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    “You are a bear lost in a forest, and there is an old woman with long gray braids baking pies for you, and your job is to keep following the smell of pie. That’s your job—learning how to keep turning toward what is most delicious to you.”

    Sydney Cohen’s advice to art students. Read more →

    Posted on Tuesday, May 21st 2013

    Tags art art students quote sfmoma open space

    Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here. Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

    Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here.

    Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

    Posted on Tuesday, May 14th 2013

    Tags lwsketchbooks lebbeus woods sfmoma

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    Andrew Benson will perform Shine Bright Plastic Diamonds, a digital mural that will be projected onto a building adjacent to the Phoenix Hotel, at ArtPadSF’s Opening Night, Thursday, May 16th.

    Read Benson’s Q&A with FAD, here; he talks about his process, performing Shine Bright Plastic Diamonds, and takes a hard stance in favor of the RGB color model. 

    Get tix to Thursday’s opening ArtPadSF party (benefitting SFMOMA’s SECA Art Award) HERE.

    Posted on Monday, May 13th 2013

    Tags artpadsf sfmoma projection art fair digital art video art

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    Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here. Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

    Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here.

    Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

    Posted on Sunday, May 12th 2013

    Tags lwsketchbooks lebbeus woods sfmoma

    How do we remember a career that did not leave behind a canonical trail? How do we fit the machine designed to illustrate a philosophical idea into a history of computing, or fit the plans for a city that can exist only in the imagination into a history of architecture?Read more →Image: Lebbeus Woods, Concentric Field, from the series Centricity, 1987

    How do we remember a career that did not leave behind a canonical trail? How do we fit the machine designed to illustrate a philosophical idea into a history of computing, or fit the plans for a city that can exist only in the imagination into a history of architecture?

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    Image: Lebbeus Woods, Concentric Field, from the series Centricity, 1987

    Posted on Friday, May 10th 2013

    Tags lebbeus woods open space blog post sfmoma architecture design