Friday Nights at the de Young: Avant-Garde Jazz | Golden Gate Park

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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.

Friday, August 30, 2013
Friday Nights at the de Young | Fall 2018

Friday Nights at the de Young Schedule | August 30, 2013

6-8:30 pm: August Artist-in-Residence: Peggy Gyulai: The Art of Painting Music: Allegro (ma non troppo)
Kimball Education Gallery

Peggy Gyulai’s work explores the connections between music and the expressive possibilities of paint on canvas. She approaches music as a subject, object, and inspiration, and, like Richard Diebenkorn, invokes the dynamic tension between abstraction and representation in order to create substance from the most ephemeral phenomena.

6:30-8:30 pm: Erik Jekabson: Live Music Celebrating the de Young’s Permanent Collection
Wilsey Court

This ensemble features Jekabson on trumpet, Michael Zilber on saxophone, Mads Tolling on violin, Charith Premawardhana on viola, John Wiitala on bass, and Smith Dobson on drums and vibraphone.

Erik Jekabson’s String-tet moves in many different musical directions, veering from jazz to classical, and from funk to avante-garde. Jekabson composes for the specific players in the ensemble and explores the different sounds and textures of their unique instrumentation. The String-tet’s latest CD Anti-Mass, comprises Jekabson’s compositions inspired by artwork in the de Young’s permanent collection.

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