KQED Does Art:
KQED, San Francisco’s gianormous public radio and TV station has launched a video podcast called Gallery Crawl wherein they visit different galleries around the Bay Area and see what’s doing. Seems to be a shorter, portable version of their Spark! which profiles 3 area artists but extends to theatre music and literature as well.
I don’t jump too high for KQED or their offerings but here they might be onto something. San Francisco’s gallery scene is notoriously user unfriendly, with few shows appearing on Upcoming.org, important organizations lacking even basic mailing lists and local impressionarios reporting way after the fact. It’s a scene clinging to audience principles of 20-30 years ago, a “you’ll know it if you need to but we won’t help any” attitude that would seem like benign neglect if it weren’t so rude.
Although I haven’t watched any episodes yet, Gallery Crawl seems just what an amateur art lover like me needs. It’s bite-sized and comes right to ya. Do you need a video iPod though?