i heart museums
Exhibitions I plan on checking out --
"The Quilts of Gee's Bend" at the de Young, SF
"Monet in Normandy" and "Picasso as Book Illustrator" at the Legion of Honor, SF
"California as Muse: The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews" at the Oakland Museum -- I learned about these artists in my Arts & Crafts Movement art history course.
Ever since returning to school, I've gotten hooked on museum-going. Well, durr, being an art major means going to museums for reports. But now I actually frequent museum websites to see what is going on.
Here's a tally of museums I've been to since 2005 and the reasons I went -
-de Young - 2 - Hatshepsut in October; International Arts & Crafts Movement in April
-SFMOMA - 1 - the 1906 Earthquake perspective in March
-Berkeley Art Museum - 1 - exhibition on three California photographers - I remember Larry Sultan's work the most. He photographed porn movie sets in San Fernando Valley.
-San Jose Museum of Art - 3 - "Brides of Frankenstein" in October; "Listening Post" twice in May.
-Portland Museum of Art - 1 - we were on vacation. - The European art wing, the British silver room, and the Greene & Greene stained glass windows = WHOA!
-Royal BC Museum in Victoria - 1 - we were on vacation. - It is easy to get lost in that museum. The 20th C perspective was spectacular.
I really want to go to the LA County Museum to check out their extensive collection of Arts & Crafts Movement pieces. If I ever get down to LA, the Gamble House in Pasadena would also be on my to-do list.
One of my current hobbies is driving around the old neighbourhoods in my area to look at bungalows....Oh! That reminds me....One of the many videos we watched in my Arts & Crafts Movement class was California Bungalows. When they focused on Pasadena, that whole segment made my jaw drop. I recognised a lot of those bungalows from when Karen took me on a tour of rich houses in Pasadena. I didn't know those funky mansions were called bungalows!
It's kinda funny how my priorities have shifted from show-going to museum-going. From 2000 to 2005, I was obsessed with going to shows. I even posted show-going tallies on LJ in 2003 and 2004. Then, school happened.
"The Quilts of Gee's Bend" at the de Young, SF
"Monet in Normandy" and "Picasso as Book Illustrator" at the Legion of Honor, SF
"California as Muse: The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews" at the Oakland Museum -- I learned about these artists in my Arts & Crafts Movement art history course.
Ever since returning to school, I've gotten hooked on museum-going. Well, durr, being an art major means going to museums for reports. But now I actually frequent museum websites to see what is going on.
Here's a tally of museums I've been to since 2005 and the reasons I went -
-de Young - 2 - Hatshepsut in October; International Arts & Crafts Movement in April
-SFMOMA - 1 - the 1906 Earthquake perspective in March
-Berkeley Art Museum - 1 - exhibition on three California photographers - I remember Larry Sultan's work the most. He photographed porn movie sets in San Fernando Valley.
-San Jose Museum of Art - 3 - "Brides of Frankenstein" in October; "Listening Post" twice in May.
-Portland Museum of Art - 1 - we were on vacation. - The European art wing, the British silver room, and the Greene & Greene stained glass windows = WHOA!
-Royal BC Museum in Victoria - 1 - we were on vacation. - It is easy to get lost in that museum. The 20th C perspective was spectacular.
I really want to go to the LA County Museum to check out their extensive collection of Arts & Crafts Movement pieces. If I ever get down to LA, the Gamble House in Pasadena would also be on my to-do list.
One of my current hobbies is driving around the old neighbourhoods in my area to look at bungalows....Oh! That reminds me....One of the many videos we watched in my Arts & Crafts Movement class was California Bungalows. When they focused on Pasadena, that whole segment made my jaw drop. I recognised a lot of those bungalows from when Karen took me on a tour of rich houses in Pasadena. I didn't know those funky mansions were called bungalows!
It's kinda funny how my priorities have shifted from show-going to museum-going. From 2000 to 2005, I was obsessed with going to shows. I even posted show-going tallies on LJ in 2003 and 2004. Then, school happened.