Please note: on 7/28, access to the de Young may be impacted due to the SF Marathon.
Open today 9:30 am – 5:15 pm
The artist on her love of San Francisco, how she communicates through art, and how painting never goes as planned (but that’s what makes it exciting).
By Shaquille Heath, writer
Taking a closer look at some of the animals in our artworks.
By Jack Dumbacher, curator of birds and mammals, California Academy of Sciences
Staying focused on sustainability.
By Christopher Dawe, associate director of facilities and operations
Stars are crossed, gender is performed, and sexuality is fluid in Bol’s The Crowning of Mirtillo.
By Isabella Lores-Chavez, associate curator, European paintings
How Japanese printmakers created texture, sparkle, and shine.
By Allison Brewer, Josephine Jenks, and Cyntia Karnes, paper conservators
An interview on the photographer and designer’s collaboration over 13 years and 250+ garments.
By Cawaii Factory, in conversation with Midori Kitamura, chairperson of the Miyake Design Studio and the Miyake Issey Foundation
Learn how traditional woodcuts were made and create your own.
By Josephine Jenks, paper conservation graduate intern
Meet one of the greatest women artists of the Italian Renaissance.
By Magnolia Molcan, senior web managing editor
Get to know paintings by American artists from Georgia O’Keeffe to William Merritt Chase.
Read (and hear) poems inspired by Nevelson's Sky Cathedral's Presence I.
By Ben Bernthal, poet
Read (and hear) a poem inspired by our Ibis coffin.
See how woodblock prints have evolved from the Edo period to today.