Submitted by the Event Organizer
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.
Kimball Education Gallery6:00 pmOpen Studio Hours
June 3–28, 2015
Wednesdays–Sundays, 1–5 pm, plus Friday Nights until 8:30 pmAmbient Soundscape 7–8 pm
Join musicians & sound artists Jennifer Hutson, Elise Youssoufian, Gregory Hagan, and Robert Usher as they create a peaceful soundscape for gallery visitors to wade in. Instruments include singing bowls, overtone singing, shruti box, tuning forks, and more.Buchanan Court6:00 pmEvery week, Friday Nights at the de Young offers art-making activities to encourage everyone of all ages to tap into their creativity.
This week’s art project focuses storytelling and documentation as it relates to Janet Delaney’s use of the photograph as a method of sharing the landscape of a city in transition. We will design and assemble San Francisco Field Guides that are meant to be taken out into the city and used as a tool for individual reflection, documentation, and understanding.
Wilsey Court6:30 pmDJ Lamont will be spinning music from the era of Janet Delaney’s photographs (1978–mid-1980s).
Piazzoni Murals Room6:30 pmGary Kamiya reads from his book Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. The reading is followed by a book-signing.
*This event has been switched from the 9th floor observation level to the Piazzoni Murals Room
Gallery 126:30 pmStories of San Francisco as told by individuals photographed in Janet Delaney’s work.
Schedule
6:30–7:00 pm
Gallery 128–8:30 pm
Gallery 12Koret Auditorium7:15 pmJanet Delaney in conversation with Seth Curcio about her exhibition Janet Delaney: South of Market and the photographic history of San Francisco.
Seth Curcio is an associate director at Pier 24 Photography. He is the founder of the online arts publication Daily Serving, and writes regularly about contemporary art and photography.
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