By Lupita Franco Peimbert Renowned photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has been in San Francisco for the last couple of weeks, organizing his photos. He and a curator finished the layout throughout the 10-room galleries on the 7th floor at the San Francisco Museum of Art. He likes to be involved in his exhibits. “I have been … More To Look Without Fear
By Lupita Franco Peimbert Joan Brown was a San Francisco-born artist whose work spans four decades. She is credited with popularizing the San Francisco Bay Area as an arts destination. Her paintings are vivid, her sculptures are creative, and her style changed as she incorporated aspects of her life, travels, and exposure to other cultures. … More Joan Brown: Her Life Through Painting
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Peanuts Gang! Love is… dog lips, your Sweet Babboo, and of course, waiting by the mailbox in hopes of receiving that special Valentine. Join cartoonist Robert W. Pope and learn to draw some of the comic’s most iconic pairings, from Snoopy and Lucy to Sally and Linus, to fill your special someone’s mailbox with … More How to Draw, on Valentine’s Day!
After nearly 20 years leading the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Neal Benezra, the Helen and Charles Schwab Director, today announced that he will begin the transition from this role and assist the museum with its succession plan and international search for a new director. Benezra will continue to lead the day-to-day operations … More Neal Benezra To Leave His Role At The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
SFMOMA PRESENTS FREE ONLINE PROGRAM DAVID PARK: 7×7 – January 14, 2021 at 5 PM PST Wayne Thiebaud, Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant and Helen Park Bigelow Among Seven Acclaimed Speakers Who Celebrate the Late Founder of Bay Area Figurative Art in Seven-Minute Segments WHAT: The free online program David Park: 7×7 comprises 49+ minutes of art, insights and … More SFMOMA Celebrates the Life of David Park
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor Museum separately announced that, beginning on Sunday, November 29th at 5:00 PM, they will be temporarily closed again. The art institution said they are following the City and County of San Francisco’s Health Department directions. These follows California … More San Francisco Museums Temporarily Closed Again Due to COVID-19.
This year Thanksgiving Day is on November 26th. This date is also the birthday of Charles M. Schulz, the cartoonist who created the comic strip PEANUTS, publishing it from 1950 through February 2000. “Sparky,” as he was called, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 26, 1922, and lived several decades in Santa Rosa, California … More Thanksgiving this year is Peanuts Day. I mean, it is Charles M. Schulz Birthday!
By Lupita Franco Peimbert Uncertainty, the pandemic, the Holidays…I am not crazy when I assert that millions of people have worries about the current state of the world, in every town and city. I am talking about regular people who can handle many things in life. I am one of those and if you are … More Why it is extremely important to go to SFMOMA or any art museum these days.
Today is his birthday! … More Happy Birthday René Magritte!
Te presento la exhibición de Frida Kahlo “Las Apariencias Engañan,” en el Museo de Young de San Francisco. Si todavía no has ido, ¡alborotate! – Vale la pena.
Georgia O’Keeffe was an American painter considered “The Mother of American Modernism.” She was born in Wisconsin, on November 15, 1887. Some of her most important work is at the Metropolitan Museum and at private collections. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has one of her pieces. She passed away in 1986. From … More American Painter Georgia O’Keeffe was born on a day like today, November 15th
Si hay un museo fuera de México que con constancia y acierto le presenta al mundo la cultura mexicana es el de Young Museum de San Francisco. Esta vez el de Young nos trae la vida y obra de Frida Kahlo, la famosa y legendaria pintora convertida en ícono cultural un poco del feminismo, un … More Tienes que ir a la exhibición de Frida Kahlo: Las Apariencias Engañan.
By Lupita Franco. Museums help us understand the past and a little more. Perhaps visiting a museum and seeing the culture created by past generations make us realize that much of what we think as new has been done before, that groups of people have for centuries tried to preserve who we are and what … More That Picture Perfect Museum in Etna, California.
By Lupita Franco Peimbert On the main street of a community considered one of the most beautiful towns in the United States (2017), the Siskiyou Arts Museum in Dunsmuir, California, stands out as a cultural center with a good dose of heart and vision, providing locals and visitors wonderful opportunities to enjoy and be part … More A Siskiyou County Museum
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