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Wordsmith extraordinaire Meres-Sia Gabriel ventures off into Soul Poetry at the De Young Museum on June 17 with saxophonist Howard Wiley sfbayview.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfbayview.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It was announced Friday morning that former A’s player Jeremy Giambi died by suicide Wednesday, the Outer Sunset is one step closer to getting its first dispensary, and Barack and Michelle Obama's nearly life-sized portraits in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery are coming to SF this summer. ....
Joshua Kosman May 3, 2021Updated: May 3, 2021, 7:48 pm Visitors walk into the de Young Museum on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is undertaking a new examination of the history of a dozen artworks in its collection, following a recent inquiry by a Northern California publication that raised questions about whether some of the institution’s holdings may have ties to Nazi-era art looting. The works, which date from the 15th to the 19th centuries, have gaps in their provenance (a detailed history of ownership) that can sometimes be a sign of theft. There is no evidence that these works were stolen, FAMSF spokeswoman Miriam Newcomer told The Chronicle on Monday. ....
Tony Bravo March 11, 2021Updated: March 11, 2021, 5:42 pm Artwork by Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso is seen March 2 at the “Calder-Picasso” exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle In their groundbreaking 20th century works, Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso changed the way art approached the subject of space itself. Picasso’s paintings explode concepts of line and dimension, explored through both abstraction and representation in his art. Calder’s signature mobiles and wire sculptures make the viewer consider the area between materials as well as their ever-changing movability. Although born only 17 years apart and moving in many of the same modern art circles, the two artists only met four times in their lives. Their most significant intersection was in 1937, at the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair, where Calder’s “Mercury Fountain” made its debut and Picasso famously hung his ant ....