Friday Nights at the de Young: 2013 Season Opening Night | Golden Gate Park
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de Young Museum | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
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Friday Nights at the de Young | Fall 2018
One of San Francisco’s most celebrated after-hours museum events returns for a fall season of 2018.
These nine Friday Nights feature free admission to the main-level galleries highlighted by a reinterpretation of contemporary art in their permanent collection and new acquisitions called Specters of Disruption. In addition, Friday Nights will offer reduced-price tickets of $14 to the exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions from 6–8:30 pm.
Through social-media moments and in-person dialogue, visitors can engage and commune with the art and with one another in a warm and welcoming setting. Enjoy specialty drinks and mocktails, coffees, teas, and snacks. Bring your friends. Strike a pose at the selfie wall. Listen to music. Make art. Activities take place from 6–8:30 pm.
On March 29, 2013, join the deYoung Museum on the plein for the opening of the ninth season of Friday Nights at the de Young and celebrate the museum’s collections as well as the special exhibitions Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis and Rembrandt’s Century.
Drawing in Vermeer’s Studio
Piazzoni Murals Room
6-8:30pmLive classical drawing and portraiture, inspired by the exhibitions, for the public with Rick Rodrigues from City College of San Francisco. Take your turn at drawing a live model. Sketch pads and pencils will be offered.
Artist Reception for Andy Diaz Hope + Laurel Roth | The Conflicts
Kimball Education Gallery
6-8:45pmCelebrate the fellowship of Diaz Hope and Roth, who have spent the past year completing their triptych of tapestries, The Conflicts. Light refreshments served.
Clash SF Treasure Hunt
Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden
6:15- 6:45pmTip-toe with CLASH SF through the tulips in the Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden for a treasure hunt using traditional maps and new tools for navigation. Youngsters will be delighted when they discover goodies celebrating spring scattered about the lawn. Don’t forget to find the delectable Ghirardelli chocolates (while supplies last).
Beach Blanket Babylon and Live Music with Mads Tolling
Wilsey Court
6:45-8:30pmFriday Nights kicks off the season with a special guest performer from the star-studded cast of Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon from 6:45–7pm, followed by the distinctive sounds of the Mads Tolling Quartet, which integrates the violin into the traditional jazz combo, from 7–8:30pm
Film Screening: “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (2003)
Koret Auditorium
7-8:30pmThis is the fictionalized account of how Dutch master painter Johannes Vermeer’s most famous work might have come to be, told from the point of view of Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a teenage girl who leaves her family’s care in the country to become a servant for the Vermeer household in the comparatively bustling, canal-laden burgh of Delft. She catches the eye of the taciturn, reclusive Vermeer (Colin Firth), and over a period of time, he begins to craft her portrait.
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Cost: FREE*
