Museum Going

I crossed #3 off my 30 Before 30 list: Go to an art museum that I have not yet visited.

I've been to a lot of art museums, more than most Americans I'm sure, but I had not been to the de Young in San Francisco so I headed off with three friends to check it out.

Some Highlights:

Mating Dogs

Dog Scratching its Head

Bread, Jasper Johns

I also took about a million photos of myself in these shiny ball-thingys by some artist whose name I didn't catch.

(This post is feeling a little irreverent, my being an Art Historian and all and museums being, like, MY CHURCH.)

I liked the de Young. I didn't love the de Young because they mix fine art with more crafty type pieces in a way that doesn't exactly float my boat. But there were some nice pieces, the Warhol exhibition was slightly tacky (Warhol would have so approved), and the coffee in the cafe was good.

The view from the top wasn't too shabby either.

Comments

[Hope]

I think that it's important to not always be totally reverent about art museums. Art is better when you don't always take it too seriously :)

[katelin]

i love going to a good museum! and man that view is amazing.

[Janet]

I need to get myself there! Man, I have no excuse - I can walk there from my house and I run by it all the time! I heard the YSL exhibit is good, too. Oh crap, I just realized I missed it! Boohoo. :)

[monica grado]

Hi Janet,

Christopher, Jonah, and I went to De Young this last summer. It was quite memorable as Jonah threw up on Christopher in the middle of an exhibit. The place stunk instantly and we then have to proceed to walk through the entire exhibit to get out with both of them covered in bodily fluids. Definately, a memorable De Young experience. Christopher did get a De Young shirt out of the entire thing since he smelled.