Please note: the de Young and Legion of Honor will be open on Juneteenth, 6/19.
Open today 9:30 am – 5:15 pm
Listen to a playlist of John Singer Sargent’s favorite flamenco songs.
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.
By Emma Acker
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
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.
The subject of power is all around us.
By devorah major
This portrait illustrates how elite families telegraphed status and power through their children.
