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The symmetry of a dew-laden spiderweb. The whorls and lines etched into your skin. The swirling clouds of gas and dust being pushed out from a distant supernova. The universe is full of some heart-stoppingly beautiful visuals. Science is ever…
by Heidi De Vries
February 20, 2013
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Peter Foucault, Sandra Ono, Tobias Tovera, Root Division
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Disney’s animated version of the story of Aladdin had a lot going on. There were the Broadway-worthy songs, Robin Williams hamming it up as the voice of the genie, and let’s not forget Princess Jasmine’s belly-baring harem pants ensemble. Do…
by Heidi De Vries
February 20, 2013
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Bollywood, The Walt Disney Company, Mumbai, Robin Williams, ODC Theater
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Though Groucho Marx famously declared, "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member," many of us welcome the opportunity to find other souls who share our interests, connecting through chess clubs,…
by Heidi De Vries
February 13, 2013
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Groucho Marx, London, Anne Walsh's Respiration Society, Southern Exposure
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Close your eyes and think of Los Angeles. What comes to mind? Cars stuck in never-ending gridlock? Bleached-blonde starlets teetering on sky-high heels? Artist Ann Diener peels back the superficial stereotypes and reveals the complex nature of the City of…
by Heidi De Vries
February 6, 2013
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Ann Diener, Los Angeles, Electric Works
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The Exhibitionist
We fondly remember the first time we were mopped. There we were, innocently admiring the tub of lard at 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store, when all of a sudden an old-fashioned fuzzy mop dropped on our head. This is merely…
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by Heidi De Vries
February 4, 2013 @ 8:30 am
Tags: Books and Literature, Events, Video
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We have a lot to celebrate during Black History Month. There’s the 50th anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a second-term for President Obama, and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. An early draft of that very…
by Heidi De Vries
January 30, 2013
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Black History Month, Alex Haley, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Catlett, Museum of the African Diaspora
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We fondly remember the first time we were mopped. There we were, innocently admiring the tub of lard at 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store, when all of a sudden an old-fashioned fuzzy mop dropped on our head. This is merely…
by Heidi De Vries
January 23, 2013
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, 826 Valencia
Culture,
The Exhibitionist
We hate to state the obvious, but the world really doesn't seem like such a peaceful place right now. Shootings in our cities and in our schools, a prison system intent on perpetuating cycles of poverty and crime, never-ending unrest…
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by Heidi De Vries
January 22, 2013 @ 10:30 am
Tags: Art
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On March 7, 1965, hundreds of men and women attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., to protest white resistance to black voter registration. A line of police awaited them on the other side of Edmund Pettus Bridge. What…
by Heidi De Vries
January 9, 2013
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Montgomery (Alabama), Selma, Martin Luther King Jr., Yerba Buena Gardens
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Mel Ramos makes the kind of paintings you're embarrassed to encounter while strolling through SFMOMA with your family. Currently one of the elder statesmen of California art, his technical chops and his ability to represent the human figure cannot be…
by Heidi De Vries
January 9, 2013
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Mel Ramos, Elena Dorfman, Bit-O-Honey Bars, California, Modernism
Culture,
The Exhibitionist
A young woman dressed in a wedding gown flies through the air, her eyes closed. In one hand she grasps a portrait of the back of a man's head, and the same rope that binds her wrist and upper arm…
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by Heidi De Vries
January 3, 2013 @ 8:30 am
Tags: Art, Video
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If you visited last year’s excellent group exhibition “State of Mind” at the Berkeley Art Museum, you might have been treated to The Sound of Ice Melting. A re-creation of a 1970 conceptual piece by Paul Kos, the artwork consisted…
by Heidi De Vries
January 2, 2013
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Chris Duncan, Paul Kos, Aaron Harbour, Collin McKelvey, Southern Exposure
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We hate to state the obvious, but the world really doesn't seem like such a peaceful place right now. Shootings in our cities and in our schools, a prison system intent on perpetuating cycles of poverty and crime, never-ending unrest…
by Heidi De Vries
December 26, 2012
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Ala Ebtekar, Chaz Walker, Iran, Middle East, SOMArts Cultural Center
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A young woman dressed in a wedding gown flies through the air, her eyes closed. In one hand she grasps a portrait of the back of a man's head (her groom?), and the same rope that binds her wrist and…
by Heidi De Vries
December 26, 2012
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Asal Fallah, Iran, Middle East, Tehran, Art People
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As we plow through the holiday season on our way to New Year's, it's well worth stopping for a second to remember an event from a century and a half ago. January 1, 2013, just happens to be the 150th…
by Heidi De Vries
December 12, 2012
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, Amos Brown, Bernard Anderson, City Hall
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Ah, the Mayan apocalypse, with its vague predictions of worldwide cataclysm and alien intervention. It seems like there is always a subset of people eager to predict the end of society as we know it, and those who sell shelters…
by Heidi De Vries
December 12, 2012
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Martin Herrera-Pazmino, Brava Theater Center
