7 posts with the tag "art"

A Method for Public Reimagining: Move Slowly and Knit Things Together
(Chalkboard of alternative categories used during the Added Value book sale. Image courtesy of Beth Laberge.)

“Rather than moving fast and breaking things, as Mark Zuckerberg described his approach to building Facebook, we came to recognize the value of moving slowly and knitting things together. ” This concluding essay from The Stacks is from our very own Deena Chalabi, former curator of Public Knowledge. Explore the beginnings of Public Knowledge, the complexities of the artist projects, and the overarching goals of our two year project.

Talking Climate Change through Art and China

On September 11, 2018, the public program “Global China: Cross-Cultural Conversation on The Work of Art in the Age of…

Living in the Archives

In the spring of 2018 I became the first artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Planning Department. I was given a…

Knowledge from the Margins

Julia Bryan-Wilson is a professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of California, Berkeley; the director of its…

Reimagining the City

What can our urban landscape reveal about San Francisco? In Reimagining the City, speakers looked at different approaches to Bay…

Reassembling the Public

Shannon Jackson is the Associate Vice Chancellor for the arts and design at University of California, Berkeley, and a Public…

Libraries and Public Knowledge

The Public Knowledge collaboration between SFMOMA and the San Francisco Public Library is made possible in large part due to…