Michael Asher 1943-2012

More HERE and HERE

Shobu

One of our favorite visits in Kagoshima. Keep up the good work Shobu! Learn more about their amazing school HERE and their Nui Project HERE

Some History

BBC Radio's podcast A History of the World in 100 Objects is well worth a listen. All 100 chapters about 15 minutes each are available HERE

Michael Arntz

Top image courtesy of Los Angeles Modern Auctions, upcoming May auction HERE
Bottom images from Michael Arntz website HERE
former Arntz post HERE

Evening. Thanks Again.

Flipped though a nice collection of Whole Earth Catalogues today at the Prelinger Archive, including a few well loved. Previous Prelinger days HERE

Mary Tuthill Lindheim

Mary Tuthill Lindheim (1912-1994). From recent exhibition at Marin Contemporary. More HERE

Alexandre Arrechea

Lecture Tonight at SFAI 4:30 PM

Interdisciplinary artist Alexandre Arrechea was born in Cuba, and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. He was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in 2003 to pursue his career as a solo artist. His work often deals with loss of privacy, fragility, memory, and the failure of control and power.

Arrechea has participated in numerous group exhibitions at such venues as the Museum of Art and Design, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, China; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; and Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany. He represents Cuba at the 54th Venice Biennale, 2011, and has also exhibited at the Havana Biennial 2009 and 2000; the 2005 Braziers International, Oxfordshire, England; the Venice Biennale 2005; the Liverpool Biennial 2004; the Shanghai Biennial 2002; and the Sao Paulo Biennial 2002. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; and Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba, among others. Arrechea was recently selected to be the Spring 2013 public sculpture artist for the Park Avenue Mall Project. He lives and works in Spain.

Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful

"Keiko Fukuda is the highest ranking woman in the history of judo. She is the last living student who connects back to judo founder, Jigoro Kano. Fukuda will be 98 on April 12, 2011 and is an amazing inspiration to all."

Sensei Keiko Fukuda still teaches at the dojo she founded at the corner of Castro and 26th St in Noe Valley. Her motto: "Be gentle, kind, and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically."

George Kuchar 1942-2011

more HERE

Tree Wolf

On site milling from Berkeley's Tree Wolf . All of this wood is from one 30 year old Redwood that was cut down on SFAI's campus, and is being used by my new class "sustainable studio" to make benches for the school. The milling process is pretty insane, a jig is attached to a chainsaw that runs horizontal through the lumber. According to the wolf, the wood will take 2 years to dry.

Joseon Buncheong Ware

Now at the Met. More HERE and HERE

AG

Arthur Gonzalez at work during his demo in the studio today, pulling out a 30 minute head built directly in the Native American tradition with a Puki. More about Arthur HERE