We suggest you check out the new 50 Years of Bay Area Art and 2010 Seca Awards exhibition at the SFMoMA. You will see this piece by Barry McGee, pieces by Chris Johanson, Tauba Auerbach, Sarah Cain, Rigo 23, and other top Bay artists in recent memory. Chris Finley’s piece was ace as well.
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We do feel it rare to be able to see a traveling exhibition at two consecutive venues. This past summer, we visited Richard Serra’s Drawing at the MET in NYC, but the buzz in the building had been for the Alexander McQueen exhibition, which was gaining momentum and a labyrinth of lines throughout the building. Our experience with Serra was quiet, but dramatic. The work, of course, was strong, and in its simple construction and arrangement, had a unique language all to its own. But we felt it wasn’t given the proper space to breath.
The move to the SFMoMA proves to be the right conditions for which to see Serra’s work. The natural light, the higher ceilings, and bigger rooms allow for Serra’s drawings and sculptures to exist as they should. We always imagined Serra’s sculptures existing in old industrial warehouses, in large, open spaces that put scale and materials in focus. His drawings, some sketches, some full thoughts, some just examinations of the human’s ability to connect with shapes, angles, and simple construction need their own rooms to thrive.
If you have a chance to stop by Serra’s retrospective, we recommend going in the afternoon during the week, with few people interrupting the experience. Its solitary, and its own universe. Just enjoy it. —Raymond Brown / The Citrus Report
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BAND, New York-based artist Adam Pendleton’s touring collaboration with San Francisco band Deerhoof, playing this evening at the city’s Museum of Modern Art. BAND is an “unfolding artwork that re-imagines Jean-Luc Godard’s film Sympathy for the Devil”.
Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/events/1959#ixzz1Y2j4JmUl
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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This may not sound too profound, but this “true story” from the SFMoMA blog tells how some girls go to work at the Lusty Lady in order to pay off those pesky student loans. Who knows, maybe there were some art students at work during Lush’s most recent show at Fifty24SF last night?
Read the whole account here on the SFMoMA blog.
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Good friend of the Citrus Report, and former exhibiting artist at FIFTY24SF Gallery, Jason Jagel, has a nice write-up on the SFMoMA “Open Space” blog right now. We like this exchange:
Jägel describes himself as a “failed comic artist,” noting that his work has twin sources, the “syntax of the comics” and the ragbag of cues and devices learned from his father and the realistic painting he espoused. He’s an ace raconteur, and his own accounts of his practice are so different from the way I’ve imagined them I gape.
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We are debating if we want to fight the lines at the Mark Ryden signing tonight at the SFMoMA and get a little Snow Yak book autographed? And maybe ask him about being a famous artist? Or maybe just not say anything and just look at him funny?
Sasha Grey endorses it.
Asa Akira does, too.
The new David Choe monograph, through Chronicle Books. Out this week. And David will be holding some signings. In his words,
my book should be out this week
i’ll be doing signings
at
san diego comicon
at the giant robot booth ,thursday and friday the 22nd and 23rd 12 to 2 pm
SFMOMA Thursday July 29 from 6-8 pm
Giant Robot, san francisco Friday, July 30 from 6-8 pm
