Anticipating the arrival of the museum blockbuster exhibition King Tut (1979), Richard Kamler envisioned a grand procession of three straw pyramids which would sail underneath the Golden Gate Bridge and briefly rest on the ruins of the Sutro Baths, before being redistributed to local farms for mulch. I thought of Kamler’s unrealized proposal when... More
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Golden Gate Bridge Tribute
Seventies Action: Bridge Cameos
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A curator’s day: part two
04.13.2010 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
This is part two of this post. This is last week’s post. Google told me to turn right, and that the artist’s street would be on the left. It wasn’t. Nor was it the next block or the next. Once again, time was running out (I have a compulsive hatred of being late) and I had no idea where I was. Google, fool me twice shame on me! I went in the other direction but realized the street name changed, so that was clearly wrong; I stopped at the corner traffic light and realized I was in the middle of a complex intersection with cars weaving to get around me, driving straining to get a glimpse of the fool parked in the middle of the busiest street in Sacramento. Raining. Lost. I called Ogden and he gave me the proper directions and said he’d look out for me. I got to his house and was let in by his gracious wife, who explained that he was somewhere out in the rain looking for me. He showed up after about ten minutes, during which time I got to see his large, lovely ... More
