Alienlike creature filmed swimming through Oakland's Lake Merritt.'Major Heat Risk' expected to impact Northern California.Camp 4, the historic Yosemite campground where 'dirtbags' stay illegally for months.Information: (510) 251-2466.ĭe Hamel recently published "The Book: A History of the Bible" ( Phaidon), a richly illustrated account of the Bible as a cultural artifact. Offer a rare opportunity to hear British book scholar Christopher de Hamel, a highly entertaining lecturer.ĭe Hamel will present "The Elephant and the Archbishop: Illuminated Manuscripts at the Parker Library" at 7 p.m., with a reception to follow, at the African American Museum and Library, 659 14th St., Oakland. "Stone River" continues another of Goldsworthy's preoccupations: expressing the fact that even things we think of as immobile travel through time and space.ĬHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL LECTURE TONIGHT: This evening the African American Museum and Library in Oakland and Octavo, which documents rare books on CD-ROM, In staking out the path of "Stone River," he wanted a meander that would seem to just stop short of throwing itself out of balance, now this way, now that, Goldsworthy explained. He is interested less in the symbolic associations of serpents, Goldsworthy told The Chronicle, than in the fact that, like a river, a snake is a form that "draws itself." His Stanford work was foreshadowed by an 8-ton "snake" of sand. Goldsworthy frequently makes serpentine sculpture. As "Stone River" drives at either end into ground that encloses it, its train of triangular capstones narrows to a stutter of segments that suggests the fossil spine of a small dinosaur. Triangular in section, the sculpture is about 4 feet wide at its base. ![]() Involving an estimated 128 tons of material, "Stone River" took almost a month to build. Several of them had worked with him on wall pieces elsewhere, such as the massive one at Storm King Art Center in upstate New York and his continuing "Sheepfolds" project in the north of England. To build the massive dry-stone wall, Goldsworthy enlisted the help of eight "wallers" from Britain. "Stone River" is a gift to Stanford from the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation, in honor of former university President Gerhard Casper.
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