STREET ART SAN FRANCISCO: Mission Muralismo
STREET ART SAN FRANCISCO: Mission Muralismo showcases more than three decades of street art in San Francisco's legendary Mission District. Beginning in the early 1970s, a provocative street-art movement combining elements of Mexican mural painting, surrealism, pop art, urban punk, eco-warrior, cartoon, and graffiti has flourished in this dynamic, multicultural community. Rigo, Las Mujeres Muralistas, Gronk, Barry McGee (Twist), R. Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, the Billboard Liberation Front, Swoon, Sam Flores, Neckface, Shepard Fairey, Juana Alicia, Os Gemeos, Reminesce, and Andrew Schoultz are among the many artists who have made the streets of the Mission their public gallery. Essays and commentaries by insiders involved with the movement document the artistic, social, and political forces that have shaped Mission Muralismo.
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Reviews, Interviews & Critical Response
MISSION MURALS GET MUSEUM TREATMENT
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STREET ART & ARTISTS in the MISSION
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RHAPSODY in NAVY BLUE: An American Family in War and Peace
Mothers carry the ultimate motivation to work for peace, to protect their precious children and prevent them from doing harm to themselves or others. Annice Jacoby has marched and organized for peace since the 1960s. She raised her son and daughter with anti-war values, yet one day her beloved son announced he was applying to the U.S. Naval Academy. This began a fiercely impassioned dialogue about the perilous wars and moral dilemmas of the last decades. Unafraid to confront each other, their conversations are thought provoking and inspirational.
Ignited by and his grandfather’s tales of World War II and Israel’s fight to exist, as well as his obsession with Top Gun, Jacoby’s son dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot. She never imagined she would raise a man who would become a Navy SEAL exposed to the harshest situations of 21st-century warfare. In the course of time spent in hotspots, including Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, the Philippines, Colombia, Mali, Somalia, Jacoby’s son, Kaj Larsen, begins to integrate his mother’s influences and his military service. Recruited by Al Gore for CurrentTV, he eventually establishes a career as a journalist, covering such topics as torture, drug wars, forgotten wars, forgotten soldiers. As our country has become consumed by waves of discontent, and war drums are continuously beaten, Annice Jacoby has written a book that addresses how we fight and what we fight for. Rhapsody in Navy Blue is charged with the beauty and chaos that follows family and country into war. Her son, Kaj Larsen, is now an influential journalist www.kajlarsen.com For inquiries contact Lyn DelliQuadri Lahr & Partners New York, New York lyn.delliquadri@gmail.com
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