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Everybody have fun last night, everybody Wang Chung last night under the roof of the huge Diane (Dede!) B. Wilsey and Alfred S. Wilsey Court.
It was hopping at the de Young museum in Golden Gate Park. Yesterday was the opener of the new season, so people were going until 10:00 PM. They're trying to put the young into the de Young, you see. It's working.
Check it out after work every Friday until March. A few more shots after the jump.
There was some huge papercraft project going on. It involved a lot of Elmer's, that's all we know.
The Ben Goldberg Quintet inspired by A BERMUDA WINDOW IN A SEMI-TROPIC CHARACTER, by Marsden Hartley
Here were the groups that performed:
The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra
("The Peaceable Kingdom" by Edward Hicks)
Erik Jekabson's "West Coast" Quartet + Strings
("Anti-Mass" by Cornelia Parker)
Howard Wiley & The Angola Project
("Cotton Picker" by Robert Gwathmey)
Kasey Knudsen Sextet
("Cowgirl" by Deborah Oropallo, from the traveling exhibition Guise, on view at Gallery 16 through February 15, 2008)
Angela Wellman's New Roots
("Imunu" featured in the Jolika Collection)
Ben Goldberg Quintet
("A Bermuda Window in a Semi-Tropic Character" by Marsden Hartley)
The Babatunde Lea Quartet
("Hovor II" by El Anatsui)
Mitch Marcus Quintet + 13
("Lake Basin in High Sierra" by Chiura Obata)
This is a great venue to meet people outside of a bar scene (although liquor is available) or just hang with your peeps. See you there next Friday!
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Was there any art? As far as I could tell when I went, the de Young is a big party palace disguised as a museum, with the hoi polloi in the big atrium downstairs and the VIPs in the tower.
That photo is not of Mitch Marcus +13, it's actually Ben Goldberg's band. And as someone who's documented tons of the local jazz scene in the City for the past couple of years, I can't believe you didn't mention that this Friday opener featured some of the best young local jazz musicians the City has to offer, and all at once and all at one event. Even more impressive is that the night featured one original composition inspired by a piece of artwork in the museum by all eight bands -- a project that was funded in part via grants from the de Young in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts. MAJOR KUDOS to those organizations for directly supporting to local jazz scene!
That photo is not of Mitch Marcus +13, it's actually Ben Goldberg's band. And as someone who's documented tons of the local jazz scene in the City for the past couple of years, I can't believe you didn't mention that this Friday opener featured some of the best young local jazz musicians the City has to offer, and all at once and all at one event. Even more impressive is that the night featured one original composition inspired by a piece of artwork in the museum by all eight bands -- a project that was funded in part via grants from the de Young in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts. MAJOR KUDOS to those organizations for directly supporting to local jazz scene!
Thanks for the info about the quintets - got them mixed up.
That was a lot of well-dressed hoi polloi the other day during the swearing-in reception.
They did go after the horsey derveys like a pack of seagulls, though.
Don't see what the issue is about keeping the museum open late when it would otherwise be closed.
arg... why do people seem to always misuse this word?
hoi polloi
That's how hoi polloi was used in this thread.
The first commenter was making a reference to the recent swearing in ceremony where 3000 people RSVPed and 3800 or something showed up. In this case, the hoi polloi were the people admitted tinto the museum but denied access to the infamous de Young tower. In lesser city, such as Portland, these hoi polloi would be the elites.
Hoi polloi (Greek: οἱ πολλοί)
usually used in a derogatory sense. For example, "I've secured a private box for the play so we don't have to watch the show with hoi polloi." Synonyms for "hoi polloi" include "...commoners, great unwashed, multitude, plebeians, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, the common people, the herd, the many, the masses, the peons, the working class".[1]
or bloggers.
They were too well-dressed to be bloggers, who tend towards wearing underwear all the time.
Doesn't change the fact that Dede "Yesss it iiiiiiis!!" W.'s legacy to society is razing our history (against the will of the voters, who rejected the museum twice) and erecting monument-to-herself sandcrawler in its place. Ugh.
I think the fact that we're in earthquake country also played a role in the razing.
The voters rejected kicking in lots of public money, the voters didn't reject private financing.
The building DOES look like a sandcrawler though, huh?
Dude it's totally a sandcrawler. I like to sneak up behind Dede at events and whisper "uttini!", if you can whisper with an exclamation point. I think she likes it.