![]() Pocket Opera, San Francisco’s charming and cheery little chamber opera company, is going extra light and frothy for their season opener this Sunday afternoon at the Berkeley Hillside Club. Robert Taylor, Correspondent Making ‘Merry’ with Pocket Opera When the exhibit opened in New York, one critic said the people Neel depicted “dare you to like them.”ĭetails: “Alice Neel: People Come First”’ through July 10 at the de Young Museum, San Francisco hours are 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. And like the artist, many of her subjects look defiant. Known for her compulsive honesty, Neel didn’t do portraits to flatter her subjects. Plus friends, family and lovers - sometimes as full-length nudes. ![]() A lifelong social activist, she painted her neighbors in Spanish Harlem, a door-to-door salesman who was a Holocaust survivor, and cross-dressing performers in Andy Warhol’s circle. The city and its people were her subjects. Neel (1900-1984) was born in Pennsylvania, attended art school in Philadelphia and later settled in New York. It spans six decades of Neel’s life and vividly displays what the museum director calls her “uncompromising humanism.” That’s the theme, and title, of a touring retrospective of paintings, drawings and watercolors organized by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, now at the de Young Museum. She wasn’t slowing down, or wavering, from her radical realist portraits. “I paint to try to reveal the struggle, tragedy and joy of life,” Alice Neel told an interviewer when she was 50 years into her career as an artist. (Estate of Alice Neel/Cleveland Museum of Art/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco). The new show, also penned by Patricia Milton, finds the threesome investigating why a famous woman explorer has been committed to a psychiatric hospital by her husband.ĭetails: Through April 17 Berkeley City Club proof of vaccination required and masks must be worn in the theater $22-$40 .Īlice Neel’s 1970 portrait “Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd” depicting New York performer, writer and artist and Andy Warhol associate Curtis (right) and his companion Redd, is on display at the de Young Museum. ![]() This production by Berkeley’s Central Works stage company is a sequel of sorts to its 2019 hit “The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective,” a sharp feminist comedy about a trio of London female sleuths. “Escape from the Asylum”: Don’t let the title scare you. The more than 30 live-stream performances tackle a wide range of topics, according to organizers, including “motherhood, communist spies, donuts, pandemic surgical mask supply shortage, meditation, YouTube sensations, the Church of Scientology, and triathlons, plus personal stories of India, Copenhagen, Iraq, South Korea, and much more.”ĭetails: March 25-27 all shows free but reservations are required and donations are required. I was surprised as anyone when she started painting and I saw the results were so beautiful and detailed.Marsh goes global: The Marsh performance space, which kept impressively active with streaming content during the dark days when the pandemic shut down live shows, is offering its second all-digital MarshStream International Solo Fest, a series of virtual performances from across the globe. ![]() "Growing up I never realized my big sister had this kind of talent. "I'm amazed," said Alex Fucile, Rose's brother who has several of his sister's paintings hanging in his home. "I'm not a great artist but a good copier. "When I began painting, I used those photos for inspiration." Rose humbly says. "While visiting all of those places I took a lot of photos of what I saw and liked," Rose said. "Seeing that makes me happy."Īs a teacher with summers off, Rose had a passion for travel, vising Europe, Russia, China, India and Tibet as well as many locations in the U.S. "I like to see a person's face come to life after I paint it," Rose says. Her subjects include still life, wildlife, landscape, floral and, her favorite subject, portraits. ![]() They range in size and form including plates, steins and framed tiles. Rose estimates she has painted more than 100 pieces. ![]()
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