30 posts tagged “presidio”
Just got my advanced copies of my photography book on the Presidio from the printers. So excited. Quality is beautiful. I've sent the OK to ship the full inventory and can't wait to get them. Just in time for the holidays so please bear me in mind when looking for that must have coffee table photography book. For now I've put an electronic version on the issuu website (mini-viewer below). Please check it out and let me know what you think.
War and Dissent: U.S. in the Philippines 1898-1915
October 22, 2008 to February 22, 2009
Opening
Wednesday, October 22, at 7 pm
Wednesday to Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm
Presidio Officers’ Club, 50 Moraga Avenue
"Presidio: A New Light--from Army Base to Community Space"
Black and White Photographs by Charity Vargas
Opening reception: June 19, 2008 5:00 to 7:00pm
Exhibition date: June 19 through August 15, 2008
The Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Presidio Building 1014
at Lincoln Blvd. & Torney Ave.
The Presidio of San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA 94129
The Holidays Lights Tree Lighting Ceremony in the Presidio is this Friday, December 7, 2007 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.
This week there is a public meeting to comment on the proposed 100,000 square foot Modern Art Museum for the main post area of the Presidio. Maybe it's the talk of the '08 elections or a little video I watched this morning about the writers strike. I am just a little bit fired up - is everything about the cash?
The Presidio is part of a National Park (the GGNRA), an Urban National Park but a National Park none the less. Citizens fought hard to keep it out of developer's hands for the people. We agreed that it needs to pay it's own way, and it is, thanks to residential leasing which has put it the black for the last couple of years. And we have conceded that it needs a couple of marque tenants to help pay for the restoration of it's historic buildings and - we have them in the Letterman Digital Arts Center , Public Health Service Hospital Complex and Disney Family Foundation Library and Museum. LDAC and PHSH replaced largely dense non-historical areas on the edges of the park easily accessible by public transportation. But the main post?
I am not sure 100,000 visitors a year to the main post is the best idea - there are only so many entrances. And Isn't the reason we love this place so much precisely because it is undeveloped, because it is an oasis of calm in our city? Wouldn't a better fit be to create a Presidio History Museum? It is not that I don't want a world class art museum in SF, I do, I would love one, I just don't think it is the best fit for our National Park.
