December 6, 2011December 19, 2011 by Molly Samuel

Berkeley’s Shotgun Players celebrates 20 years on stage

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The bee bursts onto the scene (from L to R: Will Hand, Juliana Lustenader, Josh Pollock (Banjo), Anthony Nemirovsky). Photo by Pak Han.

The Berkeley theater company Shotgun Players started performing 20 years ago in the basement of a Berkeley pizzeria. Now it’s got its own building, but the company has stuck with its founding principles: taking on little-known or brand new plays, and working hard to create theater for the community.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the company is presenting an entire season of world premieres: five brand news plays.

This aired on Crosscurrents on 12/6/11.

Are you listening? A new sound installation gets inside your head

A new art installation at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is all about questions. I went there with my brother Seth to get some answers.

This aired on KALW’s Crosscurrents on April 13, 2011.

January 19, 2010January 19, 2010 by Molly Samuel

75 Reasons to Visit SFMOMA

In honor of its 75th Anniversary this year, SFMOMA has invited 75 people from the Bay Area art world to talk about pieces from the museum’s collection that are meaningful to them, and to share their thoughts with the rest of us.

The rest is at KQED Arts.

December 14, 2009December 23, 2009 by Molly Samuel

Rediscovering Carleton Watkins

Carleton Watkins lost most of his life’s work, including early photos of Yosemite Valley, in the 1906 earthquake and fire. Last year a flat file full of Watkins photos turned up in a New England library and the photos are currently on display at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco.

Read the rest at KQED Arts.

December 4, 2009 by Molly Samuel

Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument

The compositions Ellen Fullman writes for the instrument she invented, the Long String Instrument, are eerily lovely and airily enveloping, like a blanket made of stars.

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November 16, 2009 by Molly Samuel

Tara Foley: Either in a Million Years or Until the Bitter End

There is something familiar about Tara Foley’s work, the way a Grimm’s fairy tale can feel familiar and yet unexplored.

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November 9, 2009November 9, 2009 by Molly Samuel

Picturing Evolution

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Just in time for the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Bay Area photographer Susan Middleton and author Mary Ellen Hannibal have released a new book called Evidence of Evolution and will discuss it this week at the California Academy of Sciences.

Read the rest at KQED Arts.