OnMilwaukee has an in-depth review of the Milwaukee Art Museum's Sam Francis: Master Printmaker exhibit, open until March 20, 2016: "Here lies the pulsing heart of the new addition to the now-sprawling interiors of the Milwaukee Art Museum. The exhibit "Sam Francis: Master Printmaker," running through...
"Basel Mural II" by Sam Francis will be on view at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam through September 15, 2013, sharing a gallery with Ellworth Kelly's 1963 freestanding aluminum sculpture "Blue Red Rocker." The Stedelijk Museum re-opened in September of 2012 -- under the direction...
Lorenzo Pagliei, a composer, electronic musician, pianist and conductor, is the creator of "Free Floating Clouds" a 14 minute 18 second long composition created as an homage to Sam Francis. Recorded in 2004 the composition requires 13 musicians, and was conducted by Andrea Panieri, and...
Sam Francis, "Symphony in Blue," 1958 Gouache and watercolor on paper 27 x 39.4 inches Sold for $1,145,000 US at Sotheby's, New York, May 15, 2013 A new auction record for a Sam Francis work on paper. ...
Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections August 11, 2013–January 5, 2014 Pasadena, CA – The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA), is proud to present Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections, the first major museum exhibition of Francis’s work...
A recent article by Judd Tully, "The Auction House 2.0: How New Strategies, and Growth, May Shift and Old Duopoly," published in the March 2013 issue of Art+Auction magazine, mentions that the first "selling exhibition" of Sotheby's new S2 exhibition space featured works by Sam...
During a recent episode of Giuliana and Bill on the Style Network, Bill Rancic stopped by Martin Katz, Ltd. in Beverly Hills to replace Giuliana's wedding band. Hanging in the foyer is a beautiful Sam Francis acrylic on paper from the early 70's which...
Sam Francis and others of his generation who left the U.S. to paint and study in Paris are featured in "The Lure of Paris" at the Loretta Howard Gallery in New York, September 6 through November 3, 2012. Other featured artists in the exhibition include: Biala, Norman...
In the late1960s, Mark Whitney, then a student at UC Santa Cruz, took a course in Cultural Anthropology with the noted anthropologist Gregory Bateson. In Bateson’s seminars Whitney was exposed to cybernetics systems theory, a boundary crossing approach to exploring regulatory systems. Cybernetic theories can be applied to many kinds...
...