San Jose Museum of Art will run an exhibition of works by Chuck Close from Tuesday, October 6, 2009 through Sunday, January 10, 2010.
Chuck Close has revolutionized both contemporary portraiture and printmaking. Close made his first print as a professional artist in 1972 and printmaking soon became an important and most fruitful, experimental aspect of his artistic endeavor. His innovation in printmaking is now legend.
Close was particularly concerned that his prints not simply be smaller versions of his paintings, but rather that printmaking open up an additional arena of investigation that would require him to engage in image-making in completely different ways.
In addition to including finished prints, this exhibition features full suites of Close’s preliminary proofs and various states of editions. Also on view will be the woodblocks and etching plates for several of the more complex images he has created.
The exhibition is no less than a stellar investigation into the mechanics of perception and virtuoso artistic process. It premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: the San Jose Museum of Art is the only northern California venue.
The picture shows Phil Spitbite, 1995 Spitbite etching 28 x 20" Edition 60 ?Spring Street Workshop, New York, printer (Bill Hall, Julia D’Amario, Ruth Lingen, Pam Cooper) Pace Editions, Inc., New York, publisher. -- www.sjmusart.org
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
San Jose Museum Exhibits 'Variations On Theme'
San Jose Museum of Art runs an exhibition named 'Variations on a Theme' through Sunday, February 7, 2010.
Variations on a Theme is an expansive presentation of works by ca. 30-40 contemporary artists, (most based in California), organized in thematic groupings, which tentatively include the environment and sustainability; the urban landscape; stories of people and the body politic; labor-intensive artistic techniques; and faith and spirituality.
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Variations on a Theme is an expansive presentation of works by ca. 30-40 contemporary artists, (most based in California), organized in thematic groupings, which tentatively include the environment and sustainability; the urban landscape; stories of people and the body politic; labor-intensive artistic techniques; and faith and spirituality.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Alfred Hitchcok and Silicon Valley
The most famous resident of Scott's Valley, located between San Jose and Santa Cruz, was film director Alfred Hitchcock,who lived there from 1940 to 1972 in a mountaintop estate. In the early morning hours of August 18, 1961, Santa Cruz residents awoke to the macabre sight of a massive flock of birds slamming themselves against coastside buildings, an eerie event said to have inspired Hitchcock's movie thriller, "The Birds."
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Price goes up after Friday July 17!
Last chance to SAVE $100 on your AMTC Registration!
Initial discount deadline is midnight tomorrow, Friday, July 17th!
With the current economic climate, why not take full advantage of this year's discount?
NOTE: Registration is always transferable to another individual from within your organization if you find that you are unable to attend. Take advantage of the lowest rate now!
REGISTER ONLINE!
Safety. Synergy. Success.
About the ConferenceThe Air Medical Transport Conference (AMTC) is specifically designed to provide leadership, to educate, to inform, to cultivate friendships and to supply up to the minute information on the latest techniques and innovative approaches to emergency medical transport practice from the experts in your field.
The conference offers 150+ education sessions covering topics in a variety of disciplines including:
Safety
Core and Specialty Clinical
Aviation
Business/Management
Aviation
Outreach/Marketing
Case Studies
We also offer an exposition featuring over 140 companies displaying products and services directly applicable to air and critical care ground medicine. Network and learn with more than 2,500 colleagues from across the nation and around the world at the largest air medical convention and exposition available!
Full conference registration is available for just $505 per member registration/$605 per non-member registration IF received by midnight on Friday. Are you aware that you qualify for the member rate if you are a member of AAMS, AACN, AMPA, ASTNA, IAFP, NAACS, or NEMSPA?
Your full registration will include:
2 Keynote Sessions
3-days of education sessions
Access to the Exhibit Hall
Attendee breakfast/coffee
2 Attendee Lunches
AMTC Community Awards Banquet
MASH BASH - the AMTC's traditional closing night party
It's the best deal around!
Full information about the 2009 AMTC is available on our website - click here!
Ready to register? REGISTER ONLINE!
We look forward to seeing you in San Jose, California in late October. If you have any questions about the conference, please feel free to call us at (703) 836-8732.
Initial discount deadline is midnight tomorrow, Friday, July 17th!
With the current economic climate, why not take full advantage of this year's discount?
NOTE: Registration is always transferable to another individual from within your organization if you find that you are unable to attend. Take advantage of the lowest rate now!
REGISTER ONLINE!
Safety. Synergy. Success.
About the ConferenceThe Air Medical Transport Conference (AMTC) is specifically designed to provide leadership, to educate, to inform, to cultivate friendships and to supply up to the minute information on the latest techniques and innovative approaches to emergency medical transport practice from the experts in your field.
The conference offers 150+ education sessions covering topics in a variety of disciplines including:
Safety
Core and Specialty Clinical
Aviation
Business/Management
Aviation
Outreach/Marketing
Case Studies
We also offer an exposition featuring over 140 companies displaying products and services directly applicable to air and critical care ground medicine. Network and learn with more than 2,500 colleagues from across the nation and around the world at the largest air medical convention and exposition available!
Full conference registration is available for just $505 per member registration/$605 per non-member registration IF received by midnight on Friday. Are you aware that you qualify for the member rate if you are a member of AAMS, AACN, AMPA, ASTNA, IAFP, NAACS, or NEMSPA?
Your full registration will include:
2 Keynote Sessions
3-days of education sessions
Access to the Exhibit Hall
Attendee breakfast/coffee
2 Attendee Lunches
AMTC Community Awards Banquet
MASH BASH - the AMTC's traditional closing night party
It's the best deal around!
Full information about the 2009 AMTC is available on our website - click here!
Ready to register? REGISTER ONLINE!
We look forward to seeing you in San Jose, California in late October. If you have any questions about the conference, please feel free to call us at (703) 836-8732.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Britannia Arms Downtown
Live Music Sports Bar and British Pub in Downtown San Jose
Ahhh… the ineffable greatness of British pubs. Between fish & chips and pints of ale, there’s something about a good pub that puts a smile on people’s faces – and it’s not just the pints that do it. Obviously in on this secret of greatness, The Brit floats a bit of the Isles across the sea and transplants it in San Jose, offering a killer hangout and gathering spot in the British pub tradition.
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Ahhh… the ineffable greatness of British pubs. Between fish & chips and pints of ale, there’s something about a good pub that puts a smile on people’s faces – and it’s not just the pints that do it. Obviously in on this secret of greatness, The Brit floats a bit of the Isles across the sea and transplants it in San Jose, offering a killer hangout and gathering spot in the British pub tradition.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Possible Tourist Destination - Post AMTC
Alcatraz considering sleepovers
By: John UptonExaminer Staff Writer July 6, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — The weather-worn doors to former guards’ barracks on Alcatraz Island could be swung open to allow visitors to sleep overnight at the world-famous outcrop.
But delicate or aging tourists might be disappointed. In keeping with the island’s rugged past, overnight visitors will need to sweat for their board through physical labor to help spruce up the famous landmark, under recommendations being drafted by officials.
Last year, the federal agency that oversees Alcatraz solicited public feedback on the island’s future. The task was part of an effort to create a 20-year master plan for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz Island and some other Bay Area coastal regions.
The GGNRA outlined three alternatives for the future of the island, which is a popular tourist destination that was formerly home to a military fortress, a maximum-security penitentiary and a Native American settlement.
The alternatives raised the prospect that hotel or hostel accommodations might open on the island, as first reported by The Examiner.
They included increasing visitor access to the island, preserving and enhancing its natural environment, and restoring and celebrating its “national treasures” — features relating to Alcatraz’s checkered cultural past.
More than 1,500 people and organizations submitted feedback, according to GGNRA project manager Brian Aviles.
“We’ve selected the preferred alternative,” Aviles said. “It’s going to be alternative number three —‘Focusing on National Treasures.’”
No new buildings are planned on the island, but aging buildings will be refurbished and some ecological restoration will be undertaken, he said.
“We want to focus the accommodations on providing a better place for our volunteer and educational programs — so it’s going to be modest in scale, and it’s going to be dorm-like,” Aviles said.
The dormitories will be built in future years into the cold, gray Barracks Building, which is the island’s largest building and the first structure visitors encounter when they reach the island by ferry.
“That was historically a barracks, and we think we can reconfigure it. We’re not going to restore all of it — it’s a five story building — but portions of it would be opened up to the public,” Aviles said.
The recommendations are due to be finalized next year, and it’s too early to say how many beds or rooms will open, but Aviles said he imagined dorm rooms containing 20 beds each.
A small fee might need to be paid by volunteer workers staying on the island.
Many older tourists on the island Sunday turned up their noses at the prospect of sleeping in the Barracks Building — especially if labor was required.
But younger visitors sounded enthusiastic.
“I would definitely be interested,” said Alex Cordery, a 15-year-old Englishman vacationing with pals in California. “It’d be good to be able to say that you stayed at Alcatraz.”
The duties of the island’s newest inhabitants will be based loosely on an existing program, in which nonprofits enter a lottery to send groups to the island, where they sleep on cots in prison hallways and garden and paint during the day.
Access to those programs is severely limited because the island lacks basic amenities like running water. The GGNRA is considering undertaking rainwater harvesting and water recycling initiatives on site, as well as building an underwater cable to import power from the mainland and installing solar panels on the island, according to Aviles.
Residents of the Rock
A history of the Barracks Building on Alcatraz Island
1860s: Construction of the Barracks Building begins. The building is designed to provide a “bombproof” fortress to help protect San Francisco from Confederate forces and sympathizers.
1890s: The Barracks Building is used to house a growing number of guards brought onto the island to oversee soldier prisoners who were punished for committing crimes during the Spanish-American War.
1930s: After the island was turned into a federal penitentiary in 1934, military living quarters inside the building were carved up to provide apartment housing for guards and their families.
1969-1979: Hundreds of Native American activists, who claimed ownership of the island, lived inside the Barracks Building.Present: The building houses a tourist gift shop, theater and historical artifacts, but most of it is locked up for safety reasons.
Source: Cultural Resources and Museum Management Division, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
jupton@sfexaminer.com
By: John UptonExaminer Staff Writer July 6, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — The weather-worn doors to former guards’ barracks on Alcatraz Island could be swung open to allow visitors to sleep overnight at the world-famous outcrop.
But delicate or aging tourists might be disappointed. In keeping with the island’s rugged past, overnight visitors will need to sweat for their board through physical labor to help spruce up the famous landmark, under recommendations being drafted by officials.
Last year, the federal agency that oversees Alcatraz solicited public feedback on the island’s future. The task was part of an effort to create a 20-year master plan for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz Island and some other Bay Area coastal regions.
The GGNRA outlined three alternatives for the future of the island, which is a popular tourist destination that was formerly home to a military fortress, a maximum-security penitentiary and a Native American settlement.
The alternatives raised the prospect that hotel or hostel accommodations might open on the island, as first reported by The Examiner.
They included increasing visitor access to the island, preserving and enhancing its natural environment, and restoring and celebrating its “national treasures” — features relating to Alcatraz’s checkered cultural past.
More than 1,500 people and organizations submitted feedback, according to GGNRA project manager Brian Aviles.
“We’ve selected the preferred alternative,” Aviles said. “It’s going to be alternative number three —‘Focusing on National Treasures.’”
No new buildings are planned on the island, but aging buildings will be refurbished and some ecological restoration will be undertaken, he said.
“We want to focus the accommodations on providing a better place for our volunteer and educational programs — so it’s going to be modest in scale, and it’s going to be dorm-like,” Aviles said.
The dormitories will be built in future years into the cold, gray Barracks Building, which is the island’s largest building and the first structure visitors encounter when they reach the island by ferry.
“That was historically a barracks, and we think we can reconfigure it. We’re not going to restore all of it — it’s a five story building — but portions of it would be opened up to the public,” Aviles said.
The recommendations are due to be finalized next year, and it’s too early to say how many beds or rooms will open, but Aviles said he imagined dorm rooms containing 20 beds each.
A small fee might need to be paid by volunteer workers staying on the island.
Many older tourists on the island Sunday turned up their noses at the prospect of sleeping in the Barracks Building — especially if labor was required.
But younger visitors sounded enthusiastic.
“I would definitely be interested,” said Alex Cordery, a 15-year-old Englishman vacationing with pals in California. “It’d be good to be able to say that you stayed at Alcatraz.”
The duties of the island’s newest inhabitants will be based loosely on an existing program, in which nonprofits enter a lottery to send groups to the island, where they sleep on cots in prison hallways and garden and paint during the day.
Access to those programs is severely limited because the island lacks basic amenities like running water. The GGNRA is considering undertaking rainwater harvesting and water recycling initiatives on site, as well as building an underwater cable to import power from the mainland and installing solar panels on the island, according to Aviles.
Residents of the Rock
A history of the Barracks Building on Alcatraz Island
1860s: Construction of the Barracks Building begins. The building is designed to provide a “bombproof” fortress to help protect San Francisco from Confederate forces and sympathizers.
1890s: The Barracks Building is used to house a growing number of guards brought onto the island to oversee soldier prisoners who were punished for committing crimes during the Spanish-American War.
1930s: After the island was turned into a federal penitentiary in 1934, military living quarters inside the building were carved up to provide apartment housing for guards and their families.
1969-1979: Hundreds of Native American activists, who claimed ownership of the island, lived inside the Barracks Building.Present: The building houses a tourist gift shop, theater and historical artifacts, but most of it is locked up for safety reasons.
Source: Cultural Resources and Museum Management Division, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
jupton@sfexaminer.com
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Herhold: The 'Hands' artwork gets a few captions
The results are tallied. The jokes are told. The puns have surfaced. And maybe we have a keeper or two.
After getting more than 300 nominations for my caption contest for the "Hands'' artwork at Mineta San Jose International Airport, I'm smiling as I recite the best of the bunch.
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After getting more than 300 nominations for my caption contest for the "Hands'' artwork at Mineta San Jose International Airport, I'm smiling as I recite the best of the bunch.
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