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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 70
So What ARE They Wearing for Gertrude Stein? San Francisco Chronicle’s Leah Garchik reported in the Datebook the other day a comment overheard at a birthday party: “She doesn’t know Gertrude Stein! What kind of a lesbian is she?” I … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 69
Emergeny Fashion: What To Wear??? This is a question I hear a lot from both women and men as the Summer of Stein descends upon San Francisco. Dressing up for Gertrude Stein, for the grand openings at SFMOMA and the … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 68
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Several people had tears in their eyes, myself included, walking in a trance through the vast rooms of SFMOMA, in the stream of … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 67
I took my third long walk through the exhibition, another treasure hunt. Again I was delighted to see how well Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories is really SEEING her, seeing and responding and echoing her contemporary relevance. Pointing out: Stein … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 66
Yes they did it. They pulled it off. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, arm in arm with the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery in DC (where the show will go from San Francisco) made it happen: the long-awaited exhibition Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five … Continue reading
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Recently republished (see Why Do Something # 23), my photobiography is being offered by KQED as part of the May 2011 pledge drive. A timely offer, together with tickets to the museum openings about Stein… When the book first appeared … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 65
San Francisco In the Spring With Gertrude Stein Soon the museum gates will open and entire families will stroll into “Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories” and “The Steins Collect”. What will the kids make of the fat lady who doesn’t … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 64
QUEER GERT Picasso was planning to go to Rome with Jean Cocteau to work on the surrealist ballet Parade with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. He ran into Cocteau on the Blvd Montparnasse. “As we are going on a honeymoon together, let’s … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 63
“Not everything can be about everything”– Stein, the worms and the butterflies. In his last and final book, The Memory Chalet, brilliant historian Toni Judt reminisces about teaching students at the time when feminism, gender and sexual harrassment were discovered. … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 62
“Don’t Think You Can’t Be Senile At 22″ This week’s New Yorker reports on “Glenn Ligon: AMERICA” at the Whitney, the retrospective of an important African-American artist who made use of the “negro sunshine” Stein coined in her early novella “Melanctha” … Continue reading
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