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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

At our Political Poster Jam, we collected names to raffle off twenty signed posters by...

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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...

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