Engineer's Daughter

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Through June 2 - The Office at the San Jose ICA

Through July 8 - Renegade Humor at the San Jose Museum of Art

Recently closed - Jonathan Runcio: Blue Turns to Grey at Ratio 3

Through tonight - C.R.E.A.M. at Art Micro Patronage

Jeremy Novak at Headlands Center for the Arts

Private Collections tour of the Niles/Pereira Collection

Bitter Seeds at the SF International Film Festival

Recently closed - Rapture Ready: Space Planning and Aesthetics at The Popular Workshop

The Secret Life of Mushrooms at Southern Exposure

Recently closed - Leigh Wells: Remains at Gregory Lind Gallery

Recently closed - Robert Arneson: Self-Portraits in Bronze at Brian Gross Fine Art

Through June 24 - Super 8 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Digital Inquiry: Forms of Knowledge in the Age of New Media presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media

I did just move to Oakland, but as you can see I've been up to a few other things besides.  I finally have internet in my new apartment and look forward to getting back to something resembling a reliable blogging pattern.  Here's to fresh starts and clean slates.

posting notice

I'm in the middle of moving my life from Berkeley to a beautiful Art Deco apartment complex in Oakland, so posting here will be sparse while I use every spare moment when I'm not at work or asleep to sort through and pack up 10+ years of accumulated crap.  I'll be back soon with many new adventures to report.  Meanwhile if you missed my conversation with Margaret Tedesco and Suzanne Stein on KUSF last weekend you can find it archived here.

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'His Master's Voice', India, 1960s

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

sound of noise

Those wacky Swedes.  Back in 2001 Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson concocted a short film called Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers in which the titual sextet of drummers use everything they can find in an apartment to make their anarchic brand of music.  Now Simonsson and Nilsson have kept the same percussionists and expanded their concept to an entire city in the full-length Sound of Noise, a heady mixture of inventive sound and dry Scandinavian humor.  There's actually a plot this time involving a music-averse policeman who is out to capture the band of guerrilla musicians, but pay that little mind.  Instead revel in the musical pieces like "Money 4 U, Honey" performed in a bank and "Electric Love" that takes place high on some power lines. 

See also:

• Sound of Noise trailer
• Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers

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Photograph of the scent of a rose by Devaux-Breitenbach (from Verve), France, 1939

public service announcement

 

Tune in roundabouts 2:30 pm this Saturday, April 7, to hear Suzanne Stein and me in conversation with Margaret Tedesco on her KUSF in Exile show.  There will be music; there will be poetry.

 

KUSF IN EXILE
Roll Call: Bay Area Arts and Culture

Dj Margaret Tedesco
Saturday 2-4pm


Tune into KUSF IN EXILE Live through iTunes in college / university category
and later in the archives at www.kusf-archives.com