There are galleries and museums to visit and a whole day's festival celebrating Israel in Yerba Buena Gardens. So, even though a massive storm is supposed to be on the way, we are art loving San Franciscians (right?) and we aren't going to let a few raindrops stop us. Just grab your umbrella, your gallery guide and enjoy!
Summer Gallery Walk 2011
Summer 2011 Yerba Buena Alliance Gallery Walk, tomorrow, June 4, 2011 from 1:00pm - 6:00pm.
Fifteen art galleries in the Yerba Buena Neighborhood, San Francisco’s most dynamic arts community, are joining forces to host the event. The Gallery Walk will feature free admission and refreshments, along with ample opportunities to experience art. The 15 participating galleries offer a diverse look at contemporary, emerging, and established artists working in a variety of mediums.
Participating Galleries include:
111 Minna Street Gallery
12 Gallagher Lane
871 Fine Arts
The Artists Alley
Frey Norris
Catharine Clark Gallery
Chandler Fine Art
Crown Point Press
Fivepoints Arthouse
Modernism
Baer Ridgway
Rayko Photo Center
SF Camerawork
UC Berkeley Extension Art and Design Center Gallery
Visual Aid
http://www.yerbabuena.org/site/c.cfLEJUOxHkE/b.3389537/k.83B4/Gallery_Walk.htm
At the Legion of Honor:
There are only a few more days to see the extraordinary costumes created by Isabella de Borchgrave and one of the original "copies" (from 1217) of the Magna Carta
The Bodleian charter on view at the Legion of Honor is one of the library’s three originals of the solemn reissue of November 1217. The opening line of the charter names the boy king Henry III, then just ten years old, who had succeeded John in October 1216. Power was held by his guardians, the papal legate Cardinal Guala Bicchieri and the Earl of Pembroke, William Marshal the elder. Although King Henry addresses his subjects at the start, the document carries his guardians’ seals at its foot. Henry was still too young to have a device of his own. The cardinal’s mark survives only as a defaced oval lump of white wax at left, but Marshal’s small round seal in green wax, showing the earl on horseback, survives at right to authenticate the document. The decision to issue a new version of the Magna Carta with his guardians’ seals was vital to securing the young king’s own position as well as the rights of his subjects.
Despite what many people expect, Magna Carta includes very few statements of legal principle. In fact, the majority of the 63 clauses in the charter deal with the detail of feudal rights and customs, and the administration of justice. It was King John’s excessive and arbitrary exploitation of his feudal rights, and his abuse of the justice system, which more than anything else had fuelled the barons’ rebellion in the first place. So it isn’t really surprising that the regulation of feudal rights and the justice system dominate the content of Magna Carta.
But it's still important today because the Magna Carta was the first grant by an English king to set detailed limits on royal authority. Through its statement of liberties, it sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power in arbitrary ways and it made clear that the king was subject to the law, not above it.
http://legionofhonor.famsf.org/
Israel in the Gardens at Yerba Buena (June 5th, 11 AM - 5 PM)
The largest, proudest celebration of Israeli culture in Northern California! There will be activities, displays and prizes, ethnic foods, culture and music for all ages and all tastes. Last year I ate my first "Kosher" taco there. I can hardly wait to see what's on offer this year.
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