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The Museum of Jurassic Technology: Harbinger of Major Gift Fails
10 Jun 2023
Lawrence Weschler’s Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney are essential for an understanding of those artists’ thinking, the trajectories of their careers, and the impacts of their work. But when Weschler lectured at the San Francisco Art Institute (9...
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A QuickTake and Radio Valencia Cafe
28 Dec 2022
You’re forgiven if you’re thinking “surely he meant to title this A Quick Take on Radio Valencia Cafe”.
Liberty Street runs for only six blocks but it’s complicated; it’s interrupted between Sanchez and Noe Streets, and it’s split-level, divided by a lovely strip garden, between Sanchez and Church. It starts in The Mission, crests what some call Liberty Hill – passing near the
Warhol, Empire, the Met Life Tower, and Me
03 Aug 2022
It’s tautological to say I’m resigned to being a fatalist but disappointments take their toll and I tend to set my expectations low. I learned late that the second volume of The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné was nearing publication and while Callie Angell had been gracious in crediting me in her publications for providing the clue necessary to sequence the reels...
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For Sale: Robert Indiana 'MECCA I, II, III'
02 Aug 2022
Pop Artist Robert Indiana was commissioned to design the basketball floor for the Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center and Arena (MECCA). The floor made its debut in October 1977 and was disassembled after the Bucks began playing in the BMO Harris Bradley Center in 1988. I don’t know the current status of the floor, only that it was saved from a salvage...
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For Sale: John Wesley 'Smoke Ring'
01 Aug 2022
Update
This painting sold in Artsy's Post-War and Contemporary Auction, September 2022.
John Wesley, who passed away in February of this year, truly had a style all his own. I became a fan through being exposed to his work in Lucy Lippard’s Pop Art and jumped when I had the opportunity in 2000...
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