For 46 years, this soulful oddity has been San Francisco s best-kept musical secret
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Jazz piano melodies and San Francisco street recordings bounce around the room like ping pong balls from speaker to speaker.Mariah Tiffany/ Special to SFGATE
In the Audium’s pitch-dark concert space, sound is the only color. Since 1975, this theater hidden off Bush Street in Polk Gulch has quietly and sometimes loudly tried to redefine how San Francisco thinks about music.
The humble performance space feels like a college lecture hall crossed with a mid-century modern rec room. Speakers are everywhere; at last official count, there were 176. Speakers of various shapes and sizes dangle from the ceiling like stalactites. They re also tucked underneath grates in the floor and hidden in the walls. Audium has used the same chairs for 46 years, zig-zag metal frames with plush red cushions. For COVID-19 purposes, there’s only 11 chairs, spread far apart. I sit down, the light
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William Wiley, ‘I Wish I Could Have Known Earlier that You Have All the Time You ll Ever Need Right Up to the Day You Die,’ 1970; Ink and watercolor on paper.
(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; photo by Mary Ellen Hawkins)
William T. Wiley had many names over six decades as an artist. There were his alter egos Mr. Unatural and Zenry. Critics called him the Zen Cowboy, the Metaphysical Funk Monk, the Dude Ranch Dadaist and Huckleberry Duchamp handles that conjured California’s brew of folly, spirituality and rugged individualism. Few other West Coast artists inspired so many nicknames. One could chalk this up to Wiley’s thick mustache, blue jeans, boots and bolo tie. But there was something more elusive that aroused the image of a folk hero and that needed some kind of special name. He worked against the grain in a way that was knowingly oblivious, like someone slightly out of time or in possession of ancient wisdom. For many he was a sort of art world frontie
Allon Schoener, 95, Dies; Curator Caught in Furor Over âHarlemâ Show
His âHarlem on My Mindâ exhibit at the Met museum in 1969 drew protests for not including works by Black artists. But since then itâs been reconsidered.
Allon Schoener, second from left, with staff members of the âHarlem on My Mindâ exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969. With him, from left, were Reginald McGhee, Lelia Nelson and Donald Haynes. Credit.Sam Falk/The New York Times
April 23, 2021Updated 4:27 p.m. ET
Allon Schoener, the curator who organized the Metropolitan Museum of Artâs infamous âHarlem on My Mindâ show in 1969, which caused protests that stopped traffic on Fifth Avenue because it didnât include any paintings or sculptures by Black artists, died on April 8 in Los Angeles. He was 95.
Henry H. Gutterson, Supervising Architect of St. Francis Wood Truthful to the many styles and variation of styles as reflects the people of California.
by Richard Brandi, Copyright 2007 Henry H. Gutterson, Supervising Architect of St. Francis Wood -
The career of San Francisco architect Henry Gutterson spans the first half of the 20th Century. Beginning in 1905, when he graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley to his death in 1954, Gutterson s 50-year career most closely relates to the Beaux-Arts, Bay Area Arts and Crafts, and Academic Eclecticism periods. He attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts but was also influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and he became one of the acknowledged practitioners of the early Bay Area Style. What set Gutterson and other young architects in the Bay Area style apart from others in the U.S. was, the peculiar way of using historical forms and details, the complexity of forms and spaces, miniaturizati
Gallery Wendi Norris announces publication of Alice Rahon s first monograph
Alice Rahon, La noche de Tepoztlan, 1964. Oil and sand on canvas, 27 1/2 x 33 7/8 inches (69.9 x 86 cm). Photo: Courtesy Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- Gallery Wendi Norris announced their publication of Alice Rahon, the first monograph on the French-Mexican painter-poet. This 128-page book is illustrated with highlights of her artwork from 1939 through the 1970s, forming a tangible, albeit limited, representation of her oeuvre.
Alice Rahon includes an introduction by Wendi Norris as well as new research explored in three ground-breaking essays. The worlds foremost expert on Rahons life and work, Tere Arcq, proffers ten, formative touchstones to greater understand Rahons creative output in Alice Rahon: Tracing the Marvelous. Her essay has been updated and translated from Spanish in its entirety from its original publication in 2009, on the occasion of Rahons solo exhi