On their next trip to San Francisco, your readers can take in a big double-header. Through February 4, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, is hosting ‚ÄúWalker Evans,‚Äù a humungous retrospective of the seminal 20th century photographer‚Äôs work. Four-hundred images, some little larger than postage stamps‚Äî it‚Äôs informative, and it is exhausting. But… Continue reading Contemporary Jewish Museum: Jewish Folktales
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Edvard Munch
Rodin is famous for The Thinker, but also for The Kiss and a number of other sculptures. Warhol is known for his soup cans, but also for Marilyn and a number of other prints. Van Gogh, Renoir, Matisse ‚Äî they may have a best-known piece, but they all have deep benches. Who’s the exception? Edvard… Continue reading Edvard Munch
in situ
It‚Äôs a bold idea. The concept behind SFMOMA‚Äôs new restaurant, in situ, is to work ‚Äúdirectly with chefs and restaurants around the world to faithfully execute their recipes.‚Äù What this means is that the menu consists of dishes from leading restaurants from countries around the world including Canada, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Spain and the USA.… Continue reading in situ
Anthony Hernandez
Fresh Eyes It‚Äôs rare when works of art ‚Äî books, movies, photos ‚Äî can change your perspective. But Anthony Hernandez, whose photo retrospective is the first special exhibition of San Francisco‚Äôs recently re-opened SFMOMA, did just that for me. Like Ed Ruscha, whose retrospective is featured a few miles away at the de Young, many… Continue reading Anthony Hernandez
Tropisueño
If you’re at the Moscone Center or in one of San Francisco‚Äôs museum districts (Third and Mission is flanked by SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora and the Contemporary Jewish) and you want to eat where museumites eat, enter the mini-food zone of Yerba Buena Lane next to the big cube of the Contemporary Jewish,… Continue reading Tropisue√±o