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input february 2020

Art

Rashaad Newsome: To Be Real at SFAI Fort Mason Campus

Jamil Hellu: Together at SF Camerawork

Simon Denny: Security Through Obscurity at Altman Siegel

Orlando at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts

女 Nǚ: Other Half of The Sky at B4BEL4B

Harvest the crust from your eyes at /

Life Hacks (and Other Embodied Technologies) at Telematic

Anthony Discenza: No 3: Variations at Et al.

Tomorrow Is Already Here at Headlands

Don't Shoot: An Opus of the Opulence of Blackness at MoAD

Lydia Ourahmane: صرخة شمسية Solar Cry at the Wattis

Lindsey White at Premiere Jr.

Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI at the de Young

Sean McFarland: 4.5 billion years a lifetime at Casemore Kirkeby

Terry Berlier: I am what I am not yet at Stanford Art Gallery

 

Books

Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny - Edward J. Watts

Green - Sam Graham-Felsen

Short Letter, Long Farewell - Peter Handke

The Word of the Speechless - Julio Ramón Ribeyro

Doppelgänger - Daša Drndić

 

Food and Drink

That's My Jam

 

Hikes

Sobrante Ridge/Manzanita/Manzanita Loop/Sobrante Ridge at Sobrante Ridge Botanic Regional Preserve

Antioch Community Park/East Shore/West Shore/Ridge/Lake View Trails at Contra Loma Regional Park

 

Movies

Shazam! - David Sandberg

She-Devil - Susan Seidelman

The Taste of Others - Agnès Jaoui

Look at Me - Agnès Jaoui

The Souvenir - Joanna Hogg

Songs My Brothers Taught Me - Chloé Zhao

Two Friends - Jane Campion

Sweetie - Jane Campion

Missing Link - Chris Butler

An Angel at My Table - Jane Campion

The Piano - Jane Campion

The Portrait of a Lady - Jane Campion

Shadow - Zhang Yimou

 

Music

Ani DiFranco and Jesca Hoop at the Rio

 

Talks

Vietnamese Women Writers of the Diaspora: She Who Has No Masters at the Asian Art Museum

Trinh T. Minh-ha and Isaac Julien at the Wattis

Sadie Barnette at the de Young

 

Theater

Macbeth at Ubuntu

Gatz at Berkeley Rep

input january 2020

Art

Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus [infected] at the de Young

Chanell Stone: Natura Negra at MoAD

Negative Capabilities at Bass & Reiner

Leilah Babirye: Gwe Is Ye Nze, Lekka Mbele Nze (You Are Not Me, Let Me Be Me) at Rebecca Camacho Presents

 

Books

A King Alone - Jean Giono

Solar Bones - Mike McCormack

Agathe; or, The Forgotten Sister - Robert Musil

Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories - Maxim Osipov

Black No More - George Schuyler

 

Hikes

Stream View Trail/Red Tail Hawk Trail/Grey Fox Trail at Bishop Ranch Regional Open Space

 

Movies

Water Lilies - Céline Sciamma

Hail Satan? - Penny Lane

Tomboy - Céline Sciamma

Girlhood - Céline Sciamma

The Juniper Tree - Nietzchka Keene

Dumbo - Tim Burton

Who's That Knocking at My Door - Martin Scorsese

Smithereens - Susan Seidelman

Desperately Seeking Susan - Susan Seidelman

Cookie - Susan Seidelman

Long Shot - Jonathan Levine

 

Music

Charles Amirkhanian at the David Brower Center

Jennifer Koh/Vijay Iyer/Tyshawn Sorey at the Herbst

 

Talks

Lily Sloane – A Shelter for the Psyche & tamara suarez porras – eclipsis, or a line of totality: the solar eclipses of 1979, 2017, and 2024 at the Prelinger Library

 

Theater

Noura at MTC

How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Custom Made

 

Travel

Death Valley

the week that was

Things worth sharing:

1. Helen Thorpe spends a year in a Denver classroom with students learning English as a second language in her remarkable book The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America, and she paints a vivid picture of the United States I still believe in, where we welcome and support the weary.
2. Rose B. Simpson's sculptures are already magical as individual pieces and only grow more powerful in the pairings and groupings in her current show at Jessica Silverman.
3. Speaking of pairings, Drew Heitzler finishes up his year curating two-person shows at slash with a fascinating juxtaposition of Kota Ezawa's Merzbau wallpaper with a capsule of irradiated seeds Sean Raspet will plant in Michigan. Forests of the past, forests to be.
4. Kimberley Acebo Arteche uses technology to beautiful effect to explore her Filipina heritage in the curved body of a pixel, currently on display at Incline Gallery.
5. Craving tea leaf salad or paratha whilst in Noe Valley? Inle Burmese will sort you out, deliciously.
6. Anything at the Recombinant Festival is always worth checking out, and this year they outdid themselves by bringing in Morton Subotnick for a live performance of "Silver Apples of the Moon" with accompanying visuals by Lillevan. I tuned in, I blissed out.
7. Julien Faraut's film John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection is more New Wave punk poem than strict documentary, but any movie that bookends its soundtrack with Sonic Youth and Black Flag is going to be all right by me.
8. I've also been enjoying a surreal journey through the animations of Suzan Pitt thanks to the Criterion Channel. See also this essay about her work by Haden Guest.
9. Stephanie Syjuco gave a great lecture at Mills Wednesday evening on the politics of imaging and representation, and how she's been addressing said topics in her work. Always always love hearing what she's up to.