Friday Nights At The De Young: Flights of Fancy & Imagination | SF
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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.
Every week, Friday Nights at the de Young offers art-making activities to encourage everyone of all ages to tap into their creativity.
“Nature Constructed”, by May Artist-in-Residence Tiffanie Turner
Kimball Education Gallery
6:00 pmMixed-Media Art-Making Station with Indira Urrutia
Buchanan Court
6:00 pmViVA MADRE TiERRA: Live music and performances by Carnaval San Francisco
Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden
6:30 pm
Carnaval San Francisco 2016 theme “ViVA MADRE TiERRA” celebrates Mother Earth’s prevalence in many cultures worldwide as the manifestation of the natural world. She is the life-giver and the sustainer of life: from womb she gave origin to all plants, animals, and people. On May 20, 2016 Carnaval San Francisco will celebrate the life of Oscar de la Renta with a live sneak preview of the the traditional costumes, music, songs created for the parade with a special focus on Oscar de la Renta’s homeland, the Dominican Republic.Third Annual Robert and Daphne Bransten Lecture: “Thoughts on the Globalization of Art” by Sarah Thornton
Koret Auditorium
7:15 pm
Sarah Thornton addresses some of the major trends affecting the art world and artists’ lives. Topics include the growth in global audiences and markets for contemporary art; the investment in artworks as a hedge against currency fluctuations; the effects of migration on artists’ careers; and the popular appeal of physical art objects at a time when much culture is being digitized into thin air.
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Cost: FREE*
