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Posts Tagged ‘painting’
The Mall Has It All: Stonestown Gives Shoppers a Glimpse of Heaven, Right Above the Tokyo Express
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011I’ve never noticed this oculus above the food court at Stonestown way out there in the fog-enshrouded West Bay. Can you see the Tokyo Express* sign?
Marvelous.
Is this Heaven or Las Vegas?
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*Of course Tokyo Express meant something else back in the day, back when you couldn’t even call the Japanese Tea Garden the Japanese Tea Garden.
“Forever 27″ Mural on Haight: Musicians, Whatever You Do, Don’t Join Club 27: Jones, Hendrix, Morrison and Cobain
Monday, May 9th, 2011Not sure what happened to Janis Joplin, but anyway, all these famous musical artists you can see on this mural in the Upper Haight passed on while they were 27 years of age.
See?
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Stay safe, young musicians
“The 27 Club, also occasionally known as the Forever 27 Club or Club 27, is a name for a group of influential rock and blues musicians who all died at the age of 27. The 27 Club consists of two related phenomena, both in the realm of popular culture. The first is a list of five famous rock musicians who died at age 27—Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain. The second is the idea that many other notable musicians have also died at the age of 27.
Family Cleaners – 3Hr Service No Extra Charge – Our Victorian Schoolhouse – Fella and Farfella
Friday, February 18th, 2011What does it all mean?
As seen North of the EaPA on the DivCo, the locus of NIMBY:
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San Francisco-Themed Painted-Tiles Ensure We’ll All Continue to Love Trader Joe’s – The Newish Mural on Masonic
Friday, October 29th, 2010Boy, somebody spent some time making sure that the painted tiles on the side of our Masonic Trader Joe’s got done right – there are a lot of details to notice while you’re idling in line on the slow lane of Masonic southbound.
(But come to think of it, the great line of idling cars isn’t as great as it used to be, for some reason. Wonder why…)
And oh, looks like grocery projects in the future will require shoppers to pay for parking – anyway, that’s the trend, my friend.
The vibrant mural of Trader Joe’s San Francisco, aka Trader Joe’s Store #100. It’s new, or newish at least:
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Happy shopping.
Lilac Alley Mural Project in the Mission Welcomes You to “Frisco”
Friday, August 20th, 2010See?
Steve Rhodes has all the deets about this shot:
His full (very full) gallery here.
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OMG, Win Tickets to See the Big Impressionists Show at the de Young Museum!
Friday, July 23rd, 2010[UPDATE: Looks like Darren K is the big winner today. Thanks for playing!]
I’ll tell you, the big Impressionists show over at our de Young Museum is the real deal. It’s a must-see, baby. But it’s leaving us on September 6th, 2010.
So, you need to get over there while you have the chance. Now, if you want to win a free pair of V.I.P. tickets (the kind without a time stamp so you can just show up and walk right in, generally), make a comment to this post telling everyone the name of the de Young’s affinity card that gets you discounts and special offers all over Northern California sometime after noon on Monday, July 26th, 2010. That’s it. I’m thinking that you’ll want to try posting right at noon on Monday. You got one shot at it. I’ll check the timestamp – 11:59 AM won’t cut it, but 12:00 PM or later will. First one wins. Use your real email, it won’t get published.
And, bonus, you’ll also get the hefty show catalog, which you could use to defend yourself in a streetfight, should the need arise.
And just look at what you might see there:
You can’t win if you don’t play.
Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay fever. Catch it.
Gavin and Montana Tessa Newsom Star at World Cup 2010 Finale in Civic Center
Monday, July 12th, 2010Montana Tessa Newsom was the cause of a frisson at yesterday’s showing of the Spain vs. Holland World Cup Final.
But before we get to that, I have a few notes for Rec and Park.
The giant TV screen(s) weren’t giant enough. Next time, how about using a big screen the way our corporate overlords do?
That crowd in Civic Center didn’t exactly have 10,000 people in it. Just because A.N.S.W.E.R.* exaggerates doesn’t mean you should too.**
Is the great Civic Center lawn ever coming back? Ever since Farmer Gavin’s Victory Garden got dug up, the gritty surface you put in there hasn’t won a lot of fans, right? What about the poor anime costume contest freaks who come back every year? They’re too professional to take off their headpieces so they’d prefer to pass out rather than break character on those hot, hot days of Springtime. 80 degrees + reflected radiation from the ground = heat stroke. Wouldn’t grass be nicer?
Is any part of the bill for this joint going to be sent to Gavin Newsom’s Lt. Governor campaign?
At the end of regulation play (with a scoreless tie, the best kind), Gavin gave a pat on the back to himself and to Rec and Park via a Mr. Microphone address to assembled voters. (That’s UC Hastings alum and Rec and Park chief Phil Ginsburg on the right patting someone else on the back, I think.)
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The crowd was enraptured:
MTN’s debut:
Does this look like 10,000 people to you?**
The eternal struggle – Bull vs. Lion. (The lion specializes in head kicks and scrotum grabs and the bull feigns great injury at the slightest touch. Cheating and crybabying pays off handsomely in international futbol, but it doesn’t get you big returns in the NFL, where the refs will catch game-changing cheating via instant replay. Speaking of which, the refs in American Football catch most of their own mistakes. Does this make American football better? Discuss.)
Congratulations to Rec and Park for a mostly well done op during WC 2010. You should have CW Nevius write about this joint until even he gets sick of his sycophancy.
See you in 2014!
*Check out this bit from Chris Roberts. Hey, congratulations ANSWER Coalition! I just knew you were going to win.
**I was there for about ten minutes, so I didn’t have a chance to properly consider the size of the throng. Upon further review, I’ll back away from my crowd size over-estimate allegation.
Reviews are IN for “Birth of Impressionism” at the de Young Museum – A Must See
Friday, May 28th, 2010I don’t know, once you get a Great European Museum to agree to send over its stuff while they do a little Spring Cleaning, well that’s pretty much all the heavy lifting you need right there – everything else takes care of itself. So of course you get your scholars working and you need to get cogitating about what goes where and why, but it’s all downhill after that. For whatever reason, we San Franciscans get more than our fair share of these kinds of museum loans.
As here, and now, at our de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Their awesome new exhibit, Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, is a smash success already.
Check out the pre-game report and The Review from Kenneth Baker, for starters:
“In view of the present exhibition, expectations for the second installment* could not be higher.”
O.K. then. It’s breathtaking, in’nt?
Be sure to listen to Guy Cogeval, President of the Musee d’Orsay in Paris and John Buchanan, Director of Fine Arts Museums San Francisco talk with Michael Krasny on 50 minutes worth of KQED Forum. And take a look at KGO-TV Channel 7′s special video report right here.
Check out Bill Wilson’s photos of the recent press preview last week.
Here are a few shots from the press preview. Hat Lady Jan Wahl was on the scene, as was Gavin Newsom, who generally does an excellent job at these kinds of events.
All the hard work is done, so all you need to do is get down there and check it out. Plan your visit now.
Peut-être je vous verrai la!
*It’s coming in September 2010: “Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces From the Musée d’Orsay.”
De Young Museum Firing on All Cylinders – Tut Has Departed, Impressionists Arrive May 22
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Let’s check in with our de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, shall we?
The Tut show is off to New Yawk by now, but here’s what the unpacking and repacking process looked like.
So, first, Egyptian specialists monitor the unpacking and inspect for any shipping damage. As seen last year before the show:
Then, you have the spectacle…
…and then you have the repacking. See? Each piece gets inspected for what seems like hours and then gets put back into its own Styrofoam cubby hole. Next stop, Times Square:
(3000 years sitting around in Egypt, then a couple worldwide roadtrips over several decades, and then another 3000 years in Egypt? Don’t think that major pieces of the Tut collection will ever leave Egypt again.)
Anyway, Tut had to clear out to make way for Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay. I don’t know how this all works out, but it seems whenever our European friends clean up their museums and do a little renovating, they send their good stuff to San Francisco for safekeeping. Sweet.
And speaking of firing on all cylinders, our MSM’s arts coverage is functioning as designed, it would seem. Check out this detailed report from Julian Guthrie and Lance Iversen as well as this one from Janos Gereben. Look forward to their reviews. Speaking of which…
This show is going to be awesome. I mean, how could you mess this one up?
Stayed tuned….
Accessible masterpieces, what could be better?
The Fifer. 1866. Édouard Manet (1832-1883). Oil on canvas, 63 3/8 x 38 1/4 inches. RMN (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
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