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Sam Bercovich is a great man whom I have had the good fortune to get to know through my work at MAGNES . Sam's in his nineties. He's also a member of my synagogue Temple Beth Abraham . In fact, the shul ain't named for the Jewish Patriarch, it's named after Sam's grandfather Abe. We got together again, because Fred Isaac is working on a book for Arcadia Publishing about the Jews of the East Bay. Fred went to talk to Sam and take some pictures. Below are a pix from my phone. I'll add more captions over time. Sam helped to found the original Oakland Raiders, so you'll see him below with Jim Plunkett and Sam's Super Bowl ring -- three diamonds for three wins. Sam's family was in the furniture business and Sam Bercovich, perhaps most famously and of which he is most proud, also created the Oakland youth leagues that helped Frank Robinson and Curt Flood and others get their start. One of the drawn portraits of Sam below is by Curt Flood and done w...

From a Vault in Paris, Sounds of Opera 1907 By ALAN RIDING Published: February 16, 2009 PARIS — On Dec. 24, 1907, a group of bewhiskered men gathered in the bowels of the Paris Opera to begin a project that by definition they could never see to fruition. First, 24 carefully wrapped wax records were placed inside two lead and iron containers. These were then sealed and locked in a small storage room with instructions that they should remain undisturbed for 100 years. The man behind this musical time capsule was Alfred Clark, a New Yorker who headed the London-based Gramophone Company and had provided the records. And in truth, once the ceremony was over, he had achieved his primary objective of drawing attention to his company and to the new flat-disc records it was promoting to compete with the better-known cylinders. “I know of no other case where a commercial firm has obtained so much free publicity as we have,” he wrote to a colleague two days later.

Power has gone to Rain Wilson's head. he tweets: I have 16k followers. I type this... and 16k read it. Persimmon. Glory-hole. Cake. There. You all read those words. Sha-bam! about 5 hours ago from web (Source: Ev )

Funny 92YTribeca Commercial w/PAUL RUDD - watch more funny videos I lived in the same dorm as David Wain (...Adam Sandler, too.) huhn.

Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams 19th century, Iran. Ink and tempera on paper Gift of Chimon Mayeri and Family Photograph by Sibila Savage, 2007. Magnes collection goin' "live" soon....oh, treasures!

Ok this is so weird...it's the funky Wachovia glyph blurring its way into focus on a billboard in the Embarcaadero station in San Francisco, with all its meaningless, squiggly lines that'd come to represent a North Carolina-based financial empire and had taken in the once-strong, Oakland-based World Savings in one swallow RIGHT before the mortgage crisis hit HARD, leveling the Sandlers from being two of the most prudent, level-headed, thoughtful, company-builing, new-home-making-possible people in the United States into targets of satire on SNL, and is now being taken in gracefully by Wells Fargo in what may be one of the most well-timed acquisitions in banking history, amybe the only business good to come out of all this business bad. But what's the sign mean? And why do some stylized write, calligraphed pattern laid over blue and green mean any of these things?

sweet, interesting interview with Yiyun Li, assistant professor of English at UC Davis and author of The Vagrants on Krasny's FORUM (to hear it click here) on KQED . "Parochial is the new universal."

These are beautiful people. This Joanne McNeil and team. She's got this one post up now called "The Overexamined Life: Finding Bits of Ourselves in Digital Ghost Towns," and its so pretty I just wanna jump through into it and meet her there. The writing veers kinda elegantly from pedantic to pedestrian, but its so humble and sweet. The pix, sourced out from Dreamlike art by Anette Harboe Flensburg is really what makes the piece, but c'mon... There's some kinda bathos here that strikes a chord. Thank you, Tomorrow Museum . (* - as in "good")

This is a fantastic summary of a lot of what's going on NOW. Hoping to just steal her slide show for my presentation at the California Association of Museums. This is so hot, it's JAZZ. N Proctor Mobile Interp9 Dec08 View more presentations from nancyproctor . (tags: nancyproctor web2.0 )

This just up at fora.tv . Fora has gotten popular enough now that as soon as something goes up there are comments. Below are the two comments the MAGNES program drew really quickly: SBell: Does this not disgust anyone? I understand how this could be construed as art by some, but it just seems to take a lack of consideration for those that endured this atrocity to a whole new level. Lego's? Seriously? I guess I just don't understand the reasons for going this route to create this form of "art". adriennejohnson: I agree -- it's atrocious. I am glad we are drawing feedback...only a little sorry that Apel's somewhat dated, sensationalistic presentation drew more energies than the artists' own sweet, personal and revealing explorations. I mused on this very thing a few posts back.

There's some kind of lesson here...

What a great day! It started early, with lil E time and making challah french toast, then i took lil E out to his grandparents, so Karen and I could spend the day in SF, invited to cultural stuff -- a Tehiyah Day School Leadership event at the new Cal Academy of Sciences and a MAGNES lecture at the CCA campus in SF . At the Academy we were toured around by Tehiyah Day School parent Kang Kiang . it was a great tour. And it was my first visit to the Academy, though Lil E's been several times already with his grandparents and mom. We got a little lost making our way to CCA. I almost always get lost looking for that campus, and never remember to take the directions. We had to ask for help at the Slow Club . And they were VERY helpful -- GREAT place! The MAGNES/CCA program included: Alla Efimova , PhD, MAGNES Acting Director and Chief Curator Dora Apel , PhD, Wayne State University, Author of “Memory Effects: Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing” Naomie Kremer , Artist,...

Quiet night in Marin. There's a minyan in Mill Valley. Another soul sleeps quiet now. The City plays off on the horizon like Whistler's fireworks.

Here's a shout out to Ari Rinzler and the whole gang at Zeum. This is one of the VERY best things about the Bay Area!! YehBOI!

I must confess, I did not know this portrait existed. Click the pic to hear the Slavic mellifluous ramblings of an Art Talk on KCRW. Obama as a champion of the arts. John Fitzgerald Kennedy/ Elaine de Kooning,1963/ Oil on canvas/ National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/ © Elaine de Kooning Trust for more info go to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery blog on it.

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Magnes Web Life Giving View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: museums social ) This was a presentation I gave up in Anchorage last fall -- having fun with SlideShare. I joined SlideShare because of an upcoming WebCast, then got advertised for more info. on LinkedIn, posted an old presentation, got sent to SlideShare home to set up an account then was asked if I wanted to Blogger the Event, too. Neat.