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A MONTHLY COMPILATION OF INSPIRING THINGS TO SEE
Gathered by CHAD CAMERON

THROUGH 1.10.10

FANTASTIC MR FOX

The Cartoon Art Museum proudly presents original works of art from Twentieth Century Fox’s feature film FANTASTIC MR. FOX, scheduled for nationwide release on November 25, 2009. This exhibit features two sets from the stop motion animated film, “Flint Mine – We Took Everything” and “Farmer Scale Yellow Door,” which include puppets and props used in the film’s production. These works will be displayed in conjunction with the Cartoon Art Museum’s permanent collection of classic animation cels and drawings throughout the holiday season.

Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco

THROUGH 1.24.10

OPEN SOURCE BROIDERY

The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents artworks that use embroidery, thread, and code as a tool for participatory production and distribution. Open Source Embroidery includes workshops and exhibitions that investigate how the open source software development model has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation. This major exhibition brings together individual and collectively made artworks by artists, makers, computer programmers and html users that explore the relationship between craft and code through social and digital networks. The works experiment with interdisciplinary approaches to modifying patterns, the DIY culture of hacking and sampling in sound, GPS and mobile technologies.

Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco

THROUGH 1.31.10

CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN ART

When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the Present, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, features Brazil’s creative vitality through the works of artists, fashion designers and architects. In the 1960s, an artistic movement arose in Brazil, Tropicália, which celebrated the “originality of the culture of people who live in the tropics.” Tropicália sought to escape the shadow of the West and create a uniquely Brazilian art culture. Its central figure, Hélio Oiticica, took inspiration from Brazilian favelas, “a product of fantastic improvisation in creating a ‘vital place’ for communicating not form so much as joy.” Oiticica’s thinking has lived on continuously in many artists since that time. Such artists have attempted to reinterpret the local vernacular with reference to the context of global culture through their observations of everyday life.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

THROUGH 2.20.10

Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt

Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt: Conceptual Color in Print. Judd’s use of color in three print series dating from 1988 to 1993 are on view along with a recent acquisition, Untitled (1993). Judd’s prints are compared and contrasted with prints by his peer, Sol LeWitt. Although identified as a Minimalist artist, LeWitt helped establish Conceptualism as one of the dominant movements of the postwar era. LeWitt’s prints from the early 1970s, made at Kathan Brown’s then-fledgling Crown Point Press, are included as well as his color woodcut, Arcs from Four Corners (1986).

M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco