Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in October 2017 The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco will present the first major Gustav Klimt exhibition on the west coast through January 28, 2018. A leader of the symbolist movement, Klimt’s opulent, jewel-like surfaces came to define painting of the art nouveau era in Vienna….
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in August 2017 Many of us can’t remember a world where Andy Warhol’s soupcan paintings and Roy Lichtenstien’s ben day dots weren’t a ubiquitous part of modern art’s visual landscape. Once in a while a book comes along to remind us that the images we now take…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in July 2017 Through August 20, 2017, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle brings her installation “Missing” to San Francisco. This exhibition, presented by the Fort Mason Center for the Arts & Culture, will be her most extensive to date in the United States. Missing follows the themes…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in May 2017 From May 18th through January 8, 2018, The Walt Disney Family Museum presents Awakening Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle. Best known as the lead stylist for Walt Disney’s classic film Sleeping Beauty (1959) and for concept art that shaped Disney favorites Lady and…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in June 2017 Self Portrait: Between the Clock and The Bed is a work conceived by Symbolist painter Edvard Munch between 1940 and 1943. A gaunt figure stares ahead absorbed in thought while standing between the comfort of his bed and a grandfather clock hiding behind the…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in April 2017 Art, fashion and rock and roll come together at the de Young to commemorate the 50th anniversary celebration of San Francisco’s most vibrant counterculture moment – the summer of 1967. This era’s story will be told with more than 300 cultural artifacts including iconic…
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Originally published by the Marina Times San Francisco in March 2017 Through May 29, The Legion of Honor will feature approximately 60 paintings representing Claude Monet’s formative period as a painter. From 1858 to 1872, Monet honed his distinctive style that would help define the French Impressionist movement. Rarely seen paintings representing Monet’s early development…
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Originally published in the Marina Times San Francisco in February 2017 “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” – Diane Arbus Through April 30th, the SFMOMA presents the first seven years of Diane Arbus career as a photographer of subjects that confront our sense of…
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