SAN FRANCISCO ART AND POETRY
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Nov. 12, 1840 Artist Auguste Rodin was largely self-educated, his early life spent working as a craftsman, doing decorative, architectural work. He was a naturalist, and turned away from the idealism of the Greeks, and the decorative beauty of the Baroque and neo-Baroque movements. he saw suffering and conflict as hallmarks of modern art. 
in Michigan in 1866, Voltairine was plagued all her life by poverty, pain, and ill health, and died prematurely at the age of 45 in 1912. She was an American anarchist writer and feminist, a prolific writer and speaker, opposing the state, marriage, and the domination of religion in sexuality and women's lives. She believed that any system was acceptable as long as it did not involve force. Emma Goldman called her "most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced"
ALLEN COHEN Poetry
The police raid the Psychedelic Shop and arrest Allen Cohen, 26, the store clerk, for selling "The Love Book" by Lenore Kandel, on grounds of obscenity. The subsequent trial of Cohen, Ron Thelin and a City Lights Bookstore clerk, Ron Muszalski, becomes the longest criminal trial in San Francisco history to that point. 
Nov 26, 1965 ~Benefit For Vietnam Day Committee ~ San Francisco Mime Troupe Show: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Meltzer at the Berkeley Little Theatre
(now part of Oklahoma). He traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies, wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated newspaper columns, and became a world-famous figure. By the mid-1930s, he was the leading political wit of the Progressive Era, and the top-paid Hollywood movie star, Rogers died in 1935 with aviator Wilsey Post, when their small airplane crashed in Alaska. 
and a well-known firebrand of San Francisco's poetry haunts. Especially beloved in bohemian poetry communities in North Beach and the Mission district of San Francisco, Joie's books and performances are legendary in San Francisco. 
was born in Mondovi, Algeria. Camus writings showed his main interests were Ethics, Humanity, Justice, Love, and Politics.
Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russia. Most known work includes Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. (d.Feb.9 1881)
ONGOING FIRST THURSDAY Bay Area art walks have been cancelled while COVID-19 “shelter in place” mandates are in effect. All SFADA galleries are honoring California's "Shelter in place" orders. FIRST SATURDAY each month: NORTH BEACH FIRST FRIDAY |
Many San Francisco Museums and Galleries are opening Our Iconic museum, SF’s “Legion of Honor”in Lincoln Park |
CANESSA GALLERY Avenue 12 Gallery |
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LOVE IN ACTION 826 VALENCIA |
Children’s Creativity Museum THE RANDALL MUSEUM |
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