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Mali – Color and Fabric

Mali – Color and Fabric
“Rhythm and Hues: Cloth and Culture of Mali, West Africa” is an exhibit on view until May at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco. Mali is not only the country of ‘Timbuktu”, it is also a treasure trove of fabric artisans. The program “highlights the enduring significance of textiles...

Musée d’Orsay Masterpieces at the deYoung

Musée d’Orsay Masterpieces at the deYoung
Beginning May 22, 2010, the de Young Museum of San Francisco focuses on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art from Paris. “Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay presents nearly 100 magnificent works by the famous masters who called France their home during the mid- to late-19th...

Drawings and Prints at The MET

Drawings and Prints at The MET
Until April 11, 2010, drawings and prints from the 16th to the 21st centuries will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The work, from the museum’s permanent collection, represents artists from America, Italy, France, Holland and England in all their diverse styles: Raphael, Rembrandt,...

Altars and Rituals of the Diaspora at MoAD

Altars and Rituals of the Diaspora at MoAD
Beginning March 20, 2010, the Museum of the African Diaspora showcases photographer Bryan Wiley’s portfolio dealing with Altars and Rituals from around the world. “Wiley has assembled his photographs of altar objects from Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, South Carolina and New Orleans into large ornate frames...

Indian Art – Cleveland Museum

Indian Art – Cleveland Museum
“Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection” * March 7 – May 30, 2010 “This exhibition of about 145 objects from the Thaw collection of the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York will re-introduce the museum visitors to American Indian art in a broad survey that samples Native...

Photography as Art Form – SF MOMA

Photography as Art Form – SF MOMA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has always supported the idea of Photography as art. “SFMOMA was one of the first museums in the country to treat photography as an equal to painting and sculpture. In celebration of the museum’s 75 years of engagement with the medium, this exhibition explores...

The Frick and “Masterpieces”

The Frick and “Masterpieces”
Beginning March 9, 2010, the Frick will showcase “Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery”. “The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the loan of nine Old Master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, one of the major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century...

Maurice Prendergast – Watercolors of Italy

Maurice Prendergast – Watercolors of Italy
The work that he produced in Italy is the focus of the exhibit of American Impressionist artist Maurice Prendergast, 1858 – 1924, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston until May 9, 2010. “Prendergast in Italy features more than 60 picturesque views of Venice, Rome, Siena, and Capri drawn from a number...

Focus On Artists- SFMOMA

Focus On Artists- SFMOMA
Now until May 23, 2010, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is showcasing, “Focus On Artists – Selections from the Collection” “This exhibition looks at SFMOMA’s long-term relationships with several modern masters whose iconic works were influential in defining movements from...

Tutankhamun * SF deYoung

Tutankhamun * SF deYoung
King Tutankhamun’s San Francisco revisit is coming to an end. First seen in 1979, the boy king returned to the de Young Museum in a brand new exhibit featuring 130 pieces – jewelry, statues, masks, gold objects and of course that famous golden sarcophagus. “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age...

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