being the best program of the season at our world-class San Francisco Ballet.
You’ll like it.
So click here.
I don’t know what the actual deal is, but it should be good.
We’ll all find out today at noon.
Act now.
Thusly:
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A wheelie bike, also called a muscle bike, high-riser, or banana bike, is a type of stylized children’s bicycle designed in the 1960s to resemble a chopper motorcycle and characterized by ape hanger handlebars, a banana seat with sissy bar, and small (16-to-20-inch (410 to 510 mm)) wheels. Notable examples include the Schwinn Sting-Ray and Krate lines and the Raleigh Chopper line. Other notable manufacturers and retailers that offered models include AMF, CCM, Columbia, Huffy, Iverson, J. C. Penney, Malvern Star, Monark, Murray, Ross, Sears, and Vindec.
See?
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Now, what do the little monsters, the defective people who steal saddles and seatposts, like, what do they do after? Sell them parts for $5 to some guy in a van underneath the freeway on Division?
All right, it’s a living, I guess.
This is just a reminder, ’cause when this show is gone, it’ll be gone for good.
Why go to Paris if Paris can come to you, right?
Pablo Picasso, Tete de Taureau (Bull’s Head), Bicycle saddle and handlebars
All the deets:
“FINAL WEEKS FOR PICASSO: MASTERPIECES FROM THE MUSÉE NATIONAL PICASSO, PARIS
EXHIBITION CLOSES MONDAY, OCTOBER 10
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—The exhibition Picasso: Masterpieces From the Musée National Picasso, Paris enters its final weeks at the de Young Museum in San Francisco and closes on October 10. The exhibition travels next to Sydney, Australia for its run at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
This exhibition of 150 important paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings created by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is drawn from the permanent collection of the Musée National Picasso, Paris the largest and most significant repository of the artist’s work in the world, and comes to the de Young as part of an international tour. The artwork is touring because the Musée is currently closed and undergoing a multi-year renovation expected to last through 2012. Ranging from informal sketchbooks to finished iconic masterpieces, this unique collection of “Picasso’s Picassos” provides significant proof of the artist’s assertion that “I am the greatest collector of Picassos in the world.”
The exhibition, co-organized by the Musée National Picasso and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is part of a world tour that began in 2008 with stops at museums in Madrid, Helsinki, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Seattle, Richmond (VA), San Francisco and Sydney.
Hours and Ticket Prices
The exhibition Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris has the following hours:
Tuesday–Sunday: 9:30 am–5:15 pm (last ticket 4 pm)
Friday-9:30 am–8:45 pm
Monday–closed
Tickets are available at www.deyoungmuseum.org or at the museum box office.
Adult
$25
Senior 65+
$22
Student w/ ID
$21
Youth 6-17
$15
Child 5 & under
free
Members
free
Organization
This exhibition is co-organized by the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Bank of the West is Presenting Sponsor. Christies and Hanson Bridgett LLP are Sponsors. Major Patrons are Penny and James George Coulter, and the Estate of Mary Price Moffatt. Lead Patrons are The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, The Bernard Osher Foundation and Douglas A. Tilden, and the Lead Sponsors are Isabelle and Charles Picasso.
About the de Young Museum
The de Young, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and located in Golden Gate Park, is the nation’s fourth most visited art museum. It showcases American art from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries, international textile arts and costumes, and art from the Americas, the Pacific, and Africa.
Address:
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday, 9:30 am–5:15 pm
Friday, 9:30 am–8:45 pm
Closed Monday”
Well, maybe this critter seen below isn’t as famous as the dramatic chipmunk yet, but no matter – our de Young Museum will let you see it for free in the regular collection when you come to ogle Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris.
And the Big Reviews are In from:
Chronicle Art Critic Kenneth Baker; and
(De facto) Examiner Art Critic Janos Gereben
They both love it, non?
Get your tickets here.
As seen outside the Big New Picasso Show. (And actually, there’s a reason why you can see the Godzilla-style zipper on the back – can you think of why? Look for it, before or after your Picasso tour, and you’ll find this piece somewhere in the de Young…)
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See you there!
It’s almost here. It’s Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris.
And check it - Janos Gereben and Nancy Ewart have all the deets already.
Speaking of monsters:
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Now this is one of the objets that will be hanging about in Golden Gate Park – it’s Head of a Bull (1942):
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All right, see you there!
The de Young hosts an extraordinary exhibition of more than 100 masterpieces by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) from the permanent collection of Paris’ world-renowned Musée National Picasso. The once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, made possible only because of the temporary closure of the Musée Picasso until 2012 for extensive renovations, comprises paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints drawn from every phase of the artist’s career. The works on view demonstrate the wide range of artistic styles and forms that the artist mastered, including: La Celestine (1904), from the artist’s Blue Period; Two Brothers (1906), from the Rose Period; Expressionist studies for Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907); the Cubist Man with a Guitar (1911), the Neoclassical Portrait of Olga (1917), the artist’s wife; the proto-Surrealist Two Women Running on a Beach (1922); Portrait of Dora Maar (1937), the artist’s lover and famed French artist; six Surrealist bronze heads of the artist’s mistress, Marie-Therese Walter; the Head of a Bull (1942) fabricated from a bicycle seat and handlebars; the bronze Goat (1950); the six life-size bronzeBathers (1956); and the late self-portrait, The Matador (1970).
The girls would turn the color of an avacado
When he would drive down the street in his El Dorado
Why, he was only 5′ 3, girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
Not like you
Yeah, he was really something
The recent trend of taking parts off of bikes continues. Witness this ride without a seat.
I don’t know what else you can take off a bike and still have it function as a bike. I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough.
As seen in Union Sqaure
Here’s what you need – a Kick Bike!
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And, actually, it’s the ur-bike. It’s just like this Draisine / Laufmaschine from the ’20′s.
That’s the 1820′s, partner:
Whether you want to stand or sit, a push bike is for you. There’s no pesky chain to get in the way of a True Bicycling Experience.
And Amazon has them for like $110.
See you on Valencia!
