Keiko Fukuda, a Trailblazer in Judo, Dies at 99

More from the NY Times HERE

Gardens of Alcatraz

Living Architecture

Green Roofing around SF with Patrick Blanc's living wall at the Drew School and Renzo Piano's Academy of Science.

Summer

Actually feeling like summer here...NMc jamming

Jun Kaneko

Selected Works, Rena Bransten Gallery, June 7-July 21

Terminal Two

 More on the show HERE

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Super lucky today to meet and chat with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and hear him read a poem recently published in The Nation. Truly moving. Felinghetti is the 2012 recipient of the MacAgy Distinguished Achievement Award from The San Francisco Art Institute. Click HERE to hear.

Sunday Streets

SF closes down the mission to autos for a day of drifting. Sunday Streets HERE

Garage Days

Neighborhood garage stylings

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.

Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art

Sept 16- Jan 8, 2012, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

More HERE

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."

Ron Nagle "Hamilltoe"

Opens tonight at Rena Bransten Gallery, which coincides with a new album entitled "She Lies" and a monograph, "Nagle, Ron".

Dirk Van Saene

Fashion designer Dirk Van Saenes ceramic collection tonight at The Yellow Building, Minnesota at 22nd street. More Van Saene HERE

D.I interiors

Interiors of David Irelands 500 Capp Street. Oral History HERE

Manongs, Some Doors and a Bouquet of Crates

Carlos Villa, Opens August 17 at the Mission Cultural Center. 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.

Neveslon at Pace '77

Nice catalogue with sculptural folding cover from Louise Nevelson at Pace 1977.  Picked up from Press:Works on Paper, a new shop in the mission HERE

Mac Selby

Ben Ospital of Modern Appealing Clothing gets the Selby once over. MAC HERE