from the Exhibit “Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade,” at the CA Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Mark Rothko’s No. 14, 1960, at the SF Museum of Modern Art
Edvard Munch’s Night in Saint-Cloud, at the SF Museum of Modern Art
Feathers and Oil Paint: More Texture
August 4, 2017 at 2:57 pm (Artists and Writers, postaday)
Tags: art, exhibits, Fridays, museum, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
Texture: The Daily Post Photo Challenge 2 August 2017
August 2, 2017 at 5:29 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Food and Drink, Links, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: art, California, discoveries, exhibits, memories, museum, nostalgia, restaurants, San Francisco
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge (posted every Wednesday) is TEXTURE.
Photos have “a tactile element, too,” Ben Huberman says. As an example, he provides his shot of “tangles of seaweed . . . across the wet sand at low tide.”
Here are three of self’s own examples of texture:
- The lace on a ladies’ hat, circa 1900 – 1925, in the exhibit on Impressionism and the Milliner’s Trade at the CA Palace of the Legion of Honor:
Maker identified only as “French, Madame Georgette”
- Look at the wonderful texture in this salad arrangement!
Le Pain Quotidien, Claremont, CA: July 2017
- Discovered in the exploration of son’s room: a frog that squirts water. Self loves that the frog’s skin is so pebbled. It has a degree of realism you don’t often find in other toys.
Plastic Frog! Found in Son’s Room in Redwood City, CA: This used to be one of his favorite toys.
More Unusual
July 21, 2017 at 2:40 pm (Artists and Writers, Plays, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, exhibits, Fridays, London, postaday, postaweek, Sacramento, Shakespeare, Wordpress
Jessica Dunne exhibit at B. Sakata Garo Gallery, 20th Street, downtown Sacramento
Self loves bright colors!
A T-shirt from the gift shop at Shakespeare’s Globe: A Quote from Romeo and Juliet
Collage: The Daily Post Photo Challenge, 13 July 2017
July 13, 2017 at 9:57 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Family, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Niece, Personal Bookshelf, Philippine History, postaday, Relatives)
Tags: art, California, exhibits, museums, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Sacramento, San Francisco, Wordpress
What is a collage? In the words of Michelle Weber over at The Daily Post, it is “an assortment, a collection, a hodgepodge.”
Here are a couple of shots that show a collage:
- The printed dress. So fabulous. The wearer was self’s niece, Rina. We were having lunch at Boiling Crab:
Rina Villanueva, July 2017
- An assortment of reading matter: Everything from a Playbill to a book written by someone she used to know in college, Rick Manapat. The book, History of Negros, is about an island in the Philippines called Negros (The Spanish gave it the name, in the 16th century):
What Self Found in Son’s Room: July 2017
- A collection of roses on a hat at the recent exhibit “Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade” at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor:
Woman’s Hat, circa 1910: The artist went by the name “Madame George”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
#amreading: Exhibition Catalogue, Jim Goldberg’s “Raised by Wolves” (SFMOMA 1995)
July 4, 2017 at 4:30 pm (Conversations, Eavesdropping, Holidays, Personal Bookshelf)
Tags: causes, exhibits, museum, photography, San Francisco
“I want to get married and have at least four kids with ten dogs and live in a mansion with a jungle greenhouse with a pet jaguar.” — Runaway
“It is very difficult for a runaway kid to return after he or she has been on the street for more than a few weeks.” — Police Officer
“Adam and Troy have AIDS. Scooter is dead. Katy gave up her kid and is hanging out in bars in Polk Street selling pot.” — Runaway
“You know, they would rather live in filth and hunger with a group that will accept them than they would with a family that will meet all their physical needs, yet inflict on them emotional pain and torment.” — Preacher
“We won’t lose our jobs, this is a growth industry, good as the utility company.” — Counselor
Happy Fourth of July.
Stay tuned.
#amreading: Sunday, 2 July 2017
July 2, 2017 at 5:05 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: art, California, causes, exhibits, history, Literary Magazines, memoir, nonfiction, photography, reading lists, San Francisco
Exhibition Catalogue, SFMOMA: Jim Goldberg’s “Raised By Wolves,” Photographs of Seattle’s Street Children (1995)
A Parent of a Runaway, Quoted in the “Raised by Wolves” Exhibition Catalogue
TRANSIENT 2: AT SFMOMA
June 25, 2017 at 4:16 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Food and Drink, Links, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: art, exhibits, museum, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, summer, Wordpress
Went for the Edvard Munch exhibit. Stayed to view the permanent collection. Forgot about Gay Pride and got stuck in the hugest traffic jam. At least, got to see the mayhem starting.
While taking a coffee break at SFMOMA, she shared her little table with a young woman from Japan named Yoshie Yam. It turned out we both love traveling. Love, love, love traveling. So, self chooses to begin her second post on The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge, TRANSIENT, with this, our little table at the SFMOMA Coffeeshop:
Coffee break at SFMOMA, after seeing the Edvard Munch exhibit
On the second floor of the SFMOMA is this huge black-and-white photo. Not quite sure about the decade. 1960s? Which reminds self, it is the 50th anniversary of San Francisco’s Summer of Love! There’s an exhibit commemorating the anniversary at the de Young. Self wanted to go today, but was put off by the traffic that always surrounds Gay Pride Day:
Finally, the Munch exhibit, the one that self drove all the way to San Francisco to see. The paintings are striking, powerful, disorienting. The one below is one of the largest. It’s called “The Dance of Life.” The men are already turning into ghouls:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Hockney and Cavafy in the British Museum
May 12, 2017 at 12:22 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, England, exhibits, Fridays, inspiration, London, museum, poetry
It is Friday. The British Museum is open late. Right now, it’s full of schoolchildren. They slouch all over the galleries in their jeans and backpacks. Some are French. One French schoolgirl calls an elevator by pressing one sneakered foot against the down button. Remind self never to touch a button in the British Museum. Ever. Another sits on the floor of a gallery, just staring in a kind of daze. Two of her friends come sit next to her. They don’t ask her if anything’s wrong.
The Hockney sketches are in a room right next to the British Watercolors, 1850-1950. Self walked all through the watercolor exhibit yesterday. It was so amazing.
She went back today for the Hockneys.
She loves Cavafy. So does Hockney.
Hockney’s sketches of men are simple pencil, or pen and ink. They are so evocative. Two men lie naked in bed together. There’s one simply entitled “Peter, 1966.”
How beautifully he captures the form of these men in repose! Some of the schoolboys in the gallery were giggly, though not to the point of disrespectfulness.
There’s also a sketch of a shopkeeper standing at the door to his business. Beneath that sketch is a Cavafy poem, “In the Dull Village”:
In the dull village where he works —
as a clerk in a shop;
very young — and where he waits
for two or three months to go by
another two or three months till business slows down,
to go then to the town and throw himself immediately
into its life and entertainment,
In the dull village where he waits —
he went to bed love-sick tonight,
his whole youth afire with fleshly passion,
beautiful youth beautiful in intensity.
And pleasure came to him in sleep; he sees
and has the body he desires in his sleep.
— C. P. Cavafy
Further background on the exhibit is here.
It runs through this Sunday, May 14.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
ATOP: Daily Post Photo Challenge, 15 March 2017
March 17, 2017 at 11:50 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, destinations, Places, plans, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Cassandra Clare, England, exhibits, Fridays, history, inspiration, London, memories, postaday, postaweek, The Infernal Devices, Victorian Steampunk, Wordpress, World War II, YA
For this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge, ATOP, self goes back to the pictures she took of a London church she visited in 2015. She’s not sure if she’s interpreting the theme correctly (“a view from the top”) but she’ll post this anyway.
Two years ago, self was on a Shadowhunters reading binge. She took The Infernal Devices trilogy with her to the UK, and decided to plan her days around places cited in the books.
In her website, author Cassandra Clare says she used St. Bride’s near Fleet Street as the titular setting for the Shadowhunters Academy. And self did get to see this church. And it was one of the most beautiful churches she had ever seen.
You can see an exhibit on the history of St. Bride’s in the crypt. The spire was designed by Christopher Wren. Building began in 1671 and was completed in 1703:
Rendering of the Steeple of St. Bride’s (aka “The Church of Journalists”) Just Off Fleet Street
The steeple was destroyed during the Blitz (see newspaper headline below).
World War II London Newspaper
A Modern Rendering of the Christopher Wren Steeple
The steeple has been rebuilt; you can see it from the top floor of the National Portrait Gallery. It’s a long, slim needle that feels surprisingly at home with the modernistic buildings surrounding it.
Self returned to St. Bride’s last year, with poet Joan McGavin. The main space was closed for refurbishing, but the crypt was still open to the public. While Joan went down to look at the exhibit, self chatted with a clergyman, who asked what brought her to St. Bride’s. And she said, Shadowhunters. He was highly amused.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Wish: The Daily Post Photo Challenge, 8 March 2017
March 9, 2017 at 10:55 am (Artists and Writers, Food and Drink, postaday, Recommended, Sayings, Traveling)
Tags: exhibits, inspiration, museums, postaday, postaweek, wisdom, Wordpress
- There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. — Jonas Salk, quoted in The Daily Post
March is a very significant month in the calendar year. It represents the beginning of spring, hope, everything. Self is in Ireland, so she’s full of hope right now!
Here are three signs, all food-related, which she saw when she visited the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, last month. The current exhibit (through mid-September 2017) is Yummm! The History, Fantasy, and Future of Food.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
