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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Artists survive on the interest of collectors. But just as every writer is also a reader, every artist is also a collector. Jason Polan, a New York–based artist and illustrator, is a case...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
For fifty-two years, the Oakland Museum's Women's Board has worked year-round assembling a colossal annual rummage sale in a Fruitvale warehouse, raising millions of dollars for the...
Thursday, April 7, 2011
We ate sheep, not goat, but had an amazing time at the April Ful's Night event last Friday: warm weather, an open air...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The staff of the Oakland museum finally noticed that I've lost the ability to write. Then—I don't know how—they found out that I live in San Francisco, which is death for...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
At our Political Poster Jam, we collected names to raffle off twenty signed posters by...
Monday, February 21, 2011
I met Douglas Long, the Chief Curator of Natural Sciences at the Oakland Museum of California, in front of The Planet, J.B. Blunk's 1969 redwood burl sculpture that stands before...
