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How Do You Recycle a 15,000 Lb. Sand Painting?
Staying focused on sustainability.
By Christopher Dawe, associate director of facilities and operations
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Same Sight, Different Views: Revisiting Ansel Adams’s Landscapes
Compare Ansel Adams’s images with contemporary photographs of the same sights.
By Magnolia Molcan
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Ansel Adams + Richard Misrach: Exploring Legacies
This short film examines the impact of Ansel Adams’s photography in the Bay Area and beyond.
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Weaving Connections: Carpet Art, Community + Environment
How women carpet artists are envisioning new ecological futures.
By Minoo Moallem
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Pele, Imperialism, and the Sublime: Tavernier’s Volcano Paintings
Examining the power and purpose of the volcano image.
By Healoha Johnston
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Considering Robert Bechtle’s “Sunset Intersection”
Learn about Robert Bechtle’s Sunset Intersection and how Bechtle's Outer Sunset compares to the present day neighborhood.
By Karin Breuer
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Bierstadt to Birk: California Landscape Ideals Versus Realities
Given the striking visual similarity of Fog over San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California to nineteenth-century American landscapes, viewers may be surprised to learn that the painting was created in the twenty-first century.
By Emma Acker
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Views of Naples: Thematic Decoration of an Eighteenth Century Porcelain Dinner Service
Read about four porcelain pieces in the Museums’ collection that exemplify the imaginatively themed porcelain services produced during the eighteenth century and that offer little windows onto the Bay of Naples.
By Thomas Wu
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Grandeur and Serenity: Mallinson’s “National Parks” Textile Series
Learn about the ecological inspirations behind the textile “Paradise Valley, Mount Rainer.”
By Laura L. Camerlengo, in conversation with Madelyn Shaw and Michael Fehr
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Shaping the Land: Wayne Thiebaud’s Ponds and Streams
Thiebaud’s Ponds and Streams offers a disorienting, aerial view of a patchwork of intensely cultivated fields and bending waterways spread across farmland in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.
By Lauren Palmor
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The Necessity of Resourcefulness: Lessons from Traditional Japanese Textiles
This rag merchant’s bag offers a window into Japanese history that can teach us valuable lessons about sustainability today.
By Ana Matsubara with Jill D’Alessandro
