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Kevin Cyr: <EM>Allen</EM> Oil on Panel, 36" x 60"Photo courtesy of White Walls Gallery
Kevin Cyr: Allen
Oil on Panel, 36" x 60"
Photo courtesy of White Walls Gallery
Temporal Surfaces : New Works by Kevin Cyr and Jessica Hess
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES  •  White Walls Gallery  •  6 - 27 March 2010
 
 
Guest-curated by Lainya Magaña and featuring the work of Kevin Cyr and Jessica Hess, Temporal Surfaces points to the relationship between space and time by uniting the individual perspectives of two artists separately exploring decay and abandonment in urban environments. The result is a body of work documenting the transitory nature of the contemporary urban American landscape, lauding these decrepit, graffiti laden, and often overlooked scenes as reverential places of beauty.

White Walls Gallery Website


Contact: White Walls Gallery
835 Larkin Street
San Francisco, California 94109
Tel: (1) 415 931 15 00

Luc Tuymans
SAN FRANCISCO , UNITED STATES  •  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)  •  6 February - 2 May 2010
 

Luc Tuymans features approximately 75 key paintings from 1978 to the present and reunites works from important series as initially set out by the artist. Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is considered by many to be one of the most significant painters working today, and his distinctive visual style and approach to issues of history and memory have influenced an entire generation of younger artists. Interested in the aftereffects of some of the most traumatic events of the last and present century and their representation in the mass media, Tuymans uses a muted palette to create paintings.

Born and raised in Antwerp, where he continues to live and work, Tuymans draws on the historical traditions of Northern European painting as well as photography, cinema, and television. He appropriates images from a variety of sources and makes use of cropping, close-ups, framing, and sequencing to offer fresh perspectives on the medium of painting as well as larger cultural issues.

Perhaps best-known for his early work on the Holocaust, the artist has turned more recently to such topics as the postcolonial history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the dramatic turn of world events after 9/11, and the role of institutional religion in an increasingly secular world.



San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Website


Contact: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3159
Tel: (1) 415 357 40 00

Cartier and America
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES  •  The Legion of Honor  •  19 December 2009 - 9 May 2010
 
Cartier and America covers the history of the House of Cartier from its first, great successes as the “king of jewelers and jeweler to kings” during the Belle Epoque through to the 1960s and 1970s, when Cartier supplied celebrities and royalty of the day with their jewels and luxury accessories. Derived mainly from the private Cartier Collection, the spectacular array of more than 200 objects includes jewelry of the Gilded Age and Art Deco periods, as well as freestanding works of art such as the famous Mystery Clocks. With an extensive variety of jewelry forms—ranging from traditional white diamond suites to the highly colored exotic creations of the 1920s and 1930s—Cartier made its mark with the ingenuity of its designs and its exquisite craftsmanship. The exhibition is exclusive to the Legion of Honor.


The Legion of Honor Website


Contact: The Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park
34th Avenue and Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94121
Tel: (1) 415 750 36 00

Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES  •  The Legion of Honor  •  31 October 2009 - 15 August 2010
 
Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine explores the modern scientific examination of mummies, providing new insights into the conditions under which the Egyptians lived and bringing us closer to understanding who they were. Very Postmortem is a homecoming celebration marking the return of Irethorrou, FAMSF’s mummy that has been on loan since 1944. As part of the exhibition, a CT-scan of the Irethorrou mummy taken by scientists at Stanford Medical School sheds light on his possible cause of death and physical attributes. These scans provide depth and scientific background to the exhibition. Accompanying the mummy are a variety of ancient artifacts that date from approximately 664–525 B.C., Egypt’s final era of greatness during the Late Period from the 26th Saite Dynasty.


The Legion of Honor Website


Contact: The Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park
34th Avenue and Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94121
Tel: (1) 415 750 36 00

Coffin of Tutankhamun’s viscerafrom the tomb of TutankhamunEgyptian museum in Cairo© Photo: Andreas F. Voegelin, Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig,Supreme Council of Antiquities Cairo
Coffin of Tutankhamun's viscera
from the tomb of Tutankhamun
Egyptian museum in Cairo
© Photo: Andreas F. Voegelin, Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig,
Supreme Council of Antiquities Cairo
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES  •  de Young Museum  •  27 June 2009 - 28 March 2010
 

The exhibition includes 50 major artifacts excavated from the tomb of King Tut, including his royal diadem (the gold crown discovered on his head), as well as one of the gold and precious stone inlaid coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs. More than 70 objects from other royal graves of the 18th Dynasty (1555 B.C.-1305 B.C.) are on view as well.

A further highlight is the loaned collection of pieces from the intact tomb of Yuya and Tuyu, the parents-in-law of Amenophis III. This tomb was discovered some 20 years before that of Tutankhamun, and had until then been the most celebrated find in the Valley of the Kings.

The objects are accompanied by photos of Howard Carter taken in 1922 to illustrate the condition of the tomb during the first opening.



de Young Museum Website


King Tut's Final Secrets: What did he really look like?

Contact: de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco
Tel: (1) 415 863 33 30

Events in Jazz

Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau Trio
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES  •  Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant  •  1 - 4 April 2010
 
His first record for Nonesuch, Brad Mehldau Live in Tokyo, was released in September 2004. After ten years with Jorge Rossy playing in Mehldau’s regular trio, drummer Jeff Ballard joined the band in 2005. The label released its first album from the Brad Mehldau Trio—Day is Done—on September 27, 2005. A double live trio recording entitled Brad Mehldau Trio Live was  released on March 25th, 2008 (Nonesuch). Early 2009 found Mehldau and producer Jon Brion collaborating in the recording studio once again for the highly anticipated follow-up to Largo, a collaborative effort with the musician and producer Jon Brion, and Anything Goes—a trio outing with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy.



Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm & 10 pm

Contact: 510 Embarcadero West
Oakland, CA 94607
Tel: (1) 510 238 92 00

Natalie Cole: Still Unforgettable
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA , UNITED STATES  •  Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant  •  26 - 28 March 2010
 
When Natalie Cole’s seminal Unforgettable…With Love came out in 1991, the jazz collection set a new standard for reinventing the Great American Songbook.  The CD, which captured six Grammys®, including Album and Record Of The Year, spent five weeks at No. 1 and sold more than eight million copies in the U.S. alone.

Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant Website



Detailed schedule information:
Fri-Sat 8pm & 10pm
Sun 7pm & 9pm

Contact: 510 Embarcadero West
Oakland, CA 94607
Tel: (1) 510 238 92 00

Joe Lovano and US Five
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES  •  Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant  •  23 - 24 March 2010
 
With Folk Art, his 21st recording for Blue Note, Joe Lovano debuts Us Five. Recorded in November after a preparatory week at New York’s famed Village Vanguard, Lovano presents a collection of nine original compositions for himself on tenor saxophone, straight alto saxophone, alto clarinet, tarogato, aulochrome, and percussion; James Weidman on piano; Esperanza Spalding on bass; and Otis Brown III and Francisco Mela on—as Lovano likes to put it—drums and cymbals. He explores a wide spectrum of “colors, sounds, and feelings,” organizing the flow into passages for quintet, quartets, trios, duos, and solos within the unit, exploiting to the fullest the various rhythm section possibilities afforded by the two-drummer format.

Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm & 10 pm

Contact: 510 Embarcadero West
Oakland, CA 94607
Tel: (1) 510 238 92 00



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