Back to the de Young (Almost Inside)
Back in October, when it opened, I saw the outside of San Francisco’s newest museum, the de Young in Golden Gate Park.
I kept meaning to go back and go inside. So today, a slow, dreary day in which the empty streets gave the effect of an abandoned town, we tried again.
But the line was still unmanageable. So I decided to take some photos of the sculpture garden. It wasn’t a totally useless trip.
Here are the highlights (click images to view larger):
The Oldenburg/van Bruggen giant safety pin
Barbara (Jocelyn) Hepworth’s Pierced Monolith with Colour
Gustav Kraitz’s Apples
Juan Muñoz’s beautiful and strange Conversation Piece V
And my favorite, Minuteman, by Robert Arneson
Maybe the planners of the museum knew it would be a hit, and that people like me would be showing up months after the opening lacking the stamina to wait in line. The sculpture garden, even on a wintry day like today, is a nice (and free) alternative.
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December 29th, 2005 at 9:11 pm
Um, I think the Oldenburg is a *safety* clip? Sorry! I know, moted. Love you!
December 29th, 2005 at 9:51 pm
Kind editor! Where were you when I was writing this?
Signed, Your humble error-plagued writer
PS correction in the pipe
December 29th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
Ha! I like how I still called it a clip, though. Leave it to me to correct you with a still-incorrect terminology.
March 19th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
[...] The models are gorgeous, and the actual building doesn’t disappoint, with a mostly glass skin covering a concrete and steel skeleton. The panes are placed at very odd and attractive angles that draw your eyes all over the place. Kind of dizzying, in fact. Kind of like our federal government. In a couple of past posts, I’ve extolled the architectural virtues of another new building in SF—the de Young museum. For me, this new building rivals the de Young in its risky, edgy “behavior.” In fact, I like using that word to describe this new movement in architecture—building with attitude. Haha… [...]