San Francisco buzzes over new museum (de Young)

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 10/14/05 | Michael Kahn

[NormsRevenge]

Workmen finish up the landscaping outside the new M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, Tuesday Oct. 11, 2005. The new M.H. de Young Memorial Museum won't open to the public until this weekend, but for months critics have had a field day finding creative ways to deride the architectural design of San Francisco's fine arts showplace. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

[NormsRevenge]

Museum visitors at the main entrance of the deYoung Museum ponder 'Drawn Stone,' a site-specific commission by renowned British artist Andy Goldsworthy in San Francisco, Thursday Sept. 1, 2005. The new M.H. de Young Memorial museum won't open to the public until this weekend, but for months critics have been finding creative ways to deride the architectural design of San Francisco's latest cultural landmark. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

[Smokin' Joe]

$200 million cooper-clad museum near the Golden Gate bridge...

And here I was, looking for little cars as modern art...

Who proofreads this stuff?

[NormsRevenge]

de Young web site

http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/index.asp

[ByDesign]

"Unlike cities like Paris and New York, San Francisco has not paid attention enough to the great architectural accomplishments of its time," Frieden said. "This is the first great statement."

Ever hear of the GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, you freaking MORON? How the hell did you ever get hired if this is what you believe? You can probably SEE it from your office, you filthy hack!

This new museum is butt ugly. It looks like a prison.

Luckily, the collection it will house is good, but like the MOMA, it's embarrassing. They could'nt even hire local architects, they had to import this bleak looking box of a building!

[ncountylee]

The de Young will be the newest and chicest homeless magnet.

[William Tell]

I remember Golden Gate Park. Last time my wife and I visited the toilets in the restrooms were clogged to unuseability and the first bench we passed was inhabited by a delirious drug user mumbling to himself. Maybe they've cleaned it up for the weekend.

[writer33]

Any Steve Young memorabilia there?

[NormsRevenge]

Beats me.

His old Toyota maybe. ;-)

[writer33]

:)

[Prost1]

Before the anti-everthing bashers get here....

I went to the old De Young many, many times. The 1st was when I was around 10 years with my folks. The 2nd was when I bought a bus ticket, made the transfers and got home home before I was missed, at age 12! From Hayward to SF and back! (Over 40 years ago. It was a 1 1/2 hour bus ride to SF and another 45 minutes to Golden Gate, if the connections were on time.)

A museum of the De Young rank can easily become the cultural center of a city, something SF has been missing. The Chinese collection, the Medieval Arts and Armour, the tapestries...plus the works that come on loan.

I have not had a reason to visit SF for many years, but
DeYoung...now I have a reason.

Whatever became of Steinhart - the aquarium masterpiece?

[martin_fierro]

FRISCO: City of great "art"

[NormsRevenge]

The steinhart is still there. I have never been there or to the old de Young. I want to go to the Legion of Honor sometime.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

The building's copper skin mimics filtered light through a canopy of trees to create an abstract pattern that will turn to green over time due to exposure to the sun, rain and fog...

Hey numbnuts! It's called oxidation!

[Prost1]

But I do not know if they are open. Monterey is expensive and overrated. Steinhart was a gem.

The Legion of Honor is a wonderful park, but the buildings are just big empty buildings, sometimes filled with wonderous art.

The outside is gorgeous, the inside, is well, inside...
empty unless there is something on display.

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, geeeez, the homeless have a right to fine art too, dontcha know?

/sarc

[yankeedame]

This new museum is butt ugly. It looks like a prison.

And let's not forget "...with critics hailing it as a 'museum for the 21st century'.... The kiss of death right there.

After all,

1) there's nothing that gets so old, so fast as something "designed for the 21st century". Remember that millennium "designed for the 21st century" monstrosity in London?

2) when was the last time the great unwashed (a.k.a. general public) ever liked something the critics considered just too, too marvelous-for-words-,darling?

[Disambiguator]

That looks like a prison yard, with the guard tower in the background.

[cgbg]

From the Great Pyramid to this--dosen't sound like evolution is working very well. :-)