Colette and I played hooky yesterday and “did art.”
ur first stop was the only Frank Lloyd Wright building in San Francisco, at 140 Maiden Lane, just off Union Square. You and I have passed it a thousand times, ignoring it, since it seemed to be just one more trendy Asian gallery. But a friend who is known as a finder of interesting sights, said, take another look.
The exterior is a fascinating red brick wall like an ancient Greek tomb with an off-center arched door.
On entering you see a large atrium, a huge hanging flower container and a sloping ramp that strikes me (and apparently others) as very Guggenheim(NY)-like. It’s a nifty place well worth the (free) visit.
Our second stop was the SFMoma which has reopened its sculpture garden that has a spider-like Louise Bourgeois that I don’t recall seeing before and a nice Calder Mobile/Stabile combo outside.
Downstairs was a temporary exhibit of the South African artists William Kentridge whose works on canvas are too Baconesque to be of interest to me and whose video productions are simply not engaging.
The final novelty is a show of Robert Frank’s photography whose work I recently admired at the Jeu de Paume in Paris and liked very much.
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