Arts & Entertainment 'Ramses the Great' Egyptian Artifact Exhibit Comes to the deYoung This Summer A touring exhibition of rare Egyptian artifacts, some unearthed just in recent years, will be coming to the deYoung Museum starting August 20.
Arts & Entertainment Artist Judy Chicago to Perform Colorful 'Smoke' Piece Outside deYoung Next Week Feminist artist Judy Chicago is getting a long-overdue retrospective of her work, which is now on view through January at the deYoung Museum. And as part of the festivity around the show, Chicago will be bringing one of her performative "smoke" pieces to the Music Concourse on Saturday, October 16.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Reopens This Weekend With Pandemic-Themed Exhibit; deYoung Reopens With 'Calder-Picasso' San Francisco's two biggest art museums reopen this weekend after three-month closures, as the city moves into the "Red" tier allowing for 25% capacity at museums.
Arts & Entertainment Society Queen Dede Wilsey Is Officially Stepping Down As President of the deYoung/Legion Of Honor Board Several years after a mini-scandal and subsequent shakeup on the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), which had led to some talk of a change in leadership, museum queen bee and general SF society character Dede Wilsey has been replaced.
Arts & Entertainment Six Things To Know Before Going To the deYoung's 'Monet: The Late Years' Exhibit The new Monet exhibit at the deYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park has been a major draw since debuting two weeks ago. I checked it out in the middle of a crowded Sunday, and I have some advice.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] DeYoung Museum Apologizes For Illegal Sidewalk Stencil Ads The marketing team at the deYoung Museum clearly missed the memo that San Francisco does not allow spray-stencil advertising of any kind on its sidewalks, because a tipster alerted us to some new
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: As She Predicted, Wilsey Is Staying In Charge Of Museums Board Dede Wilsey's "personal fiefdom" managing the deYoung Museum and Legion of Honor shall apparently continue with only a few small changes, at least according to reports from special sessions of the museums' board
Arts & Entertainment Highlights From The New York Times' Portrait Of Dede Wilsey, 'Defiant Socialite' Ick. "Dede Wilsey Is the Defiant Socialite" https://t.co/5glUznL0UO— Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) September 25, 2016 Following an evisceration of her work as board president and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Wilsey Was Biggest Donor In DCCC June Elections, Pretty Unsuccessful Hold onto your pearls, folks: The powers of Dede Wilsey may fast be waning. A consummate socialite who has long held sway over the deYoung Museum and the Legion of Honor as the
Arts & Entertainment Oh Dear, Dede: NY Times Eviscerates Wilsey While Chronicle Offers Her A Defense Having a blast learning all about Dede Wilsey. (Larry Sultan photo) pic.twitter.com/T7ebXUhmpz— Britton (@br_tton) August 2, 2016 In the ongoing saga surrounding wealthy SF socialite Dede Wilsey and her
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Wilsey Stepping Down As Board President Amid Museums Scandal Major news in the museum world as local socialite and longtime board president of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco which include the deYoung and the Legion of Honor Dede Wilsey is
Arts & Entertainment 'Ed Ruscha and the Great American West' Opens Saturday at the deYoung Of the 20th Century painters who are most associated with California Diebenkorn, Park, Hockney, Thiebauld none created as bold, graphic, and ironic a style as Ed Ruscha (pronounced Roo-shay). He's most often tied
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Art And High Style Of Mr. David, Couturier To The Drag Stars You aren't going to find Mr. David's clothes on a sale rack, ever. But last week, two decades of daily work putting handmade fashions on local drag queen Juanita MORE! and a bevy
Arts & Entertainment Oh Dear, Dede: Two More Museum Board Members, Including Former City Attorney, Resign Over Wilsey Dustup The drama continues at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco i.e. the joint board that oversees the deYoung and Legion of Honor as ongoing infighting persists over a "disability severance" payment
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Recipient Of Contested deYoung Payment Dies, Prompting New Call For Reimbursement The petite society scandal in which longtime deYoung Museum grande dame Dede Wilsey brought some unwanted attention to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's financial controls has taken a new turn. Wilsey
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Mrs. Wilsey Defiant, Says She Didn't Need Board Approval For Gift In a new memo to the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, chair and CEO Dede Wilsey says she did absolutely nothing wrong and there is absolutely nothing to worry
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: State Opens Inquiry Into Wilsey's Apparent Financial Misconduct Well, since it looks like this scandal at the deYoung involving Dede Wilsey won't be going away, I guess it's time she gets her own tag along the lines of Oh No, Ed
SF News [Update] Should Living In An Apartment For 34 Years Give You The Right To Stay There? The story of artist David Brenkus, a Duboce Triangle resident since 1981, getting evicted by the family of deYoung Museum curator Emma Harshawat (née Acker) is obviously an irresistible one for both sides
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dede Wilsey Accused Of Financial Misconduct A jilted Sacramento bride decided to throw the reception anyway and feed the homeless, and multiple local TV stations covered it. [ABC 7, CBS 5] Among several other incidents in the Mission over
Arts & Entertainment New Exhibit Shows SoMa In The Days Before It Became All Lofts And Startups Last year we heard about photographer Janet Delaney's coffee-table book of 1970s and early 80s photos of SoMa, in the days before the Moscone Center and Yerba Buena and the rest of it
SF News De Young Museum's 'Neptune's Daughter' Statue Loses, Regains An Arm "Neptune's Daughter," a bronze sculpture that stood prominently in the Garden of Enchantment to the right of the de Young Museum until 2011, was vandalized that year and quietly removed from the garden
Arts & Entertainment 9 Ideas For Rainy Day Activities In San Francisco Does everyone remember what rain is like? It's back for a return, so we thought we'd remind you what people do in the event that it's really wet outside. There shall be no
Arts & Entertainment David Hockney's iPad Painting Exhibit Opens At DeYoung Widely loved British painter and FOW (friend of Warhol) David Hockney, who splits his time between London, his native Yorkshire, and Los Angeles, took quickly to the medium of the iPad. In what
Arts & Entertainment Don't Worry, Haters, Dede Wilsey Is Doing Just Fine We've always maintained a gay boner for Dede Wilsey. How could we not? She unironically dresses like a 16-year-old Disney princess. We love it. And we love you, Dede. But not everyone feels
Arts & Entertainment Expect Lines To See 'Girl With A Pearl Earring' At DeYoung Starting this weekend, the DeYoung Museum becomes the exclusive West Coast venue for a tour of Dutch masters paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis at The Hague. The centerpiece of the exhibition
