Bouquets to Art — Fine Arts Museum fundraiser blooms once more at de Young mtdemocrat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mtdemocrat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Response to colonialism takes over the Legion of Honor
Wangechi Mutu, Shavasana II, 2019. Bronze, 84 x 59 x 10 in. Edition of 3. Courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery. Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.-The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco opened Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?, a sprawling, site-specific exhibition of new and recently created sculpture, collage, and film by visionary Kenyan American artist Wangechi Mutu. Staked out from the Court of Honor through the entire first floor of the museum, the artist s alternate universe of powerful female characters, hybrid beings, and fantastical landscapes, challenges traditional art histories, mythologies, and conventional techniques of archiving and remembering. Part of the Museums contemporary art program and three years in the making, I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? responds to the permanent collection and neoclassical architecture of the Legio
A view of Amsterdam at midday. A dark forest with sunlight peeking through the trees as a woman washes clothes in a river. A young boy feeding a monkey as a man to his left holds back a swan.
These are scenes from three paintings owned by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, part of a batch of 10 European artworks obtained between 1933 and 1945 that FAMSF is now reviewing for their possible connection to Nazi-looted art.
The city’s largest arts institution, which oversees the de Young Museum and the California Legion of Honor, has in total some 100,000 pieces of art. It “stands as one of the most visited arts institutions in the United States,” according to its website.
Kansas Statehouse murals were John Steuart Curry s biggest undertaking cjonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cjonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Popular Bay Area attractions opening back up as COVID rules are eased
KTVU s Andre Senior reports.
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - A year ago, this was the last normal week for everyone in the Bay Area, so it’s only that this is the week the region starts to turn a corner.
We’re looking forward to being able to open more things, said Tim Murphy, CEO of Boomers Parks.
It still won’t be like the old days, but it’s a step in the right direction after COVID forced many business closures.
At the Boomers location in Livermore, Murphy said activities such as Skee-Ball and indoor rock climbing can resume now that much of the Bay Area is moving into the red-tier.