She lived in a fishing village; she created illustrations of amphipods for the National Museum of Natural Sciences of Canada; she’s rather fond of birds. That’s South Bay artist Floy Zittin, one of my favorite local painters. Now she’s put out her second book with poet Patricia Machmiller and calligrapher Martha Dahlen. A new exhibit at Viewpoints Gallery in Los Altos shows paintings, calligraphy and haiku from the book, “Wild Heart of One Bird Singing.” Zittin’s birds are always meticulously crafted, which is not surprising for an artist who has a master’s degree in marine biology and a long background as a scientific illustrator. The show is up through March 29, with a March 16 workshop planned on ways to meld together painting and poetry. Contact the gallery for details.
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She lived in a fishing village; she created illustrations of amphipods for the National Museum of Natural Sciences of Canada; she’s rather fond of birds. That’s South Bay artist Floy Zittin, one of my favorite local painters. Now she’s put out her second book with poet Patricia Machmiller and calligrapher Martha Dahlen.

A new exhibit at Viewpoints Gallery in Los Altos shows paintings, calligraphy and haiku from the book, “Wild Heart of One Bird Singing.” Zittin’s birds are always meticulously crafted, which is not surprising for an artist who has a master’s degree in marine biology and a long background as a scientific illustrator.

The show is up through March 29, with a March 16 workshop planned on ways to meld together painting and poetry. Contact the gallery for details.

Watch that 12-year-old go! Jazz pianist Shane Turner of Portola Valley is getting all kinds of kudos for his playing, including congrats from Taylor Eigsti, himself a onetime prodigy. Shane was accepted into the Stanford Jazz residency program last summer (an honor usually awarded to the 18-and-up), and tonight he’s performing with the Charged Particles ensemble in P.V. Read a nice profile of Shane by Renee Batti of our sister paper the Almanac here. Photo by Michelle Le.
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Watch that 12-year-old go! Jazz pianist Shane Turner of Portola Valley is getting all kinds of kudos for his playing, including congrats from Taylor Eigsti, himself a onetime prodigy. Shane was accepted into the Stanford Jazz residency program last summer (an honor usually awarded to the 18-and-up), and tonight he’s performing with the Charged Particles ensemble in P.V.

Read a nice profile of Shane by Renee Batti of our sister paper the Almanac here. Photo by Michelle Le.

Another day, another Bay Area art-theft report. This time, a painting by the Filipino artist Fernando Cueto Amorsolo has allegedly been stolen from a house in Atherton, according to our sister paper the Almanac. Police say the painting is worth more than $100,000. They won’t say what its title is. But judging from the description, the Almanac’s Dave Boyce posits that the missing painting could be a 1949 oil called “Rice Planting,” seen above. No word yet on leads, motives, suspects, method of entry, or pretty much anything else. Meanwhile, the Oakland Museum of California is still offering a $12,000 reward for the safe recovery of a 19th-century quartz-and-gold jewelry box that was reported stolen in January.
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Another day, another Bay Area art-theft report. This time, a painting by the Filipino artist Fernando Cueto Amorsolo has allegedly been stolen from a house in Atherton, according to our sister paper the Almanac. Police say the painting is worth more than $100,000.

They won’t say what its title is. But judging from the description, the Almanac’s Dave Boyce posits that the missing painting could be a 1949 oil called “Rice Planting,” seen above.

No word yet on leads, motives, suspects, method of entry, or pretty much anything else.

Meanwhile, the Oakland Museum of California is still offering a $12,000 reward for the safe recovery of a 19th-century quartz-and-gold jewelry box that was reported stolen in January.

Loved the Andy Freeberg show at the Cantor last year. He’s definitely one to follow. blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: This image, titled “Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s Bathing of a Red Horse, State Tretyakov Gallery”, was shot by Andy Freeberg, and is now on view in his show at Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York. Freeberg visited Russia’s great museums, photographing the almost-babushkas charged with guarding the country’s artistic treasures. Even when Freeberg finds women whose look rhymes with their charges, or – as here – where contrast is the point,  what strikes me most is the size of the gap between lived life and the worlds found in art. Now what I’d like to see is a photo of a Chelsea gallerina standing by one of Freeberg’s prints, to see if the gap would be as striking. For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of thedailybeast.com, and on that site’s Art Beast page.
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Loved the Andy Freeberg show at the Cantor last year. He’s definitely one to follow.

blakegopnik:

DAILY PIC: This image, titled “Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s Bathing of a Red Horse, State Tretyakov Gallery”, was shot by Andy Freeberg, and is now on view in his show at Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York. Freeberg visited Russia’s great museums, photographing the almost-babushkas charged with guarding the country’s artistic treasures. Even when Freeberg finds women whose look rhymes with their charges, or – as here – where contrast is the point,  what strikes me most is the size of the gap between lived life and the worlds found in art. Now what I’d like to see is a photo of a Chelsea gallerina standing by one of Freeberg’s prints, to see if the gap would be as striking.

For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of thedailybeast.com, and on that site’s Art Beast page.

In case you were wondering, this is how you climb a pyramid. Especially if you’re in the 19th century and you’re being photographed by Felix Bonfils (1831-1885). This photo, a print titled “Ascent of the Great Pyramid,” is part of a new small exhibition at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center, showing 19th-century images of North Africa and the Holy Land. These photos were especially popular with Westerners who never left the States or Europe, either because they couldn’t or because they were afraid of being pushed up a pyramid. Other vintage views include a print of the Mosque of the Emeer Akhor by Francis Frith (1822-1898), a Briton who was a grocer before his first jaunt to Egypt inspired him. Onward!
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In case you were wondering, this is how you climb a pyramid. Especially if you’re in the 19th century and you’re being photographed by Felix Bonfils (1831-1885).

This photo, a print titled “Ascent of the Great Pyramid,” is part of a new small exhibition at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center, showing 19th-century images of North Africa and the Holy Land. These photos were
especially popular with Westerners who never left the States or Europe, either because they couldn’t or because they were afraid of being pushed up a pyramid.

Other vintage views include a print of the Mosque of the Emeer Akhor by Francis Frith (1822-1898), a Briton who was a grocer before his first jaunt to Egypt inspired him.

Onward!

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