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Memorial Auditorium: Where California Sunshine Goes to Die

Memorial Auditorium: Where California Sunshine Goes to Die

Built in 1937, Memorial Auditorium squats at the heart of Stanford’s campus, a monument to the dead of World War I that somehow became a venue for everything from visiting orchestras to corporate motivational speakers hawking the next big disruption. The interior is vast and unforgiving. Those hard seats don’t give a damn about my […]

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Hands That Refuse

Hands That Refuse

Look at those hands. Two generations of women who’ve spent their lives insisting that the body means something beyond what commerce wants to sell us, beyond what convention wants to contain. Anna Halprin, 90 something years deep into the radical proposition that movement is democratic, that anybody’s dance matters, holding hands with Tonyanna Borkovi, who’s […]

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Where We Buried the Plutonium

Buildings without foundations will inevitably come down. I can be fooled, but my kids won’t be… either we will correct what’s wrong, it will be corrected for us. James Baldwin, Take This Hammer We’re real good at forgetting where we buried the bodies. Or in this case, where we buried the plutonium. Hunters Point. Say […]

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Where We Buried the Plutonium
Mothers Day…

Mothers Day…

She was the kind of woman who understood, fundamentally, that comfort is the enemy of everything worth doing, that real power doesn’t come from being liked but from being necessary when everything’s falling apart. In the art world she knew every hustle, spotted every inflated price, every lazy shortcut passed off as craftsmanship. Storekeepers saw […]

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May 3, 2016 · Industries

Luciano Chessa: A Retrospective at YBCA

Luciano Chessa: A Retrospective at YBCA

There’s this thing that happens when you walk into a space like YBCA and someone’s decided to call the thing a retrospective. That word alone, retrospective, it’s already half-dead on arrival, embalmed in institutional reverence before the first note even sounds. But what I’m getting from this image, from whatever the hell Luciano conjured in […]

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Love’s Labour’s Lost, 1960s

Love’s Labour’s Lost, 1960s

my father Charles R. Lyons in Shakespeare’s Love Labour’s Lost for Farm Players at Stanford University mid 1960s LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT BASTARD. Stanford University, mid 1960s, some production of Love’s Labour’s Lost that probably nobody remembers except it’s Shakespeare and Shakespeare MATTERS because Shakespeare understood that language is the only weapon we’ve got against […]

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Wild Rumpus An Index of Metals

Wild Rumpus An Index of Metals

Contemporary chamber ensemble Wild Rumpus perform Fausto Romitelli’s 2003 video operaΒ An Index of Metals at Freight and Salavage in Berkeley. Nathaniel Berman conductor…

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