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Max Klinger, Legion of Honor
If you can’t get into the extremely popular Tut show at the De Young, don’t fret. There are other ways to satisfy your taste for Egyptian art, although none are as dazzling or spectacular.
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, architecturally inspired by the Temple of Amon at Karnak, houses the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts on exhibit in the western United States -- including objects from pre dynastic times through Egypt's early Islamic era. The website also hosts a very informative virtual tour, just the thing to bone up on before you launch yourself at the treasures of King Tutankhamen. http://www.egyptianmuseum.org
Lords of the Samurai at the Asian: http://www.asianart.org/
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: http://www.famsf.org/
Legion of Honor: Drawn from the collection of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Waking Dreams highlights the dream-like etchings of Max Klinger (1857–1920), the German Symbolist artist best known for his enigmatic portfolio Paraphrases About the Finding of a Glove (1881). In addition to his activities as a painter and sculptor, Klinger was one of the most imaginative graphic artists of the late 19th century. He was a technical virtuoso who had the ability to literally transcribe his innermost visions, the daydreams, fantasies and nightmares of his highly creative and profoundly romantic soul. Waking Dreams presents Klinger’s graphic oeuvre alongside visionary etchings, lithographs and woodcuts by his precursors and contemporaries. Included are macabre and fantastic prints by French artists Charles Méryon, Rodolphe Bresdin, and Odilon Redon; the Belgians Félicien Rops and James Ensor; and the Norwegian Edvard Munch.
San Frrancisco Museum of Modern Art – this is the last week for the Robert Frank show. The show featuring affinities between Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keefe is still up along with the Kerry Marshall mural in the atrium and an on-going small but exquisite show of Paul Klee in the permanent collection.
http://www.sfmoma.org/
The Contemporary Jewish Museum is showing “Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theatre (up till September 7, 2009). http://www.thecjm.org/
University Art Museum, Berkeley
Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet
Can art inspire conservation? Can conservation inspire art? Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet began six years ago in the form of these questions, triggering an unusual collaboration and an extraordinary and circuitous journey. BAM/PFA, in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and the international conservation organization Rare, commissioned eight of the world’s most thoughtful and innovative artists to travel to eight UNESCO-designated World Heritage sites and to create new works of art in response to their travels and experiences there. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
E-mail Nancy Ewart @ namastenancy@hotmail.com
Images and review of the Tutankhamen show up at my blog:
http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/
information from various museum websites
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