Portland-based, homespun folk band Blitzen Trapper releases their seventh album (aptly titled VII) Tuesday. Fans of the Americana quintet can look forward to more country-creased sounds that this time around are tinged with a darker R&B vibe. Read More…
“I am the flower, but I am also the thorn,” said 20th-century nature photographer Rose Mandel. This dualistic and prolific statement is just one of the many insights into the complex mind of the Polish-born Mandel (1910-2002), whose series of photographs titled “The Errand of the Eye” is currently being Read More…
“Do search,” said artist Richard Diebenkorn, “but in order to find other than what is searched for.” This motto is an apt approach for museum-goers at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, which is currently housing works by the Bay Area painter. The exhibit, “Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years,” on view through Read More…
She has captivated viewers for years with her exotic headdress, pictorial elegance and penetrating eyes, and now Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is finally accessible to an American audience with her first North American stop at San Francisco’s de Young Museum. The exhibit, “Girl with a Pearl Earring: Read More…
Girl with a Pearl Earring at the de Young After nearly 20 years outside of the U.S., Johannes Vermeer’s famous painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” will open in San Francisco’s de Young Museum on Saturday. Spawning a fictionalized book and subsequent movie, much has been said about the girl Read More…
“Keith” is nearly four feet by three feet in dimension, a black and white portrait print. The mouth seems almost faded, a rectangle of blanching discernible amid the gray monochrome of the face. He is unsmiling, and his eyes look at something in the distance, the reflection off the top Read More…
When the de Young Museum first asked Jean Paul Gaultier to have a retrospective exhibition, he turned them down. After all, the word retrospective means to look backwards, and usually implies glass cases enclosing works from artists who have seen their prime come and go. As he says, retrospectives are Read More…
Springtime is almost here and with it come some cracking exhibitions at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Bay Area art enthusiasts will delight in what the De Young has to offer starting this month and continuing into the onset of summer. Veering away from paintings towards more everyday Read More…