Anthony Huberman has been named director of the San Francisco CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, reports Andrew Russeth of the New York Observer.
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On the 15th of every month, Michael Swaine trundles into San Francisco’s Tenderloin district with a cart-mounted sewing machine—the old-fashioned kind, which you can only operate by means of a treadle.
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A National Guard facility. A professional boxing venue. A Star Wars shooting location. And now, most recently, a massive online fetish porn factory. The San Francisco Armory has a history befitting its Moorish, lost-in-time exterior. It’s also the backdrop of photographer Elizabeth Moran’s porn-sans-porn photo project, The Armory.
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The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco has hired a new director, Anthony Huberman, the founding director of the Artist’s Institute, New York.
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San Francisco’s CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts announced today that it has selected curator Anthony Huberman as its new director. Mr. Huberman, who will start in the role in August, is currently director of New York’s Artist’s Institute, a CUNY–Hunter College project on the Lower East Side that has presented rich programming based on the work of a different contemporary artist each semester, including Rosemarie Trockle, Jimmie Durham and Haim Steinbach. He launched the institution in 2010.
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Anthony Huberman has been named the new director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
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At 23, Rosannah Sandoval is the AIA's youngest licensed architect. Currently a designer in Perkins + Will's San Francisco office, she attended Auburn and its Rural Studio program, as well as CCA. One of her recent projects at Perkins + Will, Calexico West Land Port of Entry, won a 2013 Progressive/Architecture Award from Architect magazine. AIA San Francisco reached out to Sandoval to learn more about her experiences in architecture, the challenges she has faced, and her future goals.
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For Farewell! (2011), Elizabeth Moran collected, printed, and framed a series of "good bye" emails written and sent employees who had either quit, fired, or laid off from various companies between 2011 and 2008. As she writes on her website, "Though the sending of these email are discouraged, employees view them as their last chance to reach out to thank or disparage those who will remain in the company." This artwork is a powerful documentation of the 2008 financial crisis: these ephemeral, epistolary traces are both tragic and comic, in an Office Space slash Margin Call sort of way.
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At a Castro church, the organizers of March4Equality stood in a circle holding hands below red mesh hearts made from contorted Hula Hoops and, in a meditative trance, vocally imagined themselves rallying for same-sex marriage amid a lively evening at Castro and Market streets.
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Jens Hoffmann, when he was director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, took a sizable gamble by commissioning 12 acclaimed photographers, including Larry Clark, Katy Grannan, Catherine Opie, Martha Rosler, Collier Schorr, Stephen Shore and Alec Soth, to document the mood of the nation in 2011.
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