On Wednesday, April 11th, Wayne Koestenbaum spoke at the San Francisco Art Institute as part of the Visiting Artists and Scholars lecture series curated by Glen Helfand. That afternoon, on the other side of the city, and with one eye on the clock, Kevin Killian visited my Fundamentals of Creative Reading class at San Francisco State. To transmit th... More
Posts Tagged “George Kuchar”
Wayne Koestenbaum at SFAI
04.20.2012 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
Missed Connection: Kuchar at the Museum
01.03.2012 | ByFiled under: Back Page
George Kuchar 1942-2011
09.07.2011 | ByFiled under: Back Page
BAY AREA ECSTATIC
11.14.2010 | ByFiled under: Essay
Bay Area Ecstatic, my first programming effort for an SFMOMA film show, plays this Thursday, 7 p.m., in the Phyllis Wattis Theater. Note to followers of The THE END Tour: this week’s post has been preempted by this exploration of later forms of Bay Area ecstatic cinema. Please enjoy, and check back next week for your next Maclaine fix, the co... More
20 Bay Area Artists & Videos
01.06.2010 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
In collaboration with Happenstand, last summer I compiled a provisional list of some of the most important living artists in the SF Bay Area to share with curator friends abroad and those visiting. It includes artists who have realized exhibitions at museums, solo shows at galleries, and experience outside California and in most cases the US. In other words it’s an attempt at a quantitative rather than qualitative survey. We called it Stance both as a play on the name Happenstand and the idea of taking a stance. Using the Stance artists a... More
Five Questions: George Kuchar
12.07.2009 | ByFiled under: Conversations
[Five questions to SFMOMA visitors, artists, staff, or guests. George Kuchar, legendary San Francisco filmmaker, lives in the Mission district and teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.]
Hobby?
I like making pictures, videos, movies. Videos now, etc.
Do you collect anything?
I got a whole bunch of things because I didn’t like painting the ... More
