Returning to SF August
How to begin again. In my second week of return from two weeks on the East Coast and two months in China. Heard Orville Schell at WAFC www.worldaffairs.org talk about his new book Wealth and Power. Got it on Kindle and started to read as well as hear his view of how China got to today from yesterday thought the eyes of early Chinese scholars. Orville is head of the Asian Institute at Asia Society, NYC and writes in Berkeley on the weekends. He was in an official delegation including Alice Waters and Yo Yo Ma to China this summer. hear hi on a New Yorker podcast.
Also viewed Larry Snider's photos: "Cultural Encounters: Peru, India, Burma and Tibet. He shows images from Labrang which I visited in 2012.
I attended a celebration of an antique Press, the Columbian Hand Press (1813) at the Book Club of California www.bccbooks.org which celebrates independent small presses and hand printed books. Georgie Delvereux the very capable programs manager is from Philadelphia, summers in Maine, and studied in her MFA with Sharon Olds. Met an aspiring writer, who has written 100 essays, or Mary Jessup. www.MaryJessup.blogspot.com
Admired the tree print from Richard Wagener's The Sierra Nevada Suite, which Peter Koch, printer was taking home. Read through Gary Syder's poems in an illustrated edition of Mt. Tam, which I anticipate purchasing, as I have a view of Mt. Tam from my terrace in my writing studio. I have attended other programs here, on May 13, "A Niece of Miss Austen: Catherine Hubback's Journey from Hampshire to California. by Zoe Klippert. and the earlier exhibition opening of "The Legacy of Florence Walter Celebrating a Century at the Book Club of California, in which her relatives appeared.
This club houses some beautiful illustrated books - an old passion of my own- once realized in an online antiquarian book business or "Books Aplenty". Reminds me of Michael McCurdy and his press in the Berkshires, -a dear old friend who introduced me to many fine small presses as well as to Tuttle in Boston and New Hampshire.
Robert Diebenkorn's paintings are in exhibition in The Berkeley years at The De Young Museum in San Francisco, well curated with a tape with comments by the curator and by Diebenkorn's daughter Gretchen Grant. The exhibition starts with De Kooning's interest in intermingling landscape and figure and then ends with Diebenkorn's admiration of Matisse including his own cutout paintings and two large canvasses in which he inserts homages to Matisse with a a part of a balcony on one foreground and the patterning in the other. My favorite other than the portrait of his wife, which I have as a logo on my MSN site, is the one he and his wife gave to Stanford University at the exit.
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I met a woman at the Contemporary Art Show at Ft Mason in the Spring who was lending her painting that she had acquired to this exhibition. An all day symposia is held on September 7at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.Postwar artist profoundly affected American Modernism, in his years at Berkeley, (1953-1966). His love of Matisse followed a state department delegation to St. Petersburg, Russia, in which he saw the wonderful collection. This pivotal period shows his own progressive development, beginning with his earliest abstract paintings, moving through the figurative stage, with many nudes and portraits, as well as landscapes.
Also viewed Larry Snider's photos: "Cultural Encounters: Peru, India, Burma and Tibet. He shows images from Labrang which I visited in 2012.
I attended a celebration of an antique Press, the Columbian Hand Press (1813) at the Book Club of California www.bccbooks.org which celebrates independent small presses and hand printed books. Georgie Delvereux the very capable programs manager is from Philadelphia, summers in Maine, and studied in her MFA with Sharon Olds. Met an aspiring writer, who has written 100 essays, or Mary Jessup. www.MaryJessup.blogspot.com
Admired the tree print from Richard Wagener's The Sierra Nevada Suite, which Peter Koch, printer was taking home. Read through Gary Syder's poems in an illustrated edition of Mt. Tam, which I anticipate purchasing, as I have a view of Mt. Tam from my terrace in my writing studio. I have attended other programs here, on May 13, "A Niece of Miss Austen: Catherine Hubback's Journey from Hampshire to California. by Zoe Klippert. and the earlier exhibition opening of "The Legacy of Florence Walter Celebrating a Century at the Book Club of California, in which her relatives appeared.
This club houses some beautiful illustrated books - an old passion of my own- once realized in an online antiquarian book business or "Books Aplenty". Reminds me of Michael McCurdy and his press in the Berkshires, -a dear old friend who introduced me to many fine small presses as well as to Tuttle in Boston and New Hampshire.
Robert Diebenkorn's paintings are in exhibition in The Berkeley years at The De Young Museum in San Francisco, well curated with a tape with comments by the curator and by Diebenkorn's daughter Gretchen Grant. The exhibition starts with De Kooning's interest in intermingling landscape and figure and then ends with Diebenkorn's admiration of Matisse including his own cutout paintings and two large canvasses in which he inserts homages to Matisse with a a part of a balcony on one foreground and the patterning in the other. My favorite other than the portrait of his wife, which I have as a logo on my MSN site, is the one he and his wife gave to Stanford University at the exit.
I met a woman at the Contemporary Art Show at Ft Mason in the Spring who was lending her painting that she had acquired to this exhibition. An all day symposia is held on September 7at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.Postwar artist profoundly affected American Modernism, in his years at Berkeley, (1953-1966). His love of Matisse followed a state department delegation to St. Petersburg, Russia, in which he saw the wonderful collection. This pivotal period shows his own progressive development, beginning with his earliest abstract paintings, moving through the figurative stage, with many nudes and portraits, as well as landscapes.
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