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Sep 9, 2011 · My Father the Forger: TED. Often times real-life heroes are created by accident. Sarah Kaminsky tells an extraordinarily inspiring story of her father Adolpho and his activity during World War II. After discovering that he had a skill which was desperately needed by the Resistance, he used his ingenuity and talent for forgery to save many lives.
Born in 1979 in Algeria, of an Argentinean father with Russian origins, and a Tuareg Algerian mother, Sarah Kaminsky arrived in France when she was 3 years old. Passionate about art since her childhood, she started learning the cello at age 4. As a teenager, she discovered two passions, which are still vibrant in her life: theater and writing ...
Jan 16, 2024 · After an uneven few years for the city, San Francisco’s art scene is experiencing something of a renaissance. The cost of living skyrocketed during the first and second tech booms in the 1980s and the 2000s, making the city feel inhospitable to many working artists. But in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city is revitalizing its legacy ...
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Loie Hollowell, ‘Tick Tock Belly Clock’ Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis Sept. 25, 2022–May 8, 2023 This one-room exhibition at the Manetti Shrem by New York artist Loie Hollowellis a homecoming of sorts (Hollowell grew up in Woodland, just outside of Sacramento, and her father was a UC Davis professor). Hollowell’s paintings and drawings are ...
Xandra Ibarra in ‘Hella Feminist’ Oakland Museum of California July 29, 2022–Jan. 8, 2023 In one corner of OMCA’s Hella Feminist is a welcome surprise: a mini-retrospective for Oakland artist Xandra Ibarra, whose art and performance work regularly makes the rounds at national institutions, but is harder to see locally. (On that note, don’t miss the...
Candice Lin, ‘Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping’ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive May 8–Nov. 27, 2022 In a downstairs gallery at BAMPFA, an indigo-dyed tent surrounded by guardian-like figures invited visitors to remove their shoes and lounge on a carpet alongside ceramic cats to watch an animation about another cat, a feral neighborho...
The Bay Area native, who was born in San Mateo in 1923, lived and worked around the globe, from Paris and Tokyo to New York City and Santa Monica, before finally returning home to the Bay Area to settle in Marin County several years before he died in 1994. His colorful acrylic canvases and watercolor works on paper garnered him international ...
Jun 12, 2024 · 10. Bay Area Artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) Ruth Asawa in Her Studio, San Francisco, 1969. Source: Ruth Asawa’s website. Ruth Asawa was born in Southern California to Japanese parents. When she was a teenager, her entire family was sent to internment camps. After this painful experience, Asawa was able to pursue art at Black Mountain College ...
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Oct 2, 2024 · Sarah Blaustein (b. 1982, San Francisco East Bay, CA). Blaustein is a visual artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent solo exhibitions include Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA ; Institute of Contemporary Art San José , San José, CA; priv
