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- I was thrilled to hear the Cantor was getting the Morris Hirshfield exhibition that received such rave reviews at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, and it does not disappoint. Hirshfield was a self-taught artist who came to painting late in life for a brief but prolific career, and his animals and nude ladies are utterly bewitching.
- Meanwhile Hansol Jung's Wolf Play at Shotgun is also well worth your time as it tells the story of a young Korean adoptee who processes his feelings by imagining he is more lupine than human. As always Shotgun does some really stunning tricks with the staging, and the cast also features some of our local best.
- I swung by Minnesota Street on Saturday for the final day of their beautiful group exhibition The Deeper We Sunk in Dreams, curated by Lexygius Sanchez Calip and featuring recent work from 2020 SF Art Institute artists whose term was interrupted by pandemic and who stayed local after the school unceremoniously closed. The show is a tribute to the artists' persistence and an elegy to an institution that nurtured so many important ideas. And while I was in the building I had to pop into Hashimoto Contemporary to visit Lorien Stern's ceramic dinosaurs in her Old Friends show, because who doesn't love cheerful ceramic dinosaurs?
- I also leapt at the chance to support Maui and hear some amazing Hawaiian musicians besides at the Freight & Salvage Sunday evening, at a benefit concert that featured Mahealani Uchiyama, Patrick Landeza (who also emceed), Faith Ako, and Steven Espaniola. There was a lot of laughter and a few tears and some truly gorgeous hula alongside the music, and in the end the audience raised over $25,000 to send to Lahaina.