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This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. [2]
Southern Exposure (SoEx) is a not-for-profit arts organization and alternative art space founded in 1974 in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. [2] [3] It was originally founded as a grassroots, cooperative art gallery in conjunction with Project Artaud which was a live/work artist community.
1990 - "Temporal Structures: Recent Paintings" - San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 1989 - "The Poetics of Light" paintings - Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA [ 6 ] 1988 - "Sundials & Arches, 1983-1988" - Plaza Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
Rosenthal pursued graduate studies in art history at Harvard University, obtaining a master's degree in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1976. [3] She taught art history at several institutions, including the University of California, Santa Cruz; Princeton University; and New York University. [2] [3]
In 2003, the City of San Francisco along with the Maybeck Foundation created a public-private partnership to restore the Palace and by 2010 work was done to restore and seismically retrofit the dome, rotunda, colonnades, and lagoon. Within January 2013, the Exploratorium closed in preparation for its permanent move to the Embarcadero.
Born in Manchester, Massachusetts, Kelham was educated at Harvard University and graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1896. [1] As an employee of New York architects Trowbridge & Livingston, he was sent by the firm to San Francisco for the Palace Hotel in 1906 and remained there after the building completion in 1909.
Bernard J. Rosenthal (August 9, 1914 – July 28, 2009), [1] also known as Tony Rosenthal, was an American abstract sculptor widely known for his monumental public art sculptures, created over seven decades.