Ironically, on the one hundred year anniversary of his birth…
Ansel Adams Center/ Friends of Photography closes.
SFAI LECTURE HALL
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18
8:00P.M.
A sixty minute documentary about terrorist strikes against U.S. targets over the last twenty years and how they led up to the 9-11 Assault.
Round Table Discussion following the screening.
This is way too weird.
Longing for a depth of understanding, a different point of view and
analysis about recent events, I went in search of commentary by Dr. Edward Said. Said continues to turn the tables on conventional Western perspectives about the Middle East (and so much more.)
The Artist’s World,at the CCAC Institute, delivers a deliciously nasty take on contemporary artists’ lives, laced with self-loathing, acrid humor, and in-jokes. If you get it, you’ll like it.
Highlights of “First Thursday” gallery openings in San Francisco
Lisa Kokin’s photo webs at Catharine Clark Gallery and Adaline Kent’s sculptures at 871 Fine Arts. Kent, an innovative modernist in the 1940s, died young in a car crash. Since then her work has been closely held by her family; see this wonderful work before it disappears into private collections.