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ME'DI.ATE's Soundwave Festival Finishes Up at the de Young Tonight, August 13

Posted by amartin on August 12, 2010

Friday Nights: Cultural Encounters at the de Young is excited to be the host of the closing of ME’DI.ATE’s Soundwave Festival, featuring The Drift. We will celebrate all that is at the intersection of space and sound this Friday. And what better place to experience experimental sound than in the angular public lobby of the de Young Museum under the shadow of Gerhard Richter’s Strontium? It will be a special environment August 13 when The Drift takes the stage with an arsenal of instruments including an electric bass, keyboard, trumpet, guitar and drums. Their music has hints of everything that you find in nature and music. You might have never heard anything like it. The Drift will take you on a magical journey, and your eardrums will be tricked into thinking you were outside in the park.

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"Over and Out Past the Lines" - June 2010 Artists-in-residence

Posted by Nicole on June 2, 2010

We would like to introduce June's Artists-in-Residence at the Kimball Education Gallery at the de Young Museum, Kim Shuck and Michael Horse. Below you will find some pictures highlighting the installation of "Over and Out Past the Lines" and Ms. Shuck's first entry regarding the process.

We are delighted to have Native artists inhabit the gallery for this month and look forward to sharing with the public many different experiences of Native art. Artists are on site Wednesday–Sunday, 1–5 pm (until 8:45 pm on Fridays in June). Admission into the Kimball Education Gallery is free of charge.

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John Buchanan and Guy Cogeval Discuss Birth of Impressionism on Forum

Posted by Andrew on May 21, 2010

John Buchanan and Guy CogevalYesterday morning FAMSF director John Buchanan and Musée d'Orsay president Guy Cogeval discussed the exhibition Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, which opens at the de Young Museum tomorrow, May 22, 2010.

In case you missed what some commenters are calling "the best Forum episode ever", you can stil listen online. In fact, we've embedded it in this very blog post! You can access it after the jump.

Birth of Impressionism runs through September 6, 2010. Later on that month, the de Young will host a follow-up show, Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay. That exhibition opens September 26 and runs through January 18, 2010.

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Podcast: Interview with Peter Solmssen about the First King Tut Exhibition

Posted by Andrew on March 18, 2010

In celebration of the final days of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, we present an interview with Alameda resident Peter Solmssen about his work with the original King Tut exhibition in the 1970s.

During that time, Mr. Solmssen served in the State Department as deputy ambassador-at-large for cultural affairs, and played an instrumental role in bringing Treasures of Tutanhkamun to the United States.

For this podcast, he took some time out to share some of his favorite experiences and anecdotes from his work with the exhibition, which appeared at the de Young in 1979.

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Fun with Patterns

Posted by Cheryl on January 25, 2010

fun with patternsFAMSF presents Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown in the Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Textile Gallery at the de Young. The exhibition, which runs through June 6, 2010, features 48 full-size and crib quilts that showcase the diversity of the Amish quilt tradition. As an exhibition supplement, the textile education gallery is devoted to quilts and visitors of all ages are invited to create their own quilt patterns using wooden blocks.

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2009 Jolika Fellowship Wrap-up

Posted by Andrew on November 13, 2009

Martin Morububuna and Purago Marabe completed their one-month-long residency in the Kimball Artist Studio on November 1, 2009.

Martin created a vibrant mural showing Papua New Guinea as a panoramic collective of plants, animals, houses, boats, people and their bilas. Bilas is a word in Melanesian Tok Pisin that refers to the array of headdresses, necklaces, belts, armbands, and aprons that people use to adorn themselves for dance and ceremony. The mural expresses Martin’s wish for all people to honor the past and keep traditional values strong.

2009 Jolika Fellows

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