Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
I’ve appreciated and admired Frank Stella’s abstract art for many years, but the de Young Museum’s exciting retrospective enriched my understanding of Stella as an artist and a man. A smaller continuation of an exhibition ...
David E. MorenoTheaterSan Francisco,
“Rainbow Logic Arm in Arm with Remy Charlip” is Seth Eisen’s two-year labor of love and homage to his beloved mentor and friend. Remy Charlip was an unstoppable multitalented gay artist, dancer, performer, illustrator, costumer, and more. He ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
It has been a good fifteen years since I’ve had the pleasure of seeing the inside of Oakland’s Paramount Theatre, a veritable monument to the Art Deco era. For me on this Day of the Dead evening, it rattles with ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
"The Embodiment Project," directed by Nicole Klaymoon, brings together dancers, singers, actors and lecturers to focus on the very contemporary subject that “Black Lives Matter.” They are all exuberant performers, skilled in their craft and devoted to their subject. ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
Ritual Exuberance
Krissy Keefer, the director of Dance Brigade has staged “The Great Liberation…” at least twice since 1999. This time, with a cast of young, exuberant and very skilled dancers, it is celebrated in an hours (or so) ...
A San Francisco artist never happy in just one medium.
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
This fascinating first retrospective of the diverse oeuvre of Bruce Conner (1933-2008) contains more than 250 objects in many media — painting, film, video, assemblage, drawing, collage, print, photography, photogram and performance, which were mostly created in San Francisco over ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterSan Francisco,
Usually a Tom Stoppard play is an intellectual treat, but “The Hard Problem” is part treat and part treatment. Perhaps I over-anticipated the renowned playwright’s first new play in nine years since I’m such a fan of his ...
Janos GerebenArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
The two great Sanskrit epic poems - "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata" - and Divali, the Hindu festival of lights, are treasured in most of Asia, and they have a universal appeal. Divali this year is observed as an official holiday on ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
Past/Present
Deborah Hay “belongs to a group of choreographers who were behind the Judson Church Movement in New York in the 1960s, where daily life movements became part of the choreography and untrained people became dancers.” Her background and ...
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
“The Bridge Project: Ten Artists Respond to Locus” is an elaborate and somewhat heady vehicle for a multidisciplinary exchange of San Francisco Bay Area performing artists. It features ten world premieres that all utilize dance legend Trisha Brown’s iconic, “Locus” ...
