Note: the Legion of Honor is opening at 10:30 am on 6/11, due to the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon.
Open Tuesday – Sunday 9:30 am – 5:15 pm
Compare Ansel Adams’s images with contemporary photographs of the same sights.
By Magnolia Molcan
How do you solve a conservation puzzle? Create your own key.
By Antonia Smith
Listen to a playlist of John Singer Sargent’s favorite flamenco songs.
How this rhythmic art form inspired some of Sargent’s greatest works.
By Emma Acker
Take an ASL tour of Frank Stella’s Lettre sur les aveugles II.
Take an ASL tour of Ruth Asawa’s sculpture installation.
Take an ASL tour of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Petunias.
An unflinchingly honest “body” of work.
By Lauren Palmor
See artworks by Bay Area artists, and submit your own.
Gothic cathedrals, guns, and the details that matter.
By Al Farrow, Jane Williams, and Céline Chrétien
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.
Learn about artworks in FAMSF’s collections by self-taught Black artists born in the South, and the Museums’ effort to curate with a conscience.
By Timothy Anglin Burgard