Engineer's Daughter

sanford biggers & marcus samuelsson

If you have a spare hour and 17 minutes I recommend watching this chat that took place between artist Sanford Biggers and chef Marcus Samuelsson at the Hammer last summer.  I'll let the museum do the formal introductions:

Sanford Biggers is an installation, video, and performance artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide. Biggers has won several awards including the Creative Capital Project Grant, a New York Percent for the Arts Commission, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in performance art/multidisciplinary work. He is Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Visual Arts.  Marcus Samuelsson is an award-winning chef, author, and food activist. Samuelsson is noted for defeating 21 fellow chefs on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, winning $115,000 for the UNICEF Tap Project. He is the chef and owner of Red Rooster Harlem in New York City and his books include Aquavit and the New Scandinavian Cuisine, The Soul of a New Cuisine, New American Table, and his latest, Yes, Chef: A Memoir.

An inspired pairing for sure, and Biggers and Samuelsson are longtime friends besides.  Watching their wide-ranging conversation online is the next best thing to having been there in person.

See also:

• Sanford Biggers
• Marcus Samuelsson

agenda 01.23.13

Thursday, January 24:

• David O'Brien, Andrew Benson + Tamara Albaitis in Pixilated Drift at Johansson Projects
• Grale Live: The Saddest Music in the World: Tenth Anniversary Celebration at the Pacific Film Archive
• How to Move a Mountain at Southern Exposure
• Troller, Thousand Foot Whale Claw, Chasms, Black Jeans, Believe at The Lab
• SIX: UC Berkeley First Year MFA Exhibition at Worth Ryder Art Gallery
• That's what I figure: Four Bay Area Image Makers at Kondos Gallery
• John-Mark Ikeda at Spare Change Artist Space
• 6 Women Poets at Meridian Gallery
• Strange Sinema 60 at Oddball Films
• The Walkmen, Father John Misty at The Fillmore
• Autumn Sky, Jonah Matranga, Sentinel at Red House Studios
• Ken Stringfellow (Posies, Big Star) plus The Maldives and Will Sprott at Brick & Mortar Music Hall

Friday, January 25:

• Paul Kos: Allegories and Metaphors at the San Francisco Art Institute
• Object Oriented: Janiszewska, Lorch-Miller, Pitt at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
• Stillsuit / Styrofoam Sanchez / Little Debbie / V.E X. Xanaxax at Life Changing Ministries
• Adam Friedman: Space and Time, and Other Mysterious Aggregations at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
• Friday Nights @ OMCA Launch
• San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Work by Michael Damm, Julia Goodman and Jeff Hantman
• Happiness Is... at Montalvo Arts Center Project Space Gallery
• Carnal Cartoons at Oddball Films
• The Walkmen, Father John Misty at The Fillmore
• Blackalicious at The New Parish

Saturday, January 26:

• Molly Springfield, The Marginalia Archive at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
• Stop/Motion at Interface Gallery
• Wovenhand at Bottom of the Hill

Monday, January 28:

• You Are Not A Loan: A Benefit for Strike Debt Bay Area at the Roxie Theatre

Tuesday, January 29:

• San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Artist Talk: Michael Damm, Julia Goodman and Jeff Hantman
• Detective, Tall Sheep, JAJA at Hotel Utah

Wednesday, January 30:

• Silence and Rudolf de Crignis / MATRIX 245 at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Take Me Away at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
• Bill Berkson and Stephanie Young: Poetry Reading in the Gallery at Brian Gross Fine Art
• Local Natives at The Fox

agenda 01.02.13

Thursday, January 3:

• CONGRATULATIONS! with Tauba Auerbach at Will Brown
• Sentinel at The Starry Plough

Friday, January 4:

• SHE WORLD: Ursula Brookbank at Krowswork
• Backwash: New Work by Pete Hickok at Aggregate Space
• In The Box Beneath The City and Other Projects at Alter Space
• Speak Your Peace at SOMArts
• Art Murmur at Johansson Projects

Saturday, January 5:

• Excuses + Diesel Dudes + Believe + Horsebladder at Rock Paper Scissors
• Marissa Nadler at The Chapel

Sunday, January 6:

• Multiple Stimuli Overload at Subterranean Arthouse

Monday, January 7:

• The Projected Self: Performance-Based Videos from the Media Arts Collection at SFMOMA
• Ovens at The Knockout

Tuesday, January 8:

• Breaking News: A One-Night-Only Radical Collaboration at SOMArts
• A Benefit for The Riley Center: Tender Buttons/Bitter Fruit/No Bone at The Knockout
• Takin It Back Tuesday at Double Dutch

Wednesday, January 9:

• Bawdy Storytelling's "The 7 Dirty Sins" at Verdi Club
• Rosamunde Oakland Grand Opening Party

agenda 11.28.12

My picks for the next week:

Thursday, November 29:

• Artist Talk & Reading for A WELL STIRS
• First Look Dinner at Headlands Center for the Arts
• Somewhere in the Fold at The Popular Workshop
• Lecture by David Goldblatt at SFMOMA
• Strange Sinema 58: Bizarre Cinema Histories at Oddball Films
• Mission Creek Oakland Presents: Believe, Teenage Sweater, and LESSONS! at the Uptown

Friday, November 30:

• Queer Punks in Conversation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Happy Hour/Closing Reception for X Libris at Root Division
• 2012 Annual Holiday Sale at Creativity Explored
• Fairy Tale Frenzy at Oddball Films
• Duane Pitre, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Jesse Sparhawk, and Zachary James Watkins at The Lab

Saturday, December 1:

• Mark Baugh-Sasaki artist talk at Krowswork
• Matt Connors :: Ian McDonald :: Gregory Lind at [ 2nd floor projects ]
• Come Out & Play SF Festival at SOMArts
• Johansson Projects presents Rachel Kaye and Opal Dust featuring Casey Watson
• Taro Hattori, James Sansing at Swarm Gallery
• The Bay Brewed at Public Works
• Simian Mobile Disco at Mezzanine

Sunday, December 2:

• E@RLY: Ikue Mori with Ken Ueno at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Koinonia Experimental Music Festival at the Subterranean Arthouse
• Jonathan Richman at the Great American Music Hall

Monday, December 3:

• No Babies , Ni-Hao! (Japan) and T.I.T.S. + DJ Paul Paul at the Knockout
• Death Grips at Slim's

Tuesday, December 4:

• Werner Herzog at CCA
• The News at SOMArts

Wednesday, December 5:

• The Babies, Twin Steps, Younger Lovers, Wet Spots at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records
• San Francisco Olympians Festival III: Titans vs. Olympians
• Opening Reception for In Formation at the Berkeley Central Arts Passage
• Sufjan Stevens at the Great American Music Hall

What did I miss?  Let me know in the comments!

concinnity

Please rest assured I'll be posting about my recent trip to Istanbul quite soon.  But this evening I'm also thinking of Chicago, probably because I've had a lot of friends heading there recently, and of when I was there last fall with my brother.  We hung out in the sun in Wicker Park, ate huitlacoche tacos (I was in the midst of a corn smut obsession) and drank margaritas at Big Star Taqueria, watched the Cubs actually win a game at Wrigley Field.  Fall in Chicago is hard to beat.

openharvest japan

The Headlands spring season is really starting to heat up in this their 30th anniversary year, and they kicked things off with a bang at the OPENharvest Japan event last Thursday.  Ramen swimming with fresh vegetables, art installations (that's Anandamayi Arnold's amazing life-size paper tuna pictured above), a Japanese whisky bar...All this and more to commemorate local chef/artist collective OPENrestaurant's expedition to Japan in the fall of 2011.  During their time there they visited farms and restaurants and breweries and markets, made food with the locals, and investigated the aftermath of the tsunami and its resultant nuclear disaster.  Many artifacts and photos from their trip were on display in the Headlands gym for the milling crowd to examine, while bowl after bowl of steaming ramen was handed out of a makeshift kitchen to be eaten sitting cross-legged on the floor with new friends and old.  You know, just another magical night at Headlands.

See also:

• Headlands Center for the Arts
• OPENharvest Japan
• OPENrestaurant

agenda 09.07.11

Two full weeks of events tonight, since I'll be out of town next week.  I'll try to update if anything crops up on my radar before I go too.  Because I love you guys.

Thursday, September 8:

• "Everybody's happy nowadays." opening reception at Mina Dresden Gallery
• Peter Daltrey (UK Kaleidoscope) + Kelley Stoltz + Bart Davenport + Asteroid #4 at Cafe Du Nord
• The Twelfth Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival at Brava Theater Center

Friday, September 9:

• Rex Ray at Gallery 16
• Terry Riley at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Experimental Notations at Royal NoneSuch Gallery and MacArthur b arthur
• Sabertooth Zombie record release show + Creatures, Prizehog, more at 924 Gilman

Saturday, September 10:

• Mission Creek: Free Concert in McLaren Park
• Keeping an Eye on Surveillance Opening Reception at the Performance Art Institute
• Young and Free: Contemporary Australian Street Artists at 941 Geary
• Battalion Of Saints, Attitude Adjustment, Visual Discrimination, Oppressed Logic at 924 Gilman
• Ikue Mori - final concert of David Tudor Residency at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College
• Ninjasonik at Bhopal
• Chick Habit at the Ruby Room

Sunday, September 11:

• Soul Food Farm Work Days in 3 parts- Week 1
• Enough War, We Declare Peace at the Golden Gate Bridge
• The Vibrators, BOATS!, Emily's Army, Bobby Joe Ebola, Ol' Cheeky Bastards at 924 Gilman
• Marco Eneidi Quartet/Thomas Dimuzio/With Strings at Amnesia

Monday, September 12:

• RTX + Ty Segall + Heavy Cream at the New Parish

Tuesday, September 13:

• Medusa's Mirror: Fears, Spells & Other Transfixed Positions at Pro Arts

Friday, September 16:

• Create: The Artists Are Present at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Opening Reception for Todd Bura and Madiha Siraj at Triple Base
• Connected - Theatrical Opening Weekend in the S.F. Bay Area
• Rorschach (NJ), Brainoil, No Statik, Needles at 924 Gilman
• The People: San Francisco at Z Space
• Official SJMADE Pre-Party at South First Street Billiards
• Victory and Associates - Record Release with Repeat After Me, Sister Grizzly at Brick and Mortar Music Hall
• The Album Leaf at the New Parish
• SHAKE! Presents Magic Christian Live In Concert at Milk Bar

Saturday, September 17:

• SJMADE with SJEATS, Fall 2011 at San Pedro Square Market
• Rock Make Street Festival 2011 at Treat Ave @ 18th Street
• BBQ w/Kitchen's Floor (AUS), Fat History Month (BOS), Waste Rig, GAZE at 3137 Telegraph
• Coarse Drawn Heart and other stories: new work by Tim Svenonius at Truesilver Gallery
• Zounds (UK), Swann Danger, Fucktard, Bite, Falcon A at 924 Gilman

Sunday, September 18:

• Godwaffle Noise Pancakes does Electronic Puppenhorten at The Lab

Monday, September 19:

• Theater Pub 2.9: Home-Fair Lanford Wilson's Roommate Plays at Cafe Royale

Tuesday, September 20:

• Bob Mould in conversation with Shepard Fairey at Herbst Theatre

Wednesday, September 21:

• Organ Spectacular at The Lab

agenda 08.24.2011

My picks for your next week in the Bay Area (and beyond)

Friday, August 26:

• No Babies / Whitman - US Tour
• Sounds Of The Underground: Punk N' Ska Fest- 3 Days at 924 Gilman
• The Men (ny), Milk Music (olympia), Mothercountry Motherfuckers at Revolution Cafe
• The Usuals present Park Bench Collective
• High Castle record release / tour kick off show at Jam City
• International Freakout A Gogo at First Church Of The Buzzard

Saturday, August 27:

• OPENeducation by OPENrestaurant at the Berkeley Art Museum

Sunday, August 28:

• Godwaffle Noise Pancakes at The Lab
• aWay station: An Afternoon with Headlands' Artist Donald Fortescue at Headlands Center for the Arts
• Zoo, Spencer Owen, the Comfort Creatures (...and more?) at Merchant's Saloon

Tuesday, August 30:

• DJ Jesse Luscious- Power Pop, Punk, and so much more at the Mel-O-Dee
• New Groove Tuesday with DJs Spaced Ghost and Psychic Hands at Laszlo Bar SF

Wednesday, August 31:

• Key West @ Mama Buzz Cafe

agenda 07.27.11

My compendium of excellent events this weekend, just for you

Thursday, July 28:

• Comedy at Escapist Comics
• Mind Cemetery/Sister Fucker Tour Kick Off + Cops & Waste Rig at Three Doors Down
• SFWAR Benefit at Lipo Lounge

Friday, July 29:

• Sister Fucker/ Mind Cemetery 4 Day Tour in SoCal and AZ
• The Book: Free Closing Reception at SOMArts
• Common Eider King Eider+Paul Clipson, Bill Orcutt, lazyboy at The Lab

Saturday, July 30:

• Doggie Ice Cream Social at Alpha Pet Supply & The Wild Bird's Nest
• Sneaky's Summertime Social at Sneaky's BBQ
• Whiskey Waxing at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Hands Up: Drawing Sesh and Talk at RockPaperScissors
• Ringworm, Nails, New Lows, Crucified, Deep Cover at 924 Gilman
• NO/HO/MO, American Splits, Prison Library, Sunny Reaper & Meat Pressure at Jam City

agenda 06.29.2011

My picks for the week ahead, including some long-weekend fun:

Thursday, June 30:

• Calvin Johnson, Joey Casio, Bam!Bam! at Escapist Comics
• Japanther at the Old Compound
• REDSHIFT premieres Arctic Sounds + Jack O' The Clock at Brick and Mortar Music Hall

Friday, July 1:

• Local Label Faire with Moveable Feast at the San Mateo County Event Center
• Guilty By Association, Go Time!, Lazerwolf, Protest Authority at 924 Gilman
• Nucular Aminals/.Psychic Feline/.Dadfag/.Joey Casio at 1709 Goss

Saturday, July 2:

• Killing The Dream's last show w/The Carrier/All Teeth/Dcoi at 924 Gilman
• Cello/voice to shake/wake the soul at the Starry Plough
• Saturday Night Soul Party at the Elbo Room

Sunday, July 3:

• Second Sanctuary Poetry Reading - David Brazil and Sara Larsen at Martina }{ Johnston Gallery
• Harm's Way, Xibalba, Buried at Birth, Vital Nerve at 924 Gilman

Monday, July 4:

• Sissisters, Brandon Nickell, Wrong Hole, Holly Herndon, Concrete Shiva at The Lab

Wednesday, July 6:

• Jack Leamy Tournesol Award Exhibition at the Luggage Store Gallery