Stop Hating on James Franco

05.23.2013  |  By
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Two words: Professional Jealousy. Busy people get things done because, well, they are busy. But don’t bother telling that to the hipsters that keep spray painting sarcastic graffiti on Franco’s mural he just made last weekend in Williamsburg, Brooklyn – they won’t care.

To them he’s just another good-looking guy with all the m... More

Currents Within a Collection: Agnes E. Meyer

05.23.2013  |  By
Filed under: 151 3rd, Projects/Series

The Elise S. Haas Bequest: Modern Art from Matisse to Marini is on view at SFMOMA till June 2. Open Space is pleased to host a series of posts highlighting Mrs. Haas’s network of personal connections from SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Caitlin Haskell and featuring graphics by designer Adam Machacek.

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Currents Within a Collection: Elise S. Haas

05.21.2013  |  By
Filed under: 151 3rd, Projects/Series

The Elise S. Haas Bequest: Modern Art from Matisse to Marini is on view at SFMOMA till June 2. Open Space is pleased to host a series of posts highlighting Mrs. Haas’s network of personal connections from SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Caitlin Haskell and featuring graphics by designer Adam Machacek.

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Currents Within a Collection: An Alternative History of the Elise S. Haas Bequest

05.21.2013  |  By
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The Elise S. Haas Bequest: Modern Art from Matisse to Marini is on view until SFMOMA temporarily closes its doors June 2, and as we wind down these last few days, Open Space is pleased to host a series of posts from SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Caitlin Haskell highlighting one of the museum’s most important benefactors, Elis... More

The Boxer

05.20.2013  |  By
Filed under: 151 3rd

In 1954 Garry Winogrand, then a twenty-six-year-old commercial photographer, was commissioned by Sports Illustrated to do a story about a young boxer named Nick Biondi. The two struck up a friendship and stayed in touch until Winogrand moved away from New York in 1971.

When SFMOMA and the National Gallery announced plans to organize a retrospective... More

1975

05.19.2013  |  By

 

In Sacramento, one of the girls who stood vigil outside a Los Angeles courtroom waiting for her “father to be released” in 1969 makes headlines again six years later. Charles Manson follower Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate President Gerald Ford in a gesture that she claims is in defense of the Redwood Forest.
“I stood up and waved a gun (at Ford) for a reason,” Fromme says. “I was so relieved not to have to shoot it, but, in truth, I came to get life. Not just my life but clean air, healthy water and respec... More

What We Do Is Secret: Sydney Cohen

05.17.2013  |  By
Filed under: Conversations, Field Notes

 

Lately I’ve become obsessed with the paintings of Sydney Cohen, the Oakland-based artist who is also an adjunct painting/drawing professor at California College of the Arts. We met there last summer teaching painting in the Pre-College Program on the Oakland campus. She is warm and unpretentious, and we became fast friends commiserating... More

Lebbeus Woods, Architect: Mr. Woods, Be My Valentine

05.16.2013  |  By
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Lebbeus Woods, Architect is on view at SFMOMA till June 2. Open Space is pleased to be hosting a series of posts on Woods’s work and legacy. We close the series with a heartfelt missive from the University of Illinois library to Lebbeus Woods, discovered in the university’s archives by Daryl McCurdy, architecture and design department assistant... More

Missed Connections: It Must Be Spring

05.15.2013  |  By
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San Francisco Art Invades New York

05.15.2013  |  By
Filed under: Back Page, Field Notes

Sometimes in New York this thing happens—you are going out and suddenly you find yourself surrounded by folks you know from San Francisco. After a while you might pause, stare up at the sky, and ask to nobody in particular, “Where are they all coming from?”

Even when you talk to complete strangers—if you talk with them long enough, ... More