Free4All Museum Day
So, the most exciting thing I did this weekend was... museum crawl! Downtown San Francisco offered all their museums free4all to the public, all day on Saturday, Nov 10. It was sponsored by Oracle OpenWorld07, (I'm sure as some recompense for them getting to close the streets for a week), and co-organized by the Yerba Buena Cultural Neighborhood organization. I got an early start - getting onto BART at 10:30 (Bonnie had paperwork to do with Nicole that day). The musuems & galleries I visited - ones I've been to many times before : YBCA, the SF MOMA, Cartoon Art Museum, though the Academy of Sciences was closed due to a power outage (PG & E, you bastards), and several museums I've never been to : California Historical Society, Museum of African Diaspora; California Pioneers Museum; SF Camerawork; LBGT Archives; and Museum of Craft and Folk Arts. The highlights at each :
* YBCA - always exciting to see how this place changes every few months.A smaller venue with lesser-known artists, they seem to try harder than than their compadres at the MOMA. One exhibit had a photo series with an explosion, bullet-time style.
* SF MOMA - I didn't get into the special exhibits of Eliasson - lines were too long. It was the last museum I went to, so I was bushed... Though there was a neat Joseph Cornell collection.
* Cartoon Art Museum - Edward Gorey's Dracula! Nuff said. They were selling the 'Dracula Toy Theatre', which was a paper 3d-stand up of the sets and characters from Gorey's set design. Also, they had the works of Mary Blair, an art nouveau commercial designer, and early Disney animator.
* California Historical Society - special on camping in California
* California Pioneers Museum - one room on the Gold Rush, one on the history of minor league baseball.
* LBGT Archives - a look at lesbian folk music, and an exhibit on gays in the military. References to the quote "The Army gave me a medal for killing 2 men, and a discharge for loving one."
* SF Camerawork - artsy photo projects, one on 'flat daddy', and a youTube kiosk...
* Museum of African Diaspora - some interesting display kiosks about the dissemination and evolution of some musical styles, dance, fashion, and other cultural institutions. Also ones about food (don't see much diaspora connection there). Then the odd part - 2/3rds of the entire museum was taken up by the "What the World Eats" photo exhibit. Interesting, but odd...
* Museum of Craft and Folk Art - I've tried to get in here several times, but its always closed... finally got in there, but it was rather disappointing - only 1 room. But a few interesting ones - an anvil suspended on a plate of glass, a glass-blown sculpture looking like bubble wrap.
All in all - an exciting day & worthwhile to traipse around the city.
* YBCA - always exciting to see how this place changes every few months.A smaller venue with lesser-known artists, they seem to try harder than than their compadres at the MOMA. One exhibit had a photo series with an explosion, bullet-time style.
* SF MOMA - I didn't get into the special exhibits of Eliasson - lines were too long. It was the last museum I went to, so I was bushed... Though there was a neat Joseph Cornell collection.
* Cartoon Art Museum - Edward Gorey's Dracula! Nuff said. They were selling the 'Dracula Toy Theatre', which was a paper 3d-stand up of the sets and characters from Gorey's set design. Also, they had the works of Mary Blair, an art nouveau commercial designer, and early Disney animator.
* California Historical Society - special on camping in California
* California Pioneers Museum - one room on the Gold Rush, one on the history of minor league baseball.
* LBGT Archives - a look at lesbian folk music, and an exhibit on gays in the military. References to the quote "The Army gave me a medal for killing 2 men, and a discharge for loving one."
* SF Camerawork - artsy photo projects, one on 'flat daddy', and a youTube kiosk...
* Museum of African Diaspora - some interesting display kiosks about the dissemination and evolution of some musical styles, dance, fashion, and other cultural institutions. Also ones about food (don't see much diaspora connection there). Then the odd part - 2/3rds of the entire museum was taken up by the "What the World Eats" photo exhibit. Interesting, but odd...
* Museum of Craft and Folk Art - I've tried to get in here several times, but its always closed... finally got in there, but it was rather disappointing - only 1 room. But a few interesting ones - an anvil suspended on a plate of glass, a glass-blown sculpture looking like bubble wrap.
All in all - an exciting day & worthwhile to traipse around the city.
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