Last night I went with a friend to the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. The DeYoung is open late on Friday evenings and the tickets are 1/2 off. My friend, L, works for the UC Berkeley Anthropology Museum, and has a magical card that when presented to people makes them go "Wow!" and let you into places for free. (Note to self: Score one of those cards.)
It's a very Happening Place at the DeYoung on Friday nights. Live music, wine/beer/margarinis (a margarita and martini mixture? I'm still not curious enough to try it.), people, people, and people!
L and I were standing in the wine line. I wanted to snap a picture of the line-standing crowd and the dancing-crowd just a few feet away. Before drinks: calm, non-moving people. After drinks: people shaking their booty. IN A MUSEUM! It was very surreal, and fitting I suppose for the scene to be in a museum.
Museums are important comunity institutions. What better place than to express (celebrate) our human selves than the very place we go to appreciate (celebrate) human expression?
Not to miss: The Quilts of Gee's Bend. Stunning.
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I originally published this post with an error. I called wrote "Gentry" instead of "Gee's Bend." What an odd error. Hm.
2 comments:
I've got one of those too.
Ooo... That one is nice. Did you catch the exhibit?
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