RADIO DOCUMENTARY / SLIDESHOW: Artist Anthony Holdsworth, who painted a series of urban landscapes that depicted a future San Francisco flooded by rising seas, was invited to show his work last year inside the new “green” San Francisco Federal Building at Seventh and Mission streets. But before the opening reception, the show was ordered taken down. He said the image in one of his paintings, of oil burning on a flooded sidewalk in front of the building was too similar to the news footage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for federal authorities to bear. Undeterred, Holdsworth is mounting a new art show at the cafe at SFMOMA.
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Justin Beck is a journalism lecturer at San Francisco State University, a media consultant and photographer. He previously worked for the San Francisco Chronicle as a multimedia producer, the National Radio Project as a reporter, host and producer, and as a public affairs director and DJ for KDVS-FM in Davis, Calif. His work in radio has been heard on 200 public and community stations around the U.S. His photography has been featured in San Francisco Magazine and on numerous Bay Area blogs, including SFist and Curbed SF.