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Carlie Wilmans at the David Ireland House on Capp Street Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 in San Francisco. Photo: Nathaniel Y. Downes, The Chronicle
When longtime arts philanthropist Carlie Wilmans first stepped into artist David Ireland’s house at 500 Capp Street in the Mission District in 2008, she had no idea she would spend 13 years of her life and more than $6 million in service of its preservation.
Beginning in the 1970s, Ireland, a well-known sculptor and conceptual artist, had turned the San Francisco space into a canvas for his site-specific installations, work that could have been lost without intervention.
Thursday, May 6
7:00 p.m. EDT
Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the photography program at Parsons School of Design at The New School, is pleased to present an artist talk with
Dionne Lee.
Through the use of photography, collage, video, and sculpture, Dionne Lee explores ideas of power and personal history in relation to the American landscape. Lee’s relationship with the natural world is a thread that is carried throughout her work. “I’m interested in the history of landscape photography and history, and authorship, and who has historically captured these types of images,” states Lee. In this artist talk, she will discuss her practice and the complex topics addressed in her work.
Al Young, a Berkeley resident and the 2005 California poet laureate. Credit: Michael Young
Al Young, a nationally renowned novelist, essayist, screenwriter, professor and poet whom Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed as the state poet laureate in 2005, died April 17, two years after suffering a major stroke. He was 81.
Young, a long-time Berkeley resident whose deep, melodic voice was as smooth as the blues music he adored, saw his work become a permanent feature in the city’s landscape. His poem,
Who I Am In Twilight, is embedded in the Addison Street Poetry Walk, right in front of Freight & Salvage. Berkeley also proclaimed Feb. 5, 2013, as Al Young Day.
Housing guide: Where to live in San Francisco (east)
From North Beach to the Mission District, this is the city s exhilirating urban heart
San Francisco (East)
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By Leilani Marie Labong |
April 14, 2021 10:00 AM
Why do people move to San Francisco? Is it for the singular landscape, all dramatic hills and breathtaking coastline, the perfect topography for fog to cling to or completely engulf? Is it for the chance to live in proximity to that world-famous bridge, a monumental feat of engineering in International Orange, a gateway for people and ideas from all over the world? Perhaps it’s the city’s history as the birthplace of counterculture after all, progressive views in politics, the arts and technology are constantly percolating here, brewing entire movements and new industries.