Lex Leifheit » Art

Advance Notice: Nov 24—30

Lex — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:37:30 +0000

I’m a little behind this week but figure that’s okay, because the week is supposed to be all about friends and family. Although my San Francisco “family” is small (growing fast!), people here have been very generous in including me in their holiday plans. Between people I’m meeting and people who are moving or visiting, I won’t be lonely as Thanksgiving morphs into an all-out holiday blur. Dan is coming to San Francisco (from Massachusetts), as is my friend Eddie (from L.A.), and I just learned that one of the super-invaluable student workers from Green Street has now graduated and moved from Connecticut to Oakland.

This week’s cultural outings will include:

Thursday, November 27, 4:30am
Un-Thanksgiving on Alcatraz

Saturday, November 29, 10am
Buskers at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market

Sunday, November 30, noon
Bazaare Bizarre at the San Francisco County Fair Building, followed by a stroll around the Academy of Sciences

Whirlwind Tour: Bay Area

Lex — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:11:21 +0000

Dan and I are in the Bay Area this weekend, for a wedding in Oakland. We are staying an extra day to check out Bay Area Now 5, the triennial festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Frida Kahlo at SFMoMA.

After a week of bad news and mishaps (one: the Art Agenda recording encountered “technical difficulties,” so my interviews with the articulate and dynamic artist Kelly Bigelow Becerra and Yale Art Gallery museum educator Aja Armey were live-only) it is nice to get away.

Art Agenda: Vanishing Landscape

Lex — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:40:29 +0000

Interview with photographer David Ottenstein, excerpted from The Art Agenda. Originally broadcast on 88.1fm, WESU, Middletown on April 11, 2008.

David’s exhibition Vanishing Landscape will be on display at the Exposure Gallery in New Haven through May 10, 2008.