Monday, July 6, 2009

Podcast: FAMSF Curator of Ancient Art Renee Dreyfus Talks About Tut in '79 and Now

Our newest podcast features FAMSF curator of ancient art and interpretation Renee Dreyfus, who talks about the 1979 Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition and the current Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. Renee was on the curatorial team for the first Tut exhibition 30 years ago, and now heads up the FAMSF curatorial efforts for the current offering.

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Posted by: Andrew Fox | July 6 at 10:45:45 AM
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

New King Tut Website Launches!

We recently launched a new website for our upcoming exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, which opens at the de Young on June 27. Check it out at www.tutsanfrancisco.org.

The website was designed and constructed in-house using the open-source Drupal platform. On it you can order tickets for FAMSF members and groups (general public tickets on sale in April 6), preview a selection of the artifacts on view in the exhibition, and send a King Tut e-card.

We'll be rolling out more content, including background information on ancient Egypt and a look back at the 1979 Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition at the de Young in the weeks to come.

Posted by: Andrew Fox | February 25 at 5:22:07 PM
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Tweeting with the Museums

The next, or more correctly, the current Big Thing among museums is utilizing Twitter as a communications and community-building tool. In case you've never heard of it, Twitter is a free online service that allows users to "tweet" or "microblog", that is, send short text messages that other Twitter users can follow online or via a mobile phone. You can visit our Twitter stream at www.twitter.com/deyoungmuseum.

A number of other prominent museums and cultural institutions also use Twitter, including the California Academy of Sciences, the Getty, the Museum of Modern Art, the Asian Art Museum, the SF Zoo, and more. We're following many of them, and you can click through to their Twitter streams from the de Young's profile linked above.

We originally conceived our Twitter stream as a tool for communicating real-time visitor services information during the upcoming King Tut exhibition (opening June 29), but started playing around with it in the meantime, and we're finding it fun, useful, and pretty addictive.

Posted by: Andrew Fox | January 14 at 11:30:39 AM
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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Watch FAMSF Symposia and Lectures Online with FORA.tv

If you've ever missed a museum symposium or panel discussion that you longed to attend, then you'll be happy to learn that the de Young Museum is working with FORA.tv to record and make available selected special events and presentations online.

FORA.tv is an online resource that offers a rich variety of video content on current affairs, politics, business, arts, and culture. Video content is delivered through their Flash-based FORA player, so it's viewable across all browsers and platforms.

The de Young has posted three events online with FORA.tv: artist Maya Lin's lecture in about the exhibition Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes, the Asian/American/Modern Artists and Scholars Panel, and the symposium Yves Saint Laurent: Eternal Style.

Posted by: Andrew Fox | December 4 at 10:36:05 AM
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Monday, November 24, 2008

New Podcast: Tim Simon

We've posted a new podcast episode, this time featuring Tim Simon, descendant of James Simon and San Francisco resident, discussing the legacy and history of the Simon family and the exhibition The State Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon.

This podcast provides a fascinating look at the man and the family behind the philanthropy responsible for many of the treasures in the collections of Berlin's state museums, as well as shedding light on the local connection responsible for its exclusive showing here in San Francisco at the Legion of Honor.

You can grab two different versions: MPEG4 (enhanced with a images) and MP3.

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The State Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon runs at the Legion through January 18, 2009.

Posted by: Andrew Fox | November 24 at 1:48:35 PM
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