Shadowshop: Recipe for Boiling Water

Shadowshop: Recipe for Boiling Water – by Renny Pritikin on SFMOMA Open Space.

On rare occasions an event—a talk, a blog post, an exhibition—raises an issue that had been slowly making the local water hotter, but gone unremarked. Suddenly with this event the pot is boiling and everyone has something to say. It makes for a lot of fun; such is the case with Stephanie Syjuco’s Shadowshop, a “temporary, alternative store and distribution point” currently installed in SFMOMA’s fifth-floor galleries. (I once published in this blog a list of the ingredients that build a lively art scene; one element was iconoclastic community leadership. Hats off to Ms. Syjuco for growing into that role for San Francisco.)

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