Andy Pilara, who collects photographs and founded Pier 24, stood waiting in the crowd outside for opening ceremonies for SFMOMA.
There was a definite feeling of triumph in the air — all that money raised, all that space created, all that gleaming reflection of San Francisco in its radiant boom — but there was more.
When all the speeches were done, after Snohetta architect Craig Dykers had stood with an arm-pumping gesture of triumph, after board chairman Charles Schwab, museum director Neal Benezra and the Fishers had taken the stage and after — thank you, Stanlee Gatti — strips of red confetti covered the sidewalk, the crowd had ebbed, the red chairs were emptying ... and the Fishers enjoyed a moment together.
Some day, Hunter Newsom will smile at a picture of himself in his dad’s arms, and some day the youngest ones will remember — as did Pilara — that they were there on opening day.
The breeze wafting strips of red paper that floated from their sleeves and shoulders, Bob, wife Randi, Doris and John Fisher’s son, David, laughed together as they took a selfie.
Making sure that we in the Bay Area are getting proper respect in Washington, I went through the list of invitees to Friday’s Nordic state dinner at the White House, looking for hometown folks.
The most puzzling person on the list was a man who was identified as a “letter writer”; had he submitted a winning essay on why he wanted to go to the White House?
Artist Jason Mecier’s exhibition “Celebrity Trash” (at 111 Minna Street Gallery through May 28) features portraits of pop culture figures made of junk and trash they supply to him.
Pamela Anderson (some of whose trash the artist purchased at her garage sale), Amy Schumer, Lindsay Lohan, Daniel Tosh and more.
From Alameda, Isadora (Ask Isadora) Alman sends word that the new waxing salon in the Alameda Landing shopping area is called LunchBOX.
