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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 77

27, rue de Fleurus September 2011 Usually the glass door only allows a glance into the far-away courtyard, well locked away by a modern door code – not like in my old Paris days, when all you had to do … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 76

“Gertrude Stein gone gone is gone,” to paraphrase the American press. Is it really true that she is gone? Stein had become a San Francisco neighbor, someone to say hello to across the street, back and forth between SFMOMA and … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 75

LAST CHANCE STEIN, LAST CHANCE DAVID CLAERBOUT Put on your running shoes and take a bag of patience: lines will be HUGE this weekend – the last days before Seeing Gertrude Stein and The Steins Collect close in SF (See … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 74

Stein’s Opera Four Saints in Three Acts It had to happen. A let-down after the high excitement of the landmark Stein exhibitions. (Although there must have been others duds in the myriads of lectures, panels, and even performances surrounding the … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 73

SLUTTING IN SF: GERTRUDE STEIN ON SLUTWALK? San Francisco had its first SlutWalk last Saturday, and was Gertrude Stein along for the ride? Good question. Controversial question, as most questions are regarding Stein. Now that the avant-garde has collectively declared … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 72

The “Summer of Stein” in San Francisco coincided with the “Summer of the Ring.” Gertrude Stein and Richard Wagner are certainly odd bed-fellows and yet, there they were, one of them at the museums with two epochal shows(see my previous … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 71

Lesbians holding hands a No-no at “Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories” Two hand-holding women were forced out of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco by a zealous guard. In San Francisco! Where did this dinosaur of a guy come … Continue reading

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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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