Thursday night! Benefit for the CA Emergency Supply Fund

SFmoma

so many teases. A whole room devoted to Gerhard Richter. The Fishers own half of his work. I expected mind blowing. Not so much. I still love him. Of three Richard Serra pieces,
one great one and two unremarkables.
Enough complaining. Even though I had already seen all of the Diane Arbus photos in the exhibit, they are still amazing. Even though I only saw a few Robert Bechtle's, I loved being reminded of how much I like him and how well he portrays San Francisco.
Some of the video installations floored me as well:
Pipilotti Rist, I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much
Bruce Conner, Three Screen Ray

prison AIDS walk

This is amazing:

Housing Works has long provided housing and services to help formerly incarcerated people get their lives on track. Now, through a federal government grant, Housing Works has implemented an innovative new program that sets people up with care before they get out of prison. The Housing Works program targets HIV-positive and high risk minority ex-offenders moving to New York City. The program has just begun in September, and seven people have already been connected with care and treatment at Housing Works.
“I always tell people that planning for re-entry starts the day you’re locked up,” said Ray Rios, Housing Works central intake/outreach program director.
And the good will goes both ways.
The prisoners at Otisville Correctional Facility held an AIDSWalk on World AIDS Day (December 1) where one-quarter of the prison participated in the walk. They raised $240 for Housing Works. The inmates joked that they wish they could have given $240,000; they all make less than 25 cents a day.
Housing Works

free NYC - Irving Penn at MOMA

I love Irving Penn (and really wish he was not always described as a fashion photographer - he was infinitely more.) Ten or so of his photographs are on display in the MOMA lobby. They are free to see and well worth it.

If you do have the time and money for a full visit, the best Gabriel Orozco is the easiest to miss; it is in the stairwell with exhibit computers.

save california needle exchange!

heroin and hysterics

nyc.gov has already removed its new injection safety flyer, Take Charge Take Care, from its website. (I have made it available here.)
This flyer elicited plenty of nonsense repsponses. My only real criticism is of its reliance on the same magical thinking incorporated into most injection safety information.

yesterday

@alli_k: 3 hallways of close-up flower photographs on the way to a pelvic exam. Subtle.

@nharlotekk: clearly, you need a briefcase full of sausage