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Novellus Systems
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Novellus Systems Inc. was a company founded by Brad Mattson that developed, manufactured, sold, and serviced semiconductor equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. Novellus Systems was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, the company maintains engineering & manufacturing facilities in Tualatin, Oregon and San Jose, California. Also, Novellus has a component design and software development facility in Bangalore, in December 2011, Novellus agreed to be acquired by Lam Research for $3.3 billion. The acquisition was completed in June 2012, Novellus product lines were called ALTUS, ATHENA, GAMMA, INOVA, SABRE, SOLA, SPEED, and VECTOR, SEQUEL and assisted semiconductor companies with manufacturing
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IPad (3rd generation)
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The third-generation iPad is a tablet computer, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It shipped with iOS5.1, which provides a platform for audio-visual media, including electronic books, periodicals, films, music, computer games, presentations. In the US and Canada, nine variations of the third-generation iPad were offered, compared to six in the rest of the world, each variation was available with black or white front glass panels, with options for 16,32, or 64 GB of storage. In North America, connectivity options were Wi-Fi only, Wi-Fi + 4G on Verizon, AT&T, Telus, Rogers, the Wi-Fi + Cellular model includes GPS capability. The tablet was released in ten countries on March 16,2012 and it gained mostly positive reviews, earning praise for its Retina display, processor and 4G capabilities. However, controversy arose when the LTE incompatibilities became known, three million units were sold in the first three days. After only seven months of availability, the third-generation iPad was discontinued on October 23,2012. The third-generation iPad had the shortest lifespan of any iOS product and it is also the last iPad to support the 30-pin dock connector, as the fourth generation iPad and later use the Lightning connector. Speculation about the product began shortly after Apple released the iPad 2, speculation increased after news of a 2,048 by 1,536 pixel screen leaked. During this time, the tablet was called the iPad 3, on February 9,2012, John Paczkowski of All Things Digital stated that Apple’s not holding an event in February – strange, unusual or otherwise. But it is holding one in March – to launch its next iPad, another common rumor at the time was that the tablet would have an Apple A6 processor. On February 29,2012, Apple announced an event scheduled for March 7,2012. The company did not predisclose the subject of the event, the announcement affected the tablet resale market positively. At the event, Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced iOS5.1, a Japanese version of Siri, and the third generation Apple TV before the third-generation iPad. Cook claimed that the new product would be one of the contributors to the emerging post-PC world – a world in which digital life would not be tied to the PC. The March 16,2012, release included eight countries including Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the March 23,2012, release included many European countries, Mexico and Macau. The April 20,2012, release added a dozen countries including South Korea, the April 27,2012, release added nine more countries, including India and South Africa. May 2012 releases added 31 countries, including Brazil and Turkey, on October 23,2012, upon the announcement of the fourth-generation iPad, the third-generation iPad was discontinued
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Contemporary art
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Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century. Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the relevant to ourselves. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that challenge traditional boundaries and defy easy definition. In vernacular English, modern and contemporary are synonyms, resulting in some conflation of the modern art. Some define contemporary art as art produced within our lifetime, recognizing that lifetimes, however, there is a recognition that this generic definition is subject to specialized limitations. The classification of art as a special type of art, rather than a general adjectival phrase. In London, the Contemporary Art Society was founded in 1910 by the critic Roger Fry and others, as a private society for buying works of art to place in public museums. A number of other institutions using the term were founded in the 1930s, such as in 1938 the Contemporary Art Society of Adelaide, Australia, particular points that have been seen as marking a change in art styles include the end of World War II and the 1960s. There has perhaps been a lack of natural break points since the 1960s, and definitions of what contemporary art in the 2010s vary. Art from the past 20 years is likely to be included, and definitions often include art going back to about 1970, the art of the late 20th and early 21st century. Many use the formulation Modern and Contemporary Art, which avoids this problem, smaller commercial galleries, magazines and other sources may use stricter definitions, perhaps restricting the contemporary to work from 2000 onwards. One of the many people have in approaching contemporary artwork is its diversity - diversity of material, form, subject matter. It is distinguished by the lack of a uniform organizing principle, ideology, or -ism that we so often see in other. Broadly speaking, we see Modernism as looking at modernist principals - the focus of the work is self-referential, likewise, Impressionism looks at our perception of a moment through light and color as opposed to attempts at stark realism. Contemporary art, on the hand, does not have one. Its view, instead, is refracted, prismatic, and multi-faceted, reflecting the diversity of the world today, in all of its complexities, contemporary art reflects life as we know it. It can be, therefore, contradictory, confusing, and open-ended, there are, however, a number of common themes that have appeared in contemporary works. Post-modern, post-structuralist, feminist, and Marxist theory have played important roles in the development of theories of art
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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Yerba Buena Gardens
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Yerba Buena Gardens is the name for two blocks of public parks located between Third and Fourth, Mission and Folsom Streets in downtown San Francisco, California. The first block bordered by Mission and Howard Streets was opened on October 11,1993, the second block, between Howard and Folsom Streets, was opened in 1998, with a dedication to Martin Luther King, Jr. by Mayor Willie Brown. A pedestrian bridge over Howard Street connects the two blocks, sitting on top of part of the Moscone Center convention center. Yerba Buena was the name of the town in the Mexican territory of Alta California that became the city of San Francisco, California, in 1999 the Yerba Buena Gardens received the Gold Medal of the biannual Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. Furthermore, the jury applauded the evolution of the development process to an inclusive model involving multiple constituencies. Even during the design stages there were struggles regarding the building program. But what about the kids of the central city, a Redevelopment Agency that hands out free land for art museums for the wealthy in Yerba Buena but cant find funding for a bowling center too has no moral values. Consequently, the SFRA backed down from its plan and the alley was re-included. The original block opened in 1993 contains several art installations. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is located behind a waterfall, the entire memorial was a collaborative project between Sculptor Houston Conwill, Poet Estella Majoza and Architect Joseph De Pace. In the sculptors words, The Memorial is “a sacred space … meant to be experienced as a cultural pilgrimage, an ice skating rink, a bowling alley, and a restored 1905 carousel originally located at Playland-at-the-Beach can also be found in the South block. Eateries within the gardens include the B Restaurant and Grill and the Samovar Tea Lounge on the North blocks terrace, Mos Grill on the South blocks upper walkway, and a snack shop by the carousel. Nearby museums include, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, Childrens Creativity Museum, other exhibiting institutions nearby include SF Planning and Urban Research Association and California Historical Society. The Mexican Museum is planned to be built across Mission Street as part the 53-story Yerba Buena tower, the project is planned to cost $500 million and will complete the Yerba Buena district redevelopment area, which apart from the Yerba Buena Gardens includes the Metreon and Moscone Center. Located within two blocks of Yerba Buena Gardens are many hotels, museums, and retail centers, the St. Regis Museum Tower, W Hotel San Francisco, San Francisco Marriott, Four Seasons, and InterContinental Hotel San Francisco are some of the largest hotels in the area. Retail in the include the Metreon bordering the North block. Moscone Center South of Market, San Francisco, California Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yerba Buena page maintained by the management of gardens
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San Francisco Bay Area
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The San Francisco Bay Area is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses the cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose, San Francisco. The Bay Areas nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The combined statistical area of the region is the second-largest in California, the fifth-largest in the United States, the Bay Area has the second-most Fortune 500 Companies in the United States, and is known for its natural beauty, liberal politics, entrepreneurship, and diversity. The eastern side of the bay, consisting of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, is known locally as the East Bay, the inner East Bay is more densely populated, with generally older buildings, and a more ethnically diverse population. The word Lamorinda was coined by combining the names of the cities it includes, Lafayette, Moraga, walnut Creek is situated east of Lamorinda and north of the San Ramon Valley and, together with Concord, Martinez, and Pleasant Hill comprises Central Contra Costa County. The cities of Antioch, Pittsburg, Brentwood, Oakley and the areas surrounding them comprise East Contra Costa County. The Tri-Valley consists of the Amador, the Livermore, and the San Ramon Valleys, dublin and Pleasanton comprise the Amador Valley, Livermore lies in the Livermore Valley, and the San Ramon Valley consists of Alamo, Danville, Diablo and its namesake, San Ramon. The outer East Bay is connected to the inner East Bay by BART, Interstate 580 to the south, and State Routes State Route 4 to the north, the outer East Bays infrastructure was mostly built up after World War II. This area remains largely white demographically, although the Hispanic and Filipino populations have grown significantly over the past 2–3 decades, the region north of the Golden Gate Bridge is known locally as the North Bay. This area encompasses Marin County, Sonoma County, Napa County, the city of Fairfield, being part of Solano County, is often considered the easternmost city of the North Bay. With few exceptions, this region is affluent, Marin County is ranked as the wealthiest in the state. The North Bay is relatively rural compared to the remainder of the Bay Area, with areas of undeveloped open space, farmland. Santa Rosa in Sonoma County is the North Bays largest city, with a population of 167,815 and a Metropolitan Statistical Area population of 466,891, making it the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. The North Bay is the section of the Bay Area that is not currently served by a commuter rail service. The area from San Francisco to the Silicon Valley, geographically part of the San Francisco Peninsula, is known locally as The Peninsula, many of these families are of foreign background and have significantly contributed to the diversity of the area. Whereas the term peninsula technically refers to the entire geographical San Franciscan Peninsula, in local terms, San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides, the north, east, and west. The city squeezes roughly 870,000 people in under 47 square miles, on any given day, there can be as many as 1 million people in the city because of the commuting population and tourism
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Fumihiko Maki
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Fumihiko Maki is a Japanese architect who teaches at Keio University SFC. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, after studying at the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1952, he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, graduating with a masters degree in 1953. He then studied at Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduating with a Master of Architecture degree in 1954 and this building remained his only completed work in the United States until 1993, when he completed the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts building in San Francisco. In 2006, he returned to Washington University in St. Louis to design the new home for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, in 1960 he returned to Japan to help establish the Metabolism Group. He worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York City and for Sert Jackson and Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts and founded Maki, in 2006, he was invited to join the judging panel for an international design competition for the new Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Maki designed a building for the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After completing a $330 million expansion of the United Nations building in Manhattan, while it has criticized his 51 Astor Place project as out of place, New York magazine called Tower 4 pretty exquisite. Maki will be designing the London campus of the Aga Khan University along with a centre as part of the Kings Cross development project. Steinberg Hall at Washington University Hillside Terrace work at Expo 70, with Kenzo Tange and others St. Louis, June 196410 Stories of Collective Housing, by a+t research group. Tokio, 1967-1998 Maki and Associates, official site Pritzker Prize – Fumiho Maki Interview with Fumihiko Maki Images of Tower 4, WTC
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South of Market, San Francisco
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SoMa is home to many of the citys museums, to the headquarters of several major software and Internet companies, and to the Moscone Conference Center. The areas boundaries are Market Street to the northwest, San Francisco Bay to the northeast, Mission Creek to the southeast and it is the part of the city in which the street grid runs parallel and perpendicular to Market Street. As with many neighborhoods, the boundaries of the South of Market area are fuzzy. From 1848 until the construction of the Central Freeway in the 1950s, since the 1950s, the boundary has been either 10th Street, 11th Street, or the Central Freeway. Similarly, the entire Mission Bay neighborhood may or may not be counted as part of SoMa, redevelopment agencies, social service agencies, and community activists frequently exclude the more prosperous areas between the waterfront and 3rd Street. Some social service agencies and nonprofits count the economically distressed area around 6th, 7th, the terms South of Market and SoMa refer to both a comparatively large district of the city as well as a much smaller neighborhood. Before being called South of Market this area was called South of the Slot, while the cable cars have long since disappeared from Market Street, some old timers still refer to this area as South of the Slot. Since 1847, the name of the South of Market area has been the 100 Vara Survey or simply 100 Vara for short. Since the mid-20th century, the name has been gradually forgotten, and today is found mainly in history books, legal documents, title deeds. At the time, the streets of San Francisco were aligned approximately with the points, running north to south. Each block was divided into six lots 50 varas on a side. e, northeast to southwest, and northwest to southeast. He also decided to make the new blocks twice as long and twice as wide, finally, OFarrell created a grand promenade linking the old pueblo with the new subdivision, Market Street. Since then, downtown San Francisco north of Lower Market Street has been known as 50 Vara. Rincon Hill became an enclave for the wealthy, while nearby South Park became an enclave for the middle class. The neighborhood became a largely working-class and lower-middle-class community of recent European immigrants, sweatshops, power stations, flophouses, the 1906 earthquake completely destroyed the area, and many of the quakes fatalities occurred there. Following the quake, the area was rebuilt with wider than usual streets, the construction of the Bay Bridge and U. S. Route 101 during the 1930s saw large swaths of the area demolished, including most of the original Rincon Hill. The waterfront redevelopment of the Embarcadero in the 1950s pushed a new population into this area in the 1960s, the incipient gay community, and the leather community in particular. From 1962 until 1982, the gay community grew and thrived throughout South of Market, most visibly along Folsom Street
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Joseph Alioto
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Joseph Lawrence Alioto was the 36th mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1968 to 1976. Alioto was born in San Francisco in 1916 and his father was a Sicilian immigrant who owned and operated several fish processing companies. His mother, Domenica Mae Lazio, was born in San Francisco in 1893 and his parents met on a fishing boat while escaping the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He attended Sacred Heart High School and he graduated with honors from St. Marys College, Moraga, California in 1937 and from law school at The Catholic University of America with honors in 1940. Alioto worked for the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and then for the Board of Economic Warfare and he returned to San Francisco after World War II and started an antitrust practice, representing Walt Disney and Samuel Goldwyn, among others, eventually becoming a millionaire. In Radovich, the Supreme Court held that professional football, unlike baseball, was subject to antitrust laws, continental Ore is one of the most comprehensive and important antitrust cases ever decided by the Supreme Court. In 1980, he represented Al Davis and the Oakland Raiders in a landmark antitrust case entitled Los Angeles Colisuem Commission v, the case established the right of football franchises to move to football markets throughout the United States without the approval of other franchise owners. In 1993, he represented his father-in-law Billy Sullivan in his lawsuit against the NFL, the court ruled that Sullivan was forced by the league to sell his team at below market value and awarded him $114 million. Alioto served on the San Francisco Board of Education from 1948 to 1954, Alioto on the death of California State Senator J. Eugene McAteer, went from campaign finance chairman to candidate for mayor. He entered the race in 1967 when John Shelley, the incumbent, bowed out of the race, allegedly because of poor health. Joseph L. Alioto was inaugurated on January 8,1968, served a term, Alioto delivered the speech nominating Hubert Humphrey at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. There were rumors that Humphrey would select Alioto as his running mate, an article in the September 23,1969 issue of Look magazine claimed that Alioto had ties to the Mafioso Jimmy Fratianno. Alioto sued the magazine for libel and won a $450,000 judgment, in the course of the litigation, Alioto proved that Look, desperate and on the verge of bankruptcy, simply conjured up an alleged mob meeting in Vacaville, California at the Nut Tree Restaurant. He later claimed that he had documents that showed that the Nixon administration leaked disinformation to the magazine in order to stall his career, attorney General O’Connell had maintained Public Utility Districts as private clients during his time as AG. The Public Utility Districts were suing electrical manufactures that were fixing prices at a high level. The case began in 1962 and O’Connell retained Alioto, a very successful anti-trust attorney, originally, Alioto agreed to receive 15% of what was awarded with a $1 million cap. Later, O’Connell, apparently without telling his clients, abolished the fee ceiling, Alioto ended up receiving approximately $2.3 million and gave $802,815 of those fees to O’Connell and Faler. The state and other groups sued to have the entire $2.3 million returned, the trial took six months and jury unanimously found the three were entitled to the $2.3 million
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Skid row
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A skid row or skid road is an impoverished area, typically urban, inhabited by the poor, the homeless, or others considered disreputable or forgotten by society. A skid row may be anything from an urban district to a red-light district to a gathering area for the homeless. In general skid row areas are inhabited or frequented by individuals marginalized by poverty or through drug addiction, urban areas considered skid rows often feature cheap taverns, dilapidated buildings, and drug dens as well as other features of urban blight. Used figuratively it may indicate the state of a persons life. The term skid road originally referred to the path along which timber workers skidded logs and its current sense appears to have originated in the Pacific Northwest. The term skid road dates back to the 17th century, when it referred to a log road, used to skid or drag logs through woods and bog. The term was in usage in the mid-19th century and came to refer not just to the corduroy roads themselves. When a logger was fired he was sent down the skid road, the source of the term skid road as an urban district is heavily debated, and is generally identified as originating in either Seattle or Vancouver. The name Skid Road was in use in Seattle by 1850s when the citys historic Pioneer Square neighborhood began to expand from its commercial core. The district centered near the end of what is now Yesler Way, Henry Yesler acquired land from Doc Maynard at a small point of land at what is today near the intersection of 1st Avenue and Yesler Way. He also acquired a swath of land 450 feet wide from his property up First Hill to a box of land about 10 acres in size full of timber spanning what is today 20th to 30th Avenues. His steam-powered logging mill was built in 1853 on the point of land that looked south towards an island that has since been filled in around and is the heart of todays Pioneer Square. The mill operated seven days a week,24 hours per day on the waterfront, the streets end near the mill, attracted cookhouses and inexpensive hotels for itinerant workers, along with several establishments that served beer and liquor. The Skid Road was built on that 450 foot wide slice of land from the top of First Hill to the mill on the point. Timber cut in nearby forests was greased and skidded down a long, since the building of the mill much of what is todays Seattle is the result of extensive terra-forming by the local people to make the hilly landscape of Seattle habitable. At the time of the building of the mill it was some of the flat land available. The Skid Road became the line between the affluent members of Seattle and the mill workers and more rowdy portion of the population. The road became Mill Street, and eventually Yesler Way, the 100-block of East Hastings Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, the heart of that citys skid road neighborhood, lies on a historical skid road
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George Moscone
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George Richard Moscone was an Italian-American attorney and Democratic politician. He was the 37th mayor of San Francisco, California from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978, Moscone served in the California State Senate from 1967 until becoming Mayor. In the Senate, he served as Majority Leader, Moscone was born in the Italian-American enclave of San Franciscos Marina District, California. His father was George Joseph Moscone, a guard at nearby San Quentin. Moscone attended St. Brigids, and then St. Ignatius College Preparatory and he then attended College of the Pacific and played basketball for the Tigers. While in college, Moscone befriended John L. Burton, who would become a member of the U. S. House of Representatives. Moscone then studied at University of California, Hastings College of the Law and he met and married Gina Bondanza, in 1954. The Moscones would go on to have four children, after serving in the United States Navy, Moscone started private practice in 1956. John Burtons brother, Phillip, a member of the California State Assembly, though he lost that race, Moscone would go on to win a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1963. On the Board, Moscone was known for his defense of the poor, racial minorities, in 1966 Moscone ran for and won a seat in the California State Senate, representing the 10th District in San Francisco County. This alliance was known as the Burton Machine and included John Burton, Phillip Burton, soon after his election to the State Senate, Moscone was elected by his party to serve as Majority Leader. He was reelected to the 10th District seat in 1970 and to the newly redistricted 6th District seat, representing parts of San Francisco and San Mateo Counties and he successfully sponsored legislation to institute a school lunch program for California students. In 1974 Moscone briefly considered a run for governor of California, as a heterosexual, Moscone was considered ahead of his time as an early proponent of gay rights. In conjunction with his friend and ally in the Assembly, Willie Brown, the repeal was signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown. Moscone decided in 1975 to run for Mayor of San Francisco, in a close race in November of that year, Moscone placed first with conservative city supervisor John Barbagelata second and moderate supervisor Dianne Feinstein coming in third. Moscone and Barbagelata thus both advanced to the runoff election in December where Moscone narrowly defeated the conservative supervisor by fewer than 5,000 votes. Liberals also won the other top executive offices that year as Joseph Freitas was elected District attorney. Members of the Peoples Temple leftist religious cult saturated San Francisco neighborhoods, distributing slate cards for Moscone, Joseph Freitas, the Peoples Temple also worked to get out the vote in precincts where Moscone received a 12 to 1 vote margin over Barbagelata
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Elliott Carter
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Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was an American composer who was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, then returned to the United States, after an early neoclassical phase, his style shifted to an emphasis on atonality and rhythmic complexity. His compositions are known and performed throughout the world, they include orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental and he was productive in his later years, publishing more than 40 works between the ages of 90 and 100, and over 20 more after he turned 100 in 2008. He completed his last work, Epigrams for piano trio, on August 13,2012, Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was born in Manhattan on December 11,1908, the son of a wealthy lace importer. Carters father was Elliott Carter Sr. and his mother was the former Florence Chambers, as a teenager, he developed an interest in music, and received encouragement in this regard from Charles Ives. While he was a student at the Horace Mann School, he wrote an letter to Ives. In 1924, a 15-year-old Carter was in the audience when Pierre Monteux conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the New York première of The Rite of Spring, according to a 2008 report. When Carter attended Harvard, starting in 1926, Ives took him under his wing and made sure he went to the BSO concerts conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, although Carter majored in English at Harvard College, he also studied music there and at the nearby Longy School of Music. His professors at Harvard included Walter Piston and Gustav Holst and he sang with the Harvard Glee Club and did graduate work in music at Harvard, from which he received a masters degree in music in 1932. He then went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, Carter worked with Boulanger from 1932 to 1935, and in that year received a doctorate in music. Later that same year, he returned to the US and wrote music for the Ballet Caravan, on July 6,1939, Carter married Helen Frost-Jones. They had one child, a son, David Chambers Carter, from 1940 to 1944, he taught in the program, including music, at St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland. During World War II, he worked for the Office of War Information and he later held teaching posts at the Peabody Conservatory, Columbia University, Queens College, New York, Yale University, Cornell University and the Juilliard School. In 1967, he was appointed a member of the American Academy of Arts, in 1981, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, in 1985 the National Medal of Arts. In 1983 Carter was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal for outstanding contribution to the arts by the MacDowell Colony and he lived with his wife in the same apartment in Greenwich Village from the time they bought it in 1945 to her death in 2003. Carter composed his only opera What Next. in 1997-1998 at the behest of conductor Daniel Barenboim for the Berlin State Opera. The work premiered in Berlin in 1999 and had its first staging in the United States at the Tanglewood Music Festival in 2006 under the baton of James Levine. He later considered writing operas on the themes of suicide and a story by Henry James
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Long Now Foundation
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The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is a public, non-profit organization based in San Francisco that seeks to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as todays faster/cheaper mindset, the Long Now Foundation hopes to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years, and so uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem. The organisations logo, a capital X with an overline, is a representation of 10,000 in Roman numerals, the purpose of the Clock of the Long Now is to construct a timepiece that will operate with minimum human intervention for ten millennia. Its power source should be renewable but similarly unlootable, a prototype of a potential final clock candidate was activated on December 31,1999, and is currently on display at the Science Museum at London. The Foundation hopes to construct the finished Clock at Mount Washington south of Great Basin National Park near Ely, the Rosetta Project is an effort to preserve all languages that have a high likelihood of extinction over the period from 2000 to 2100. These include many languages whose native speakers number in the thousands or fewer, other languages with many more speakers are considered by the project to be endangered because of the increasing importance of English as an international language of commerce and culture. Samples of such languages are to be inscribed onto a disc of nickel alloy three inches across, a Version 1.0 of the disc was completed on November 3,2008. The Long Bet Project was created by the Long Now Foundation to propose and keep track of bets on long-term events, the Long Now Foundation describes The Long Bet Project as a public arena for enjoyably competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake. One example bet would be on whether people will fly on pilotless aircraft by 2030. Bets that were resolved in 2010 included predictions about peak oil, print on demand, modem obsolescence, in November 2003, the Long Now Foundation began a series of monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking with a lecture by Brian Eno. The seminars are held in the San Francisco Bay Area and have focused on policy and thinking, scenario planning, singularity. The seminars are available for download in various formats from the Long Now Foundation and they are intended to nudge civilization toward making long-term thinking automatic and common. As part of the Seminar series, there are debates on areas of long term concern. The point of Long Now debates is not win-lose, the point is public clarity and deep understanding, leading to action graced with nuance and built-in adaptivity, with long-term responsibility in mind. In operation, There are two debaters, Alice and Bob, Alice takes the podium, makes her argument. Then Bob takes her place, but before he can present his counter-argument, he must summarize Alice’s argument to her satisfaction — a demonstration of respect and good faith. Only when Alice agrees that Bob has got it right is he permitted to proceed with his own argument — and then, mutual understanding is enforced by a reciprocal requirement to describe the others argument to their satisfaction, with the goal being more understanding after the event than there was beforehand. Opened in June 2014, The Interval was designed as social space in the foundations Fort Mason facility in San Francisco
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Inbal Pinto
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Inbal Pinto is an Israeli contemporary dancer, choreographer and dance company artistic director. Inbal was Born in Nahariya, Israel, and began her training at the studio of Ilana Kalif. After graduating high school she joined the IDF and worked as a designer at the office of the IDF spokesman. Inbal was studying graphic design at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and her first experience as a choreographer was a collaboration with Sally-Anne Friedland for the piece Dov Hoz 19. She joined the Young company of Batsheva Dance Company as a dancer, Inbal was a participate at the IPC program at the American Dance Festival in 1997 and 1998. She also won the Ministry of Culture Award for Dance in 2007, in 2011 she won again the Ministry of Culture Award. Inbal was creating choreography for classical Theatre plays such as Eugène Ionesco’s “The Chairs” and Shakespeare’s “Romeo, in 1992 Inbal created “Dio-Can” that won the Gvanim B’Machol Dance competition and in 1993 created “Versus” for the young Batsheva Dance Company. In 2007 Inbal and Avshalom were invited by Robby Barnett Artistic Director of Pilobolus Dance Theatre to collaborate, Inbal together with Avshalom is responsible not only for the Choreography but also for the Stage Direction and the Set and Costumes Design. In 2013 Pinto and Pollak Directed, Choreographed and Design the Set and Costume for the Musical “The Cat That Lived a Million Times” an adaptation for a book by Yoko Sano In Tokyo
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The Cheerleaders
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The Cheerleaders is a 1973 comedy film directed by Paul Glickler, starring Stephanie Fondue and Denise Dillaway. The film was made in the summer of 1972 in the cities of Cupertino, California and Sunnyvale, the high school scenes were shot at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California. The administration of Monta Vista high school claimed to not be aware of the racy elements, many of the football player extras were recent graduates of local high schools from these two cities. The red uniforms in the representing the home team high school Amarosa High School were actual uniforms of Fremont High School in Sunnyvale. Many of the football extras were recent high school graduates of Fremont High School. One of the extras is Carl Ekern, who later played professional football for the Los Angeles Rams. He was a student football player at San Jose State University when the movie was made, the films success spawned a series of sequels during the 1970s. A group of school cheerleaders have sex with the opposing teams players to make them too tired to play football properly. The film courted controversy due to its plot and subject matter, the cheerleaders are seen seducing, among others, the football coach, a female gym coach. There was also female on male rape when the cheerleaders kidnap, in areas where the age of consent was 18 at the time, or where the laws on consent prohibited under-18s having sex with over-18s, there was controversy over statutory rape. List of American films of 1973 The Cheerleaders at the Internet Movie Database
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Apple Inc.
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Apple is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Apples consumer software includes the macOS and iOS operating systems, the media player, the Safari web browser. Its online services include the iTunes Store, the iOS App Store and Mac App Store, Apple Music, Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976 to develop and sell personal computers. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. in January 1977, Apple joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average in March 2015. In November 2014, Apple became the first U. S. company to be valued at over US$700 billion in addition to being the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization. The company employs 115,000 full-time employees as of July 2015 and it operates the online Apple Store and iTunes Store, the latter of which is the worlds largest music retailer. Consumers use more than one billion Apple products worldwide as of March 2016, Apples worldwide annual revenue totaled $233 billion for the fiscal year ending in September 2015. This revenue accounts for approximately 1. 25% of the total United States GDP.1 billion, the corporation receives significant criticism regarding the labor practices of its contractors and its environmental and business practices, including the origins of source materials. Apple was founded on April 1,1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, the Apple I kits were computers single-handedly designed and hand-built by Wozniak and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club. The Apple I was sold as a motherboard, which was less than what is now considered a personal computer. The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 and was market-priced at $666.66, Apple was incorporated January 3,1977, without Wayne, who sold his share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak for $800. Multimillionaire Mike Markkula provided essential business expertise and funding of $250,000 during the incorporation of Apple, during the first five years of operations revenues grew exponentially, doubling about every four months. Between September 1977 and September 1980 yearly sales grew from $775,000 to $118m, the Apple II, also invented by Wozniak, was introduced on April 16,1977, at the first West Coast Computer Faire. It differed from its rivals, the TRS-80 and Commodore PET, because of its character cell-based color graphics. While early Apple II models used ordinary cassette tapes as storage devices, they were superseded by the introduction of a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive and interface called the Disk II. The Apple II was chosen to be the platform for the first killer app of the business world, VisiCalc. VisiCalc created a market for the Apple II and gave home users an additional reason to buy an Apple II. Before VisiCalc, Apple had been a distant third place competitor to Commodore, by the end of the 1970s, Apple had a staff of computer designers and a production line
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IPod
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The iPod is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on October 23,2001, about 8½ months after iTunes was released, the most recent iPod redesigns were announced on July 15,2015. There are three current versions of the iPod, the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle, the compact iPod Nano, like other digital music players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod Shuffle to 128 GB for the iPod Touch. Before the release of iOS5, the branding was used for the media player included with the iPhone and iPad. As of iOS5, separate apps named Music and Videos are standardized across all iOS-powered products, while the iPhone and iPad have essentially the same media player capabilities as the iPod line, they are generally treated as separate products. During the middle of 2010, iPhone sales overtook those of the iPod, in mid-2015, a new model of the iPod Touch was announced by Apple, and was officially released on the Apple store on July 15,2015. The sixth generation iPod Touch includes a variety of spec improvements such as the upgraded A8 processor. The core is over 5 times faster than models and is built to be roughly on par with the iPhone 5S. It is available in 5 different colors, Space grey, pink, gold, silver, though the iPod was released in 2001, its price and Mac-only compatibility caused sales to be relatively slow until 2004. The iPod line came from Apples digital hub category, when the company began creating software for the market of personal digital devices. The aesthetic was inspired by the 1958 Braun T3 transistor radio designed by Dieter Rams, the product was developed in less than one year and unveiled on October 23,2001. Jobs announced it as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put 1,000 songs in your pocket, Apple did not develop the iPod software entirely in-house, instead using PortalPlayers reference platform based on two ARM cores. The platform had rudimentary software running on a commercial microkernel embedded operating system, portalPlayer had previously been working on an IBM-branded MP3 player with Bluetooth headphones. Apple contracted another company, Pixo, to design and implement the user interface under the direct supervision of Steve Jobs. As development progressed, Apple continued to refine the softwares look, starting with the iPod Mini, the Chicago font was replaced with Espy Sans. Later iPods switched fonts again to Podium Sans—a font similar to Apples corporate font, color display iPods then adopted some Mac OS X themes like Aqua progress bars, and brushed metal meant to evoke a combination lock. In 2006 Apple presented an edition for iPod 5G of Irish rock band U2
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IPad
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IPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. which run the iOS mobile operating system. The first iPad was released on April 3,2010, the most recent iPad models are the 9. 7-inch iPad Pro released on March 31,2016, the user interface is built around the devices multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard. The iPad includes built-in Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity on select models, as of January 2015, there have been over 250 million iPads sold. IPad tablets are second most popular, by sales, against Android-based ones, since 2013, an iPad can shoot video, take photos, play music, and perform Internet functions such as web-browsing and emailing. Other functions – games, reference, GPS navigation, social networking, as of March 2016, the App Store has more than one million apps for the iPad by Apple and third parties. There have been six versions of the iPad, the first generation established design precedents, such as the 9. 7-inch screen size and button placement, that have persisted through all models. The third generation added a Retina Display, the new Apple A5X processor with a graphics processor, a 5-megapixel camera, HD 1080p video recording, voice dictation. The fourth generation added the Apple A6X processor and replaces the 30-pin connector with an all-digital Lightning connector, the iPad Air added the Apple A7 processor and the Apple M7 motion coprocessor, and reduced the thickness for the first time since the iPad 2. The iPad Air 2 added the Apple A8X processor, the Apple M8 motion coprocessor, an 8-megapixel camera, and the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, there have been four versions of the iPad Mini. The first generation features a screen size of 7.9 inches and features similar internal specifications as the iPad 2 except it uses the Lightning connector. The iPad Mini 2 features the Retina Display, the Apple A7 processor, the iPad Mini 3 features the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. The iPad Mini 4 features the Apple A8 and the Apple M8 motion coprocessor, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said in a 1983 speech that the companys strategy is really simple. What we want to do is we want to put a great computer in a book that you can carry around with you. And we really want to do it with a link in it so you don’t have to hook up to anything and you’re in communication with all of these larger databases. Apples first tablet computer was the Newton MessagePad 100, introduced in 1993, powered by an ARM6 processor core developed by ARM, Apple also developed a prototype PowerBook Duo based tablet, the PenLite, but decided not to sell it in order to avoid hurting MessagePad sales. Apple released several more Newton-based PDAs, the one, the MessagePad 2100, was discontinued in 1998. Apple re-entered the mobile-computing markets in 2007 with the iPhone, smaller than the iPad, but featuring a camera and mobile phone, it pioneered the multi-touch finger-sensitive touchscreen interface of Apples iOS mobile operating system. By late 2009, the release had been rumored for several years
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SF Camerawork
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SF Camerawork is a non-profit art gallery devoted to new and emerging photographers. It is located at 1011 Market Street in San Francisco, a number of artists have become prominent after first showing at SF Camerawork, including Joel-Peter Witkin and Robert Mapplethorpe. John Lamkin founded SF Camerawork in 1974 calling it Lamkin Camerawork Gallery
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Intersection for the Arts
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Intersection for the Arts, established in 1965, is the oldest alternative non-profit art space in San Francisco, California. Intersections reading series is the longest continuous reading series outside of an institution in the state of California. Intersection produces and presents new and experimental work in the fields of literature, theater, music, intersections artists regularly provide classes and workshops to the local community. Intersection also maintains a program for emerging literary, visual. Intersection is located in the SoMa district of San Francisco, on 925 Mission Street, Intersection was founded in the Tenderloin in 1965 by an interfaith coalition of three churches. The founding Director was Laird Sutton and full-time staff members were poetry director Adrian Ravarour, Tom Dobson, Paul Donetti, by 1967, it moved to North Beach and remained for 20 years. Robin Williams, Father Guido Sarducci, Whoopie Goldberg, Peter Coyote, Bill Irwin, gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ishmael Reed and Margaret Atwood read there. In 1985 it lost its North Beach space and a later, relocated to 766 Valencia Street in the Mission District, moving again in 1989. Campo Santo Theatre Company, Joe Goode and Erika Chong Shuch, denis Johnson and Dave Eggers read there. Then it relocated to 925 Mission Street, Suite 109, a 5M space in The Chronicle building at Fifth Street, over the years, Intersection has evolved into a more diverse organization with a more prominent profile, but maintains strong ties with the local community. Intersection has worked with a range of artists including Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ondaatje, David Henry Hwang, Carolyn Forché, outside of academic institutions, Intersection for the Arts literary series is the longest continual reading series in the state of California. In addition to producing its own work, Intersection for the Arts provides members of its incubation program assistance in funding, developing, currently the Intersection Incubator provides support to more than 120 art projects and organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area across numerous disciplines and levels of experience. Intersection for the Arts Intersection for the Arts - History
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The Lab (organization)
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The Lab, located in San Franciscos Redstone Building, is a not-for-profit arts organization and performance space founded in 1984. The Lab believes that if it gives artists enough time, space, and funding to realize their vision, as a site of constant iteration and indeterminacy, The Lab is, above all, a catalyst for artistic experimentation. Founded in 1984 by Alan Millar, John DiStefano, Laura Brun and other art students from San Francisco State University, the Lab, located in a two-story building at 1805 and 1807 Divisadero Street, featured a black box theater upstairs and a gallery space downstairs. In 1985, Co-LAB renamed itself as The LAB under the auspices of Alan Millars non-profit The•art•re•grüp, in 1995, The Lab relocated to the historic Redstone Building in San Francisco’s Mission District
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San Francisco Arts Commission
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The San Francisco Arts Commission is the official San Francisco County, USA arts council. The San Francisco Arts Commission was established in 1932 and it is a city agency and the commission is appointed by the mayor. The Board of Supervisors must approve its budget, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is the contemporary art exhibitions program of the Commission. The other locations are a storefront art gallery at 155 Grove Street, across from City Hall, founded in 1970, the Gallery commissions new works, collaborates with arts and community organizations and supports artist’s projects. Admission to the gallery is free, the art commission has many functions and sponsors many programs. One of its functions is to approve the design of any built by the city. It oversees the selection of art enrichment in the forms of graphics, murals and sculpture for civic buildings, the commission oversees the city-owned cultural centers - among them the historic Bayview Opera House, the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts and the African American Art and Culture Complex. The Community Arts and Education Program supports programs that enrich the fabric of the communities of life, giving opportunities for creative. This egalitarian spirit carries on the values of the people who started the program in 1967 of nurturing the arts for and by the people where they live, other Arts Commission programs are an annual city art festival and a pops concert series. The commissions Writers Corps brings writers into public schools and it was a national trailblazer in nurturing art in places outside the circles of high culture. The program expanded under the direction of Stephen Goldstine and it was during his tenure, from 1970 to 78, that the program tapped into federal money to help fund local artists. San Francisco, Arts for the City, Civic Art and Urban Change, official San Francisco Arts Commission website Arts Education Cultural Equity Grants Street Artists Program
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Southern Exposure (art space)
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Southern Exposure is a not-for-profit arts organization and alternative art space founded in 1974 in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. SoEx offers visual artists the opportunity to work in formats and contexts that extend and challenge their artistic development, an artist-run Curatorial Committee made up of a rotating group of 8 artists and 2 staff members selects artists to develop and present new ideas. Southern Exposures exhibition program is curated by a committee of artists from the community, each year, SoEx has a juried exhibition with an open call. The show is curated by a respected international curator (past curators of the exhibition have included Magali Arriola, Tom Finkelpearl. There is no fee for artists to submit their work for review, SoExs Artists in Education program provides intensive art education programs to hundreds of underserved youth each year through in-school, after-school, and summer arts programs. SoEx provides teaching opportunities for artists and connects these artists to youth to provide critical and conceptual models for addressing the challenges of urban life. One of SoExs main goals is to support the development of artists so they are able to live. Since moving from Project Artaud in 2006, Southern Exposure has supported offsite projects which happen in the city of San Francisco, SoExs supported projects include rebargroup which mapped and used San Franciscos privately owned public spaces. SoEx Off-Site commissions new temporary work throughout the San Francisco Bay Area that intervenes, public art is the newest addition to its programmatic agenda, and SoEx is one of only a few venues committed to supporting emerging artists working in the public realm. SoEx provides access to art through its Monster Drawing Rally, Auction. SoEx produces documentation for every project as a way to stimulate dialogue and engagement with the artwork, SoEx considers documentation invaluable to exhibiting artists as it chronicles their projects and provides them with an immediate resource to use in promoting their work
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Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
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The museum owes its origin to a donation to the city of San Francisco by Chicago millionaire Avery Brundage, who was a major collector of Asian art. The Society for Asian Art, incorporated in 1958, was the group that formed specifically to gain Avery Brundages collection, the museum opened in 1966 as a wing of the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park. Brundage continued to make donations to the museum, including the bequest of all his personal collection of Asian art on his death in 1975. In total, Brundage donated more than 7,700 Asian art objects to San Francisco, until 2003, the museum shared a space with the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. As the museum’s collection grew, the facilities in Golden Gate Park were no longer sufficient to display or even house the collection, in 1987 Mayor Dianne Feinstein proposed a plan to revitalize Civic Center that included relocating the museum to the Main Library. In 1995, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Chong-Moon Lee made a $15 million donation to launch the campaign for a new building for the museum. Lord Cultural Resources, a professional practice, was also commissioned to undertake a three-part sequence of planning studies for the relocation of the Museum. The old Main library was a Beaux Arts-style building designed by George Kelham in 1917, the new $160.5 million project, designed by Gae Aulenti, introduced an indoor sky-lit court to provide a dramatic central core to the museum. Removing some interior walls, Aulenti created a sense of openness to facilitate visitor movement, the new 185, 000-square-foot museum increased the exhibition space by approximately 75 percent compared to the former Golden Gate Park location. In October 2011, the museum launched a new identity, designed by the branding agency Wolff Olins, the logo is an upside down A, representing the idea of approaching Asian art from a new perspective. In March,2016, the announced that it will build an additional new pavilion to its current San Francisco Civic Center Building. The new pavilion will sit atop an existing, lower-level wing on the museum’s Hyde Street side, the collection has approximately 18,000 works of art and artifacts from all major Asian countries and traditions, some of which are as much as 6,000 years old. Galleries are devoted to the arts of South Asia, Iran and Central Asia, Southeast Asia, there are 2,500 works on display in the permanent collection. A Japanese tea house is displayed on the exhibition floor of the museum. This teahouse was built in Kyoto, disassembled, shipped to San Francisco, the Tea House was designed by architect Osamu Sato as a functioning teahouse, as well as a display case. It is a three and three-quarters mat room, 49-Mile Scenic Drive List of museums with major collections of Asian art Asian Art Museum official website
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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are a combined art museum and repertory movie theater and archive, associated with the University of California, Berkeley. The director is Lawrence Rinder who was appointed in 2008, the building underwent updates beginning in 2009 and which finished in 2015. The archive and art moved from its original home to a new location on Center Street. The museum was founded in 1963 after a donation was made to the university from artist, a competition to design the building was announced in 1964, and the museum opened in 1970. It also offers the The MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art, the Pacific Film Archive was founded by Sheldon Renan and began screening films in 1966 and specializes in international films. The PFA also includes a library which includes a database of documentation associated with the films. The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program, the former Berkeley Art Museum building was built in 1970 and designed by Mario Ciampi. The building was deemed unsafe in 1997, and iron braces were added in 2001 to slightly improve its safety. In 1999, the Pacific Film Archive moved to a building across the street. In 2008, BAM/PFA unveiled plans for a new arts center, to be designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito and located in downtown Berkeley. However, in 2009, those plans were cancelled, in 2011, BAM/PFA presented the schematic design for the $100 million transformation of a former printing plant into its new home, designed by the New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Construction began in 2013 and the building was expected to be completed in 2015 and it opened to the public on January 31,2016. List of film archives Official BAM/PFA Website Blook CineFiles Film Document Database
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Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
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The museum, which opened in 1894, consists of over 130,000 square feet of space, including sculpture gardens. The Cantor Center houses one of the largest collections of Auguste Rodin sculptures, with 199 works by Rodin, most in bronze but also other media, museum opened in 1894, one of the few museums founded by a private family with a general art collection. By 1905, the museum was known for its collection of Asian art, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake leveled two wings of the building, destroying the Roman, Egyptian and Asian galleries. Three-quarters of the building were damaged beyond repair, the earthquake, coupled with the death of co-founder Jane Stanford, affected the museums budget. The museum did not have its own endowment outside of the University, the building fell into disrepair and curatorial duties eventually stopped. He completely reorganized the museum and began a series of exhibitions at both venues. According to the Daily Palo Alto Times de Lemos maintained the museum “as a working unit of the University itself, with collections that can be consulted with educational benefit to the students. ”Part of the museums space was used by natural science departments before closing in 1945. The museums collection was inventoried and works of less interest and aesthetic merit were deaccessioned, a number of the original works from the Stanford family collection were deaccessioned due to the aesthetic taste of the 1950s. In May 1951,2,000 visitors were welcomed into the museum for a two-day trial visit and this allowed the museum to examine if community interest was high enough to justify reopening the museum. In 1953, the Committee for Art at Stanford was founded, with the intention of recruiting members, for the next 24 years, the museum worked to expand and conserve its collection, and develop programming, educational services and publications. In 1985, professor Albert Elsen worked with art collector B, Gerald Cantor and other donors, to open the B. In 1989, the museum suffered another earthquake, the Loma Prieta which caused severe damage, Stanford hired Thomas K. Seligman, in 1991, to direct the rebuilding of the museum. Seligman plan was to redefine the museum as a center, stressing the institutions opportunity to educate Stanfords students, school children. The museum reopened in 1999 as the Iris & Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts and in July 2005, connie Wolf was director of the Cantor museum from 2012 to 2016. After being heavily damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, the Center was designed by the architectural firm Ennead Architects. The project cost $36.8 million, which included an upgrade of the entire 78,000 square foot historical building. The Rodin Sculpture Garden was improved, and new gardens were installed for contemporary works, the new wing added an additional 12,000 square feet of exhibition space for modern and contemporary collections. Contemporary architecture is blended with the original 1891 building, with a glass wall
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Cartoon Art Museum
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The Cartoon Art Museum is a California art museum that specializes in the art of comics and cartoons. It is the museum in the Western United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of all forms of cartoon art. The permanent collection features some 7,000 pieces as of 2015, including original animation cels, until September 2015, the museum was located in the Yerba Buena Gardens cultural district of San Francisco, in the South of Market neighborhood. It is currently seeking a new long-term home, the Museum was founded in 1984 by comic art enthusiasts, with its primary founder being Malcolm Whyte, the publisher of Troubador Press. CAMs first incarnation had no fixed location, instead organizing showings at other local museums, in 1987, with the help of an endowment from cartoonist Charles Schulz, it established a home on the second floor of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin Building in the South of Market area. In late 1994 the museum temporarily closed while it moved locations again, primary founder Malcom Whyte retired from the museums board of directors around the same time. In 1997, the museum suffered through serious difficulties, and was almost forced to close—this was despite a new endowment fund from the Schulz Foundation. Jenny E. Robb served as curator of the Cartoon Art Museum from 2000–2005, current curator Andrew Farago took over from Robb in 2005. In 2001, the moved to a ground-floor location at 655 Mission Street in SoMa. It closed the location in mid-September 2015 after the lease expired, the award, which is co-sponsored by the Charles M. Schulz Museum, includes a statuette of Snoopy holding a pen and leaning on an inkwell. The award debuted in 1998, and multiple winners were announced each year until 2001, after a six-year hiatus, the award was again presented in 2007. The most recent Sparky Award was given in 2015, the Sparky Award has been presented at various venues, including the San Diego Comic-Con and the New York Comic Con. List of Sparky Award winners, 1998—Charles M and it also offers lectures and operates a research library, a classroom and a bookstore
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Legion of Honor (museum)
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The Legion of Honor is a part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The name is used both for the collection and for the building in which it is housed. Holleins tenure began on June 1,2016, the Legion of Honor was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder Adolph B. The building is a replica, by George Applegarth and H. The museum building occupies a site in Lincoln Park in the northwest of the city. Most of the surrounding Lincoln Park Golf Course is on the site of a field called the Golden Gate Cemetery that the City had bought in 1867. The cemetery was closed in 1908 and the bodies were relocated to Colma, during seismic retrofitting in the 1990s, however, coffins and skeletal remains were unearthed. The plaza and fountain in front of the Palace of the Legion of Honor is the terminus of the Lincoln Highway. The terminus marker and a plaque are located in the southwest corner of the plaza and fountain. Dominating the Classical plaza is Pax Jerusalemme, a sculpture by Mark di Suvero. European Art The museum contains a collection of European art. Its most distinguished collection is of sculpture by Auguste Rodin, casts of some of his most famous works are on display, including one of The Thinker in the Court of Honor. There are also works by key 20th century figures such as Braque and Picasso. The museum organ, which is housed inside the museum above the galleries, has 4 manuals and pedals,7 divisions,63 ranks. Symphonic music is effective on the museum organ with its battery of pneumatically operated percussion instruments. A thunder pedal is used for the representation of storms. The Palace is seen in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Vertigo when Scottie follows Madeleine Elster to the museum and this painting, the one dubbed Beautiful Carlotta was a prop created specifically for the production and is not housed at the museum. The Palace appears in the Tales of the City based on the first of the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin, the character of Mary Ann Singleton arranges to meet her neighbor Norman Neal Williams at the museum, where he meets his fate
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Contemporary Jewish Museum
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum was founded in 1984 in San Francisco, California. Its current mission is to make the diversity of the Jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first century audience through exhibitions, the Contemporary Jewish Museum was founded in 1984 and was housed in a small gallery space near San Franciscos waterfront for over two decades. In 1989, the museum initiated a process to address the growing community need for its programs. In June 2008, the opened a new 63,000 square-foot facility in downtown San Francisco. The museum has no permanent collection and it curates and hosts a broad array of exhibitions each year. Daniel Libeskind designed the 63,000 square foot museum, which occupies and extends the 1907 Jessie Street Power Substation, the building was completed in 2008. The museum cost $47.5 million to build, the museum’s tilted, dark-blue stainless steel cube, constructed by A. Zahner Company, slices into the old substation’s brick, making visible the relationship between the new and the old. Libeskind’s design preserves the defining features of Polk’s old building, including its brick façade, trusses,36 diamond-shaped windows light the top floor of the metal cube, known as the Yud, which hosts sound and performance based exhibitions. The museum’s other section, a slanting rectangle known as the Chet, holds the narrow lobby, an education center, similar to Libeskind’s Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, the Contemporary Jewish Museum incorporates text into its design. Inspired by the phrase “L’Chaim, ” meaning “To Life, ” Libeskind let the Hebrew letters that spell “chai” —“chet” and “yud, the Hebrew word pardes, meaning “orchard, ” is embedded in the wall of the lobby. The building also houses an event space, an auditorium, Wise Sons Deli. Likewise, David D’Arcy of the Wall Street Journal sees the museum as a departure from Libeskind’s previous work. He finds a “lightness to this that is rare in the architect’s work”, lori Starr, former executive director of the Koffler Centre of the Arts, was appointed the museums director in 2013. In 2014, the museum hired Renny Pritikin as Chief Curator, in 2015, the museum hired Anastasia Rygle as Associate Curator
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De Young (museum)
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The de Young, a fine arts museum located in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park, is one of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco along with the Legion of Honor. The de Young is named for its founder, early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young, holleins tenure began on June 1,2016. The museum opened in 1895 as an outgrowth of the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 and it was housed in an Egyptian revival structure which had been the Fine Arts Building at the fair. The building was damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and was closed for a year. Before long, the steady development called for a new space to better serve its growing audiences. Michael de Young responded by planning the building that would serve as the core of the de Young facility through the 20th century, louis Christian Mullgardt, the coordinator for architecture for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, designed the Spanish-Plateresque-style building. The new structure was completed in 1919 and formally transferred by de Young to the park commissioners. In 1921, de Young added a section, together with a tower that would become the museums signature feature. Michael de Youngs great efforts were honored with the changing of the name to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. Another addition, a west wing, was completed in 1925, in 1929 the original Egyptian-style building was declared unsafe and demolished. By 1949, the elaborate cast concrete ornamentation of the original de Young was determined to be a hazard, as part of the agreement that created the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1972, the de Youngs collection of European art was sent to the Legion of Honor. In compensation, the de Young received the right to display the bulk of the organizations anthropological holdings and these include significant pre-Hispanic works from Teotihuacan and Peru, as well as indigenous tribal art from sub-Saharan Africa. The building was damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. It in turn was demolished and replaced by a new building in 2005, the only remaining original elements of the old de Young are the vases and sphinxes located near the Pool of Enchantment. The palm trees in front of the building are original to the site. The de Young showcases American art from the 17th through the 21st centuries, international art, textiles, and costumes, and art from the Americas. The American art collection consists of over 1,000 paintings,800 sculptures, in 1978, the American art collections were transformed by the decision of John D. His bequest in 1979 together with her bequest in 1993 are among the Fine Arts Museums’ single most important gifts of art
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Museum of the African Diaspora
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The Museum of the African Diaspora is a museum in San Francisco, California, documenting the African diaspora. MoAD showcases the history, art, and cultural richness that resulted from the migration of Africans throughout the world, by realizing their mission, MoAD connects all people through their shared African heritage. It is located at 685 Mission St. next to the St. Regis, the museum, and the building, opened in 2005. MoAD was developed as part of a partnership led by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. In 1999, the City of San Francisco created a mandate to include an African American cultural presence in the last vacant parcel of Yerba Buena Gardens. San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown appointed a committee to determine the mission. Cultural management, architectural and design consultants worked with members of the committee to design a facility and develop fresh. The African American Cultural Institute grew out of the research and development process began in 2002. The new museum was renamed Museum of the African Diaspora to reflect a broadened scope and mission, the architecturally stunning space was designed by the nationally renowned Freelon Group within the St. Regis Museum Tower. MoAD opened its doors in 2005, debuting a modern museum designed to showcase art, linda Harrison was appointed as the Executive Director of MoAD in November 2013. In June 2014, MoAD underwent a 6-month renovation that created more gallery space, by October 2014, MoAD was named an official Smithsonian Affiliate. MoAD introduces visitors to the original African diaspora—the original movement of Homo sapiens —to eventually all inhabited regions, the museum asks visitors when did you first realize you are African. The museum espouses the scientifically accepted idea of panethnicity, wherein all humans have a common African origin. D. The Art of Kenyatta A. C. Tim Roseborough and Cheryl Derricotte, 2015–2016 Nyame Brown, Helina Metaferia, Lili Bernard, and Angie Keller, 2016–2017 Official website New African Diaspora Museum in 2005
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Oakland Museum of California
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The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located in Oakland, California. The museum contains more than 1.8 million objects dedicated to telling the story of California. It was created in the out of the merger of three separate museums dating from the early 20th century, and was opened in 1969. Outdoor architectural features are terraced gardens, patios, outdoor sculpture, a large lawn area. Between 2009 and 2013, the museum underwent a renovation and expansion designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates. The art and history galleries were closed from August 2009 to May 2010, followed by closure of the science gallery. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed the graphics program for the renovation. Core support for the improvements came from Measure G, a $23.6 million bond initiative passed by Oakland voters in 2002. The museum owns more than 70,000 examples of California art and design, painters represented in the art collection include Addie L. The museum holds the archives of Dorothea Lange and images by many other noted photographers. More than 1.8 million items represent Californias history and cultures from the era before Europeans arrived, the collection of the Natural Sciences Department showcases California as a biodiversity hotspot and as the state containing the greatest biological diversity in the nation. The Oakland Public Museum opened in the nearby Camron-Stanford House in 1910 and its first curator, Charles P. Wilcomb, gathered a collection representing two aspects of California cultural history, Native Americans and settlers from the East Coast. The Oakland Art Gallery opened in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in 1916, originally under the auspices of the Oakland Public Museum, whose director at the time, the Snow Museum of Natural History opened in the Cutting mansion, also on the shore of Lake Merritt, in 1922. Although the merged Oakland Museum focuses on California art, history and nature, some pieces from outside the state remain, such as a collection of snuff bottles. Official Oakland Museum of California website Great Buildings website - exterior and interior views
