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"At Third and Mission: A Life Among Artists," coming October 15, is a new memoir by longtime Bay Area curator, contemporary art critic, and poet Renny Pritikin. Renny reveals the richness of San Francisco’s dynamic art scene - sharing over 50 personal stories about his encounters from 1979 to 2018 with creative minds.

Over 40 years, curator, contemporary art critic, and poet Renny worked with, befriended, and sometimes almost got arrested with some of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most innovative and celebrated artists and writers. As co-director of New Langton Arts, a major American artist-run space in San Francisco, and then Chief Curator at several of the area’s cutting edge museums, Pritikin was recognized for pushing the boundaries of contemporary art in museum practice with shows such as the first United States exhibition of "The Art of Star Wars."