de Young Museum Opens Today in San Francisco
The de Young Museum is finally reopening this weekend in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Best of all, from noon today until 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, the museum is FREE TO THE PUBLIC! Current exhibitions include “Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh,” “Jasper Johns: 45 Years of Master Prints,” “Personal Perspectives: Aspects of American Photography,” and “Re-Classifying History: Catherine Wagner.” The new facilities were designed by Herzog & de Meuron, there is an Andy Goldsworthy site-specific commission called “Faultline” in the entryway, and one of my favorite designers, Walter Hood*, was the landscape architect.
*Walter Hood: Urban Diaries is a phenomenal monograph - it is out of print, but I believe you can still order it from Spacemaker Press. I’m not sure if anyone out there collages as well as Hood does, in my humble opinion, there should be an exhibition of them in the de Young.
October 16th, 2005 at 11:31 am
San Franciscans are hard core about their new museum!
Arrived at 2:00 am last night (this morn) to a line shockingly long line. Waited and made the best of it, but after two hours, we bailed. We were told we had another hour to go before we reached the door. I’ll have to try to make it up tonight.
October 16th, 2005 at 1:44 pm
Yowzah! Sounds like everyone else had the good 2 a.m. idea! Sounds worse than when IKEA opened here in Atlanta!