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A Night at the Museum, Every Friday at the New de Young
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!