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How Claude Monet’s reluctant sojourn reignited his career Original
“Monet and Venice” is the third San Francisco exhibit of Claude Monet’s paintings in less than 10 years, following “Monet: the Early Years” and “Monet: the Late Years” at the Legion of Honor and de Young museums. Granted, the enduring popularity of Impressionism stems from a single one of Monet’s paintings displayed in Paris in 1872, but what more is there to say? What to see?
How 2 legendary impressionist painters have a chat at SF museum Original
Last fall, San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum presented a splendid retrospective of Cassatt’s work, touching on Degas’ influence on the American artist making her name in Paris. This fall, the Legion follows up, and doubles up, with “Manet & Morisot,” detailing the extensive artistic exchange between the two of them from the 1860s to the 1880s at a turning point in European painting.
Massive new SF exhibit explores Ruth Asawa’s ‘ordinary’ brilliance Original
But on the first wall of the first gallery, Asawa’s own words bring it all down to earth: “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.” That’s the best introduction, and step-by-step guide, to an almost overwhelming array of artwork by Asawa, who spent much of her adult life in San Francisco. This untiled work by Ruth Asawa is among her many hanging wire sculptures on display at SFMOMA.
Mary Cassatt's iconic impressionism on view at Legion of Honor in SF Original
Imagine yourself in Paris the spring of 1879, on the Avenue de l’Opera, walking into the fourth group exhibit by the Impressionist artists. She would become renowned as one of the great American artists, even though– or maybe because — she spent most of the rest of her life outside the United States. “After all give me France,” she would write.
'Phoenix Kingdoms' display in SF has 'rewritten the history of China' Original
The Asian Art Museum has collaborated with Chinese museums over many years to bring countless exhibits to San Francisco, displaying both exquisite art objects and monumental tomb warriors. Could there be more? Yes, now there’s a trove notable for massive bronze cauldrons and tiny coins, depictions of writhing serpents and exquisite silk-gauze robes — excavated in the Yangzi River area and then displayed in Chinese museums.
New SF exhibit reveals origins of those unforgettable Botticelli paintings
Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s effusive praise for an exhibit, on view through Feb. 11, which gathers a scant two dozen images from the Renaissance master, just about all that have survived for 500 years.
You've seen them on TV and movies -- now meet the real 'Tudors'
From Bette Davis to Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I, from Charles Laughton to Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII, from “Fire Over England” to “Wolf Hall,” the Tudor era has kept movies, operas, TV series and books stuffed with drama and intrigue. And beheadings. Now the roots of that drama — in paintings, jewelry, tapestries, sculpture and personal mementos — are on display in “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England,” at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum through Sept. 24.
New Ansel Adams exhibit shines new light on legendary images Original
“Ansel Adams in Our Time,” the title of the new exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, suggests that his outdoor photographs, with ionic images of Yosemite, speak to us in some new way. In fact, he began photographing Yosemite in 1927, when he was 14, and his crystal-clear prints look as modern today as they did decades ago. Adams (1902-1984) was a champion of national parks and wilderness preservation, and his photographs could be persuasive.
Stunning ‘Beyond Bollywood’ at Asian American Museum goes deeper than you think
“It’s hard to think of other religious traditions worldwide where the gods dance so much,” observes Forrest McGill, co-curator of a new exhibit at the Asian Art Museum that explores the roots of South and Southeast Asian performance. “Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art,” an expansive show filling the museum’s 8,500-square-foot pavilion, includes a wide-ranging but well-focused mix of 120 objects from five countries, borrowed from 29 museums and private collections.
Kehinde Wiley’s new exhibit of 'Silence' in SF has a LOT to say
Kehinde Wiley’s paintings and sculptures at San Francisco’s de Young Museum are “a direct response to the murder of George Floyd,” he explains. The works were also created against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID pandemic, which isolated Wiley at his studio in Dakar, Senegal.
Famed Bay Area Chicana artist Amalia Mesa-Bains gets first retrospective show in Berkeley Original
Julie Rodrigues Widholm was on the job just two days as executive director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive when she received an e-mail that would lead in spectacular fashion to one of her goals: bringing greater visibility to the works of United States-based artists of Latin American heritage. The result of her e-mail contact with a pair of eager curators is “Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory,” the first retrospective for the 79-year-old Bay Area artist.
SFMOMA: Bay Area icon Joan Brown gets the big, quirky exhibit she deserves Original
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s online promotion for its Joan Brown retrospective suggests we need an introduction to the Bay Area painter who flourished in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. So she’s touted as an animal lover, swimming enthusiast and a deeply imaginative artist with an independent spirit who had a “charmingly personal and engaging career.” And she’s described as one of San Francisco’s most important local heroes.
Fall arts 2022: Museums prepare diverse array of eye-popping shows
Bay Area museums are moving full speed ahead with exhibits this fall, at least compared to the openings/reopenings and tentative schedules during the past COVID-19 pandemic years. Art can be healing, museum leaders like to say, but currently it is also challenging, revealing, provocative. New exhibits dig into forgotten history (“Lost Kingdoms of Ancient China”), highlight works by African American artists and explore the rarely displayed category of Asian American art.
Ramses the Great gets rock star treatment at SF's de Young Museum Original
It’s as if the Discovery Channel set up shop in Golden Gate Park to celebrate the pharaoh Ramses II and ancient Egyptian culture. It’s a show complete with large-scale videos, drone photography, deep-voiced narration and soundtrack music throughout galleries at the de Young Museum.
Big, revealing Diego Rivera exhibit opens at SFMOMA Original
San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art has been celebrating Diego Rivera, who was considered the greatest Mexican painter of the 20th century, since the day it opened in 1935. Paintings by Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo helped establish the museum’s international collection, then housed on the fourth floor of the Veterans Building in the Civic Center. Now the museum’s collection includes 70 Rivera artworks.
From Muppets to David Bowie: Inside Jim Henson’s visionary world Original
“The Jim Henson Experience: Imagination Unlimited” fills the Contemporary Jewish Museum in downtown San Francisco with more than 150 artifacts, from a 1970s Kermit the Frog puppet greeting visitors to sketches of Miss Piggy to David Bowie’s sleek black costume from “Labyrinth.” This treasure trove also includes more than 25 puppets, design ideas, scribbled notes, videos and movie clips.
‘Loaded Camera’: Gordon Parks’ game-changing photos shown at Stanford
In the Midwest in the 1930s, Gordon Parks was a young railroad porter who would gather magazines that passengers left behind and study the photographs carefully. He’d focus on images of migrant workers, taken by Farm Security Administration photographers documenting the social and economic plight of Americans during the Depression. “I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs,” Parks later recalled.
How do I know which threaded fastener is right for my application?
How do I know which threaded fastener is right for my application? 21 January 2022 By Robert Taylor, product line manager, ARaymond U-nuts are self-retaining fasteners that provide an easy and fast attachment of mating panels. They will not turn as the screw is driven into place or freeze on screw threads. There’s no mathematical equation that will give you the answer to if and when a threaded fastener should be used in an application, but there are guidelines to follow for an educated decision.
Famed 1878 painting returns to SF and inspires new look at Native American art Original
This one painting would have been enough to command attention, installed among the de Young Museum’s American art collection. It was back in San Francisco for the first time since it was completed in 1878 by French-born artist Jules Tavernier in his studio, originally near Portsmouth Square. “Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California” is both personal and dramatic, conveying a sacred cultural ceremony of the Elem Pomo tribe.
Ancient Pompeii meets Wangechi Mutu — only at the SF Legion of Honor
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum has long observed a balance between life and death. When it opened in 1924 it was dedicated to the memory of the 3,600 Californians who lost their lives on the battlefields of France during the “Great War,” World War I. The donors who financed construction declared, however, that they wanted to “honor the dead while serving the living.” Two new exhibits also strike a balance.
Rosie Lee Tompkins’ revolutionary quilts are back to ‘take your breath away’
In 1997, the Berkeley Art Museum exhibited some 20 works by Richmond quilter Rosie Lee Tompkins, and even that modest display was a sensation. The dazzling color, unusual forms and startling juxtapositions led a New York reviewer to call it a “life-changing, history-altering exhibition.” Now the museum, 24 years later, has reopened after the pandemic shutdown with a treasure trove of her works.
‘Calder-Picasso’ exhibit enlivens reopened SF de Young Museum
Alexander Calder's “La Grande Vitresse” (1969), on view at the de Young, is a sizable 9-feet-tall, but still only a model to 43-foot-tall version that stands in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) Alexander Calder created this oil painting of "My Shop" in 1955; it's on display at the de Young museum. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) Pablo Picasso's 1942 work "Bull's Head" was famously created from a discarded bicycle seat and handlebars.
‘Calder-Picasso’ exhibit enlivens reopened SF de Young Museum
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park really knows how to welcome visitors who are easing out of the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown. The Botanical Garden is in springtime bloom, there’s a 150-foot-tall Ferris wheel on the Music Concourse. And the de Young Museum features — direct from Paris! — a fresh and vibrant exhibit pairing Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso.
Bay Area museums: Here’s what’s reopening, and what you’ll see
Bay Area museums are cautiously reopening after months of on-again, off-again activity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of March, at least seven major museums should be welcoming visitors again, although days and hours will be limited and masks remain essential. The de Young Museum’s sculpture garden is open again, along with the extended Frida Kahlo exhibit. The Asian Art Museum’s jade collection is dazzling once more.
Museum exhibit explores being human in the age of AI
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Artist Stefanie Dinkins, a 2019 ar member of Stanford University’s center for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, interacts with a humanoid robot in installation “Conversations with Bina48,” part of the “Uncanny Valley” exhibit at the de Young in San Francisco.
SF de Young exhibit explores 'Being Human in the Age of AI' Original
The de Young Museum cleared out its cavernous contemporary art galleries, painted many of the walls black, and set up a harrowing tour through the landscape of artificial intelligence in the exhibit “Uncanny Valley.” Subtitled “Being Human in the Age of AI,” it suggests we’re in a precarious balance with intelligent machines. The term “uncanny valley” was introduced by a Japanese engineer to describe the uncertainty we may encounter with the arrival of human-like robots or thinking devices.
Competencies for the 21st century: Jurisdictional progress
Editor's Note: This research was a collaboration between Brookings and the Center for Curriculum Redesign. Education systems around the world are increasingly recognizing the need to teach their students a new set of competencies beyond traditional disciplines such as mathematics, science, and reading.
Review: SF’s de Young reopens with surprisingly vital look at Frida Kahlo Original
No tour groups. No coat check. No drinking fountains. No admission without a timed ticket arranged in advance. Limited attendance, no more than 25 percent of visitor capacity. And no one — staff or visitors — allowed in without a mask. Such was the cautious way San Francisco’s de Young Museum has reopened with its special exhibit about Frida Kahlo — by contrast, one of the most dynamic, colorful and intensely celebrated artists of the 20th century.
Amusing Things To Do During Lockdown
Even though you may be stuck inside your home due to the current lockdown, it doesn’t mean you can have fun or find new ways to amuse yourself. Many people have turned to online streaming, catching up housework, and even learning something new. While these are fantastic, there has got to be room for play and excitement. Adding a little pizazz into your daily quarantine routine will help fight off some of that fever.
Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Montano
Machel Montano is now a married man. The King of Soca wedded his long-time girlfriend, Renee Butcher, at the Red House in Port-of-Spain on Friday. SEE THE WEDDING PHOTOS HERE 1 of 26 More like this...
Machel a married man now
Machel Montano is now a married man. The King of Soca wedded his long-time girlfriend, Renee Butcher, at the Red House in Port-of-Spain on Friday. The Valentine’s Day ceremony was held in a hallway, located on the southern side of the building. The groom arrived at around 11.20am, accompanied by his parents. Montano was dressed in a white suit. His bride came in minutes later wearing a white two-piece pants and off the shoulder top outfit with a trail attached. She wore a colourful flower hair piece.
Exhibit highlights haunting 1900s American photos
Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center is making the most of the 1,000-plus photographs donated last year by the Capital Group Foundation. A second exhibit has opened in what is scheduled as a series of three shows displaying highlights of the trove, bit by bit. Curator Elizabeth Mitchell says the current exhibit offers “small bites” from the collection by three 20th-century photographers: John Gutmann, Helen Levitt and Wright Morris.
Cantor Arts Center opens new show of haunting 1900s American photos
Breaking News Editorial: A Senate impeachment trial without witnesses is a sham Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center is making the most of the 1,000-plus photographs donated last year by the Capital Group Foundation. A second exhibit has opened in what is scheduled as a series of three shows displaying highlights of the trove, bit by bit.
Cantor Arts Center opens new show of haunting 1900s American photos
Breaking News Editorial: A Senate impeachment trial without witnesses is a sham Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center is making the most of the 1,000-plus photographs donated last year by the Capital Group Foundation. A second exhibit has opened in what is scheduled as a series of three shows displaying highlights of the trove, bit by bit.
Review: ‘Soul of a Nation’ at de Young a powerful look at frontlines of black history
“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” exhibits more than 150 works, from small-scale photographs and intimate totems to wall-size abstract paintings. All this, by more than 60 African-American artists from coast to coast, fits into the timeline of just two decades, from 1963 to 1983. But what a time it was, from the art world to the streets, and it’s embraced by San Francisco’s de Young Museum and its director, Thomas Campbell.
Review: ‘Soul of a Nation’ at de Young a powerful look at frontlines of black history
“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” exhibits more than 150 works, from small-scale photographs and intimate totems to wall-size abstract paintings. All this, by more than 60 African-American artists from coast to coast, fits into the timeline of just two decades, from 1963 to 1983.
Review: ‘Soul of a Nation’ at de Young a powerful look at frontlines of black history
“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” exhibits more than 150 works, from small-scale photographs and intimate totems to wall-size abstract paintings. All this, by more than 60 African-American artists from coast to coast, fits into the timeline of just two decades, from 1963 to 1983.
Asian Art Museum turns focus on 2 artists who were ahead of their time
“The classics belong to us, the avant-gardists!” exclaimed Japanese painter and philosopher Saburo Hasegawa. His friendship with Japanese-American sculptor Isamo Noguchi in the 1950s underlined their exploration of the ancient and modern, East and West. ASIAN ART MUSEUM Isamo Noguchi’s 1957 sculpture “Calligraphics,” made of iron, wood and rope, is on display in the Asian Art Museum’s new exhibit.
Asian Art Museum in SF turns focus on 2 artists who were ahead of their time
Breaking News Map: PG&E planned power shutoff in Bay Area, Northern California “The classics belong to us, the avant-gardists!” exclaimed Japanese painter and philosopher Saburo Hasegawa. His friendship with Japanese-American sculptor Isamo Noguchi in the 1950s underlined their exploration of the ancient and modern, East and West.
Asian Art Museum in SF turns focus on 2 artists who were ahead of their time
Breaking News Map: PG&E planned power shutoff in Bay Area, Northern California “The classics belong to us, the avant-gardists!” exclaimed Japanese painter and philosopher Saburo Hasegawa. His friendship with Japanese-American sculptor Isamo Noguchi in the 1950s underlined their exploration of the ancient and modern, East and West.
New edgier exhibits find Bay Area museums confronting the world
Art is a product of its time and place, no matter what the style or subject. The same with major museum offerings: Why this exhibit? Why now? This fall, political and social issues are the focus of several Bay Area exhibits — art with a conscience, with a purpose. “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” coming to the de Young Museum, conveys the tumultuous period from 1963 to 1983.
New edgier exhibits find Bay Area museums confronting the world
Breaking News ‘Strongest’ storm system in several weeks set to hit Bay Area Art is a product of its time and place, no matter what the style or subject. The same with major museum offerings: Why this exhibit? Why now? This fall, political and social issues are the focus of several Bay Area exhibits — art with a conscience, with a purpose. “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” coming to the de Young Museum, conveys the tumultuous period from 1963 to 1983.
Tattoo exhibits ready to leave their mark in San Francisco
A woman walks past an interactive display of artwork and tattoos at "Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Don Ed Hardy's "Surf or Die." (Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) Ed Hardy may be most associated with his flashy, tiger- and skull-emblazoned clothing brand, which was popular in the early 2000s.
Museo Italo Americano exhibit in SF will make you feel like you’re in a Fellini movie
Breaking News Reports: Shooter identified in Gilroy shooting that killed three and wounded 12 The great Italian films from the decade after World War II — such as “Bitter Rice,” “Bicycle Thieves” and “La Strada” — weren’t just the inventions of directors gaining international fame. They had roots in Italian cities, villages and the countryside. Now an extensive collection of photographs from the era — actually, from 1932 to 1960 — is on view at the Museo Italo Americano in San Francisco.
Museo Italo Americano exhibit in SF will make you feel like you’re in a Fellini movie
Breaking News Reports: Shooter identified in Gilroy shooting that killed three and wounded 12 The great Italian films from the decade after World War II — such as “Bitter Rice,” “Bicycle Thieves” and “La Strada” — weren’t just the inventions of directors gaining international fame. They had roots in Italian cities, villages and the countryside. Now an extensive collection of photographs from the era — actually, from 1932 to 1960 — is on view at the Museo Italo Americano in San Francisco.
Tattoo exhibits ready to leave their mark in San Francisco
CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device Take your choice: Should you order “Tattoo Parlour by Ed Hardy Men’s Deodorant Body Spray” ($7.36) online? Or should you visit the de Young Museum (for $28) and see a full-fledged retrospective exhibit honoring the iconic San Franciscan and “father of modern tattoo culture”? Both choices have their upside. The de Young show marks San Francisco’s third exhibit in the past year exploring tattoos as art, culture and history.
Tattoo exhibits ready to leave their mark in San Francisco
CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device Take your choice: Should you order “Tattoo Parlour by Ed Hardy Men’s Deodorant Body Spray” ($7.36) online? Or should you visit the de Young Museum (for $28) and see a full-fledged retrospective exhibit honoring the iconic San Franciscan and “father of modern tattoo culture”? Both choices have their upside. The de Young show marks San Francisco’s third exhibit in the past year exploring tattoos as art, culture and history.
Tattoo exhibits ready to leave their mark in San Francisco
CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device Take your choice: Should you order “Tattoo Parlour by Ed Hardy Men’s Deodorant Body Spray” ($7.36) online? Or should you visit the de Young Museum (for $28) and see a full-fledged retrospective exhibit honoring the iconic San Franciscan and “father of modern tattoo culture”? Both choices have their upside. The de Young show marks San Francisco’s third exhibit in the past year exploring tattoos as art, culture and history.
Like father like sons, Bundy brothers serve together
1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Idaho Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Zane Bundy and Sgt. Nathan Bundy pose for a selfie while training together at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California May 29, 2019. The brothers, from Mountain Home, Idaho, both serve in the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team's 2nd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment. (Photo Credit: Courtesy) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Idaho Army National Guard Sgt.
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