The concrete and the tangible become abstract.
tina modotti
Library Collage Art
Salford Tower Blocks No. 1
Salford Tower Blocks No. 5
- Eccles Library No. 2
- Eccles Library No. 3
- Eccles Library No. 1
These are created by salfordskyline. There is no information about the artist, but I found her because of this fine photographer of oddity, strange love, and memory–or at least that is what I think of.
some good things do come outta Jersey
Amiri Baraka
In a rare West Coast appearance, poet, playwright, essayist and political activist Amiri Baraka will deliver a historic speech on the nation’s first African-American President, Barack Obama, at the Koret Auditorium in the Main Library, on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 1 p.m.
Baraka’s presentation is titled, “We Are Already in the Future! Barack Obama: Year One.” In 2008, during the primary and general election cycles, Bara¬ka continued to surprise, delight and provoke his friends and enemies with a series of rigorous, inventive and powerfully deciphering essays on then-candidate Obama. With this unique event, Baraka will revisit those essays, and bring his keen, and always original, interpretation of the Obama Presidency in its first year.
A transitional figure from the Beat Generation and Civil Rights Era, Baraka is also known as the father of the Black Arts Movement. Baraka is one of the true giants of international poetry and a towering presence in the U.S. The talk will be immediately followed by a discussion with poet and literary event organizer Justin Desmangles, and continue with an audience Q & A.
San Francisco Public Library
Sunday, Nov. 8 at 1 p.m
Main Library, Lower Level
Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St.
National Hate Art Week Propaganda
NATIONAL ART HATE WEEK has been instigated for the disruptive betterment of culture.
2009 propaganda
NATIONAL ART HATE WEEK is a call for direct action against the mass acceptance of art as a phantom economy for the smug manipulative elite and their ensuing grip of control over culture as a tool for mediated emotion, market lead non-critical homogeny, and boring popularism.
NATIONAL ART HATE WEEK presents a unified front of non-unified creative individuals against all that is despicable and loved by the people. We oppose the deliberate socio-economic strategy to make us all complicit in our own idiocy. We oppose the affront of state endorsed auto-cryptic balderdash and oppose the ruffians who have been pulled from the ghetto and polished up for elevated status and easy consumption by the masses.
Punk Passage San Francisco First Wave Punk 1977-1981
In what other city can the public library have a display of vintage dildos on one floor and on the next an exhibit chronicling SFs punk scene from 77-81? San Francisco baby, you got to love it.
Punk Passage: San Francisco First Wave Punk 1977-1981
The Punk Passage: San Francisco First Wave Punk features 45 black and white portraits and live music photographs of original punk innovators by the San Francisco-based photographer Ruby Ray. Working for the seminal punk magazine, Search and Destroy, Ray began chronicling the City’s punk scene in 1977.
Original punk rock ‘zines, flyers and posters from 1977 to 1981, along with additional articles and ephemera from the Library’s Art, Music and Recre¬ation Center Collection and from the Little Magazine Collection, Book Arts & Special Collections, also will be on view, sharing the rich historical roots of punk rock from the center of the San Francisco artistic movement. The exhibition continues through Dec. 6.
There are several events in connection with the exhibit, check it out.
Richard Avedon at SFMOMA
Richard Avedon will be opening at the SFMOMA this Saturday and running until November 29th.
My favorite Avedon, Slaughterhouse worker on the kill floor Omaha, NE 1979
Boyd Fortin, Thirteen Years Old Rattlesnake Skinner, Sweet Water, Texas, March 10, 1979
Cat Power (Chan Marshall) musician, New York, July 28, 2003
Let it Bleed
Wartime
Leningrad St. Petersburg merge
A chronicle of time passages bled together with a thread of continuum. Found on Kosmograd: Postcards from the edge of the 1000-mile city
Terry Richardson makes me wet.
flag
hard at work
head of state
The header for this blog is also a Terry Richardson image. He is the perfect satirist for this fucked up country, the embodiment of the best and the worst of American culture. I love it.
Page and Eloise Smith
Founders of the Arts in Corrections Program in 1977
The couple died two days apart from each other. Their story is fascinating, encouraging, creative, and inspiring. Eloise was fundamental in bringing arts to the California prison system, along with her husband Page who is a co-founder of the William James Association also fundamental to maintaining art and humanity within our community both outside and for those living behind bars.
“that mysterious life-enhancing process we call the arts, a realm in which patient application and vivid imagination so often produce magic.”
~Eloise Smith
