Legion Calendar http://rodin.famsf.org/legion/calendar/day.asp New Legion Events en-us Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST webmaster@famsf.org webmaster@famsf.org <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Highlights of the European Collection]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <em>Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine</em>]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Fit for a King — European Decorative Arts]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Three Masterpieces in Thirty Mintues]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Ceramics through the Ages]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <em>The Path to Picasso: European Sculpture at the Legion of Honor</em>]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <em>Cartier and America</em>]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <em>Cartier and America</em>]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Textile Arts Council Lecture: Bast Fibers of Japan: From Tafu to Jofu]]>
Melissa Rinne, Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the Asian Art Museum. Fibers long relegated in the West to industrial and utilitarian use have an ancient and much more elegant tradition in Japan.]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion]]>
The Legion of Honor invites you to a special series of programs in celebration of newly reinstalled Bowles Porcelain Gallery.

GALLERY 11
noon–3:00 p.m.
Porcelain demonstration in partnership with the Crucible, featuring ceramics artist Tachina Rudman-Young
Clay: Hand-thrown slabs, texture and draping. As an art material, clay is sensual, flexible, and resilient. With its amazing ability to stretch, bend, and accept texture, it is an ideal medium for creating sculpture; once fired it can last for thousands of years. Within the last century, the field of ceramics has outgrown its traditional role as “functional pottery” to include ceramic sculpture as an accepted form of fine art. As a counterpoint to the Bowles porcelain collection, local ceramics artist and instructor at the Crucible Tachina Rudman-Young will demonstrate clay’s amazing ability to pick-up texture and accept various forms and shapes. This fun hand-building demonstration includes gentle breath and simple throwing gestures. Tachina will also demonstrate the use of porcelain slip and under-glazes as natural and appealing colorants for sculpture.
www.openyourheartart.com

BOWLES PORCELAIN GALLERY
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Curatorial walkthrough with Maria Santangelo, Special Project Curator, European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

For other La Belle Vie programs celebrating Cartier and America and the permanent collection at the Legion of Honor, click here. La Belle Vie includes: 
  • Chamber music on the 1st and 3rd Sundays, noon–2 p.m., in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution (March 7 and 21, April 4 and 18, May 2 and 16, June 6 and 20)
  • Organ concerts on Saturdays and Sundays, 4–5 p.m.
  • Docent tour of the Bowles Porcelain Gallery on Saturday, April 10, and Sundays, May 16 and June 27,at 1 p.m.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Doing and Viewing & Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Very Postmortem:  Mummies and Medicine

Family tour for children aged 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Projects relate to the special exhibition Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
The Legion of Honor's Skinner organ is the world's only indoor/outdoor organ. View extraordinary art as you listen to a free concert.

John Karl Hirten plays Purcell, Bach, Dvorak, Rodgers, Fletcher]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion, featuring Revolution Quartet]]>
noon–2:00 p.m.
Revolution Quartet. Live chamber music in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution takes place on the first and third Sunday of each month from February through June. 

4:00 p.m.
Organ Concert: John Karl Hirten plays Purcell, Bach, Dvorak, Rodgers, and Fletcher on the Legion's Skinner Organ.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: <em>Cartier and America</em>]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: <em>Cartier and America</em>]]>
Docent Lecturer: Ellen Harden]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Ancient Art Council Lecture: Lod Mosaic]]>

Helen Diller Family Annual Lecture Series: Archaeological Discoveries in Israel

An introduction to the late Roman Lod Mosaic, the largest mosaic floor ever discovered in Israel, with Jacques Neguer, Head of Art Conservation, Israel Antiquities Authority; with Renee Dreyfus, Curator in Charge of Ancient Art and Interpretation at the FAMSF; and a discussion of mosaic conservation and onsite preservation work at archaeological excavations by Elisabeth Cornu, Head Objects Conservator at the FAMSF.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Art History Lecture: "The Merriam Collection at the de Young"*]]>

Lecturer: Michel Quenon


*This lecture will be at the Legion of Honor in the Florence Gould Theater

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion]]>
In celebration of Cartier and America, the Legion of Honor invites you to a special program evoking the glitz and enchantment of Cartier jewels and their role in American history and culture.

FLORENCE GOULD THEATER
11:00 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Film screening: The Sheik. This silent film stars Rudolph Valentino, sporting a Cartier Tank watch, as a charming Arabian sheik who becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking English socialite and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert. (1921, 80 minutes)

COURT OF HONOR AND FRONT LAWN (Outside the museum)
1:00 p.m.
Families are invited for a scenic Easter egg hunt for children. The eggs will contain sparkly items and treats in celebration of spring. 

2:00–3:30 p.m.
After the hunt, join the Doing and Viewing program in Gallery 10, an art program that includes a tour of the galleries followed by a studio workshop taught by professional artist-teachers. Click here for more information.

GALLERY 10
4:00 p.m.
Organ pops concert by Keith Thompson, including Broadway favorites, programmatic works, and highlights from organ literature.

HERBST SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERIES
11:00–11:50 a.m. and 1:30–2:20 p.m.
Docent tour of Cartier and America. Meet at the exhibition entrance. 
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Doing and Viewing & Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Medieval and Renaissance Art

Family tour for children aged 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Projects relate to the permanent collection of Medieval and Renaissance art.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
The Legion of Honor's Skinner organ is the world's onle indoor/outdoor organ. View extraordinary art as you listen to a free concert.

Keith Thompson presents an organ pops concert, including Broadway favorites, programmatic works, and highlights from organ literature.]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Art History Films: "Private Life of a Masterpiece: Impressionism (Renoir); Impressionist Painting, 1850–1900"]]>
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
The Legion of Honor's Skinner organ is the world's onle indoor/outdoor organ. View extraordinary art as you listen to a free concert.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion, featuring the Bridge Chamber Virtuoso]]>
noon–2:00 p.m.
Bridge Chamber VIrtuoso featuring Wei He, violin; Yun-Jie Liu, viola; and Amos Yang, cello. Live chamber music in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution. This program takes place on the first and third Sunday of each month from February through June. 

4:00–5:00 p.m.
Organ Concert on the Legion of Honor's Skinner organ, the world's only indoor/outdoor organ.



]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "California Palace of the Legion of Honor: The Rest of the Story"]]>
Docent Lecturer: Rita Dunlay]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion]]>
In celebration of Cartier and America and the reinstallation of the Bowles Gallery of 18th-Century English and French Porcelain, the Legion of Honor invites you to a special program evoking the glitz and enchantment of Cartier jewels and ceramics, and their roles in American history and culture. 

GALLERY 10
noon–2:00 p.m.
Live music by the Spirit of '29. For nearly three decades, the Spirit of '29 has been pleasing audiences with its hot brand of exuberant Dixieland Jazz. www.spiritof29.com

2:00–3:30 p.m.
Doing and Viewing Art. Tour of Cartier and America, followed by studio workshop taught by professional artist-teachers. For children aged 7-12. For more information, click here.

4:00–5:00 p.m.
Organ Concert

FLORENCE GOULD THEATER
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Special Lecture by Jan Wahl, "From Diamonds to Desire: Jewelry in the Movies," www.janwahl.com

3:30-4:30 p.m.
Lecture by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, "Old and New: European Porcelain on Display in the Palace of the Legion of Honor." The year 2010 is a Jubilee year for the European porcelain industry, in honor of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Meissen manufactory near Dresden, Germany. It is a happy coincidence that the European ceramics in the Museums' permanent collection were reinstalled this year. Highlights of the collection are the basis for a lecture on tastes and trends in 18th-century Continental porcelain.
 
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger is on the faculty of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum/Parsons The New School MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design. Curator of back-to-back Meissen exhibitions in 2007–2008 at Bard Graduate Center and The Frick Collection, she was editor and co-author of the catalogues Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, ca. 1710–63 and The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710–50. She lectures extensively on subjects relating to Dresden court culture and is currently preparing a book
on the Grand Tour of the Saxon crown prince Friedrich Christian to Italy in 1738–1740.

HERBST SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERIES
11:00–11:50 a.m. and 1:30–2:20 p.m.
Docent tour of Cartier and America. Meet at the exhibition entrance. 

PORCELAIN GALLERY
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Docent tour of the newly reinstalled porcelain gallery. Don't miss one of the three offerings of this special docent tour: April 10, May 16, and June 27. 
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
The Legion of Honor's Skinner organ is the world's only indoor/outdoor organ. View extraordinary art as you listen to a free concert.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
The Legion of Honor's Skinner organ is the world's only indoor/outdoor organ. View extraordinary art as you listen to a free concert.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion, featuring Revolution Quartet]]>
noon–2:00 p.m.
Revolution Quartet. Live chamber music in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution. This program takes place on the first and third Sunday of each month from February through June. 

4:00–5:00 p.m.
Organ Concert on the Legion of Honor's Skinner organ, the world's only indoor/outdoor organ.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
The Legion of Honor's Skinner organ is the world's onle indoor/outdoor organ. View extraordinary art as you listen to a free concert.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Ancient Council Lecture: "The Return of the Mummy: VERY Postmortem"]]>
After 65 years on loan to the Haggin Museum, Stockton, the mummy of Irethorrou and the fly-through generated from CT scans of his mummy is now the featured attraction in the exhibition VERY Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine.

Lecture by Renée Dreyfus, Curator of Ancient Art and Interpretation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Member Appreciation Days]]>

Members may enjoy a double discount on regularly-priced items at both Museum Stores, a $12 members-only lunch special at both museum cafés and complimentary coffee, tea, and sweets
from 1-3 pm in the de Young's Piazzoni Murals Room. Proof of membership required.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Member Appreciation Days]]>
Members may enjoy a double discount on regularly-priced items at both Museum Stores, a $12 members-only lunch special at both museum cafés and complimentary coffee, tea, and sweets
from 1-3 pm in the de Young's Piazzoni Murals Room. Proof of membership required.]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Organ Concert]]>
The Legion of Honor's Skinner organ is the world's only indoor/outdoor organ. View extraordinary art as you listen to a free concert.]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion, featuring Picasso Quartet]]>
Live music in celebration of Cartier and America

noon–2:00 p.m.
Picasso Quartet, featuring Alisa Rose, violin; Natasha Makhijani, violin; Alexa Beattie, viola; and Michelle Kwon, cello. Live chamber music in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution. This program takes place on the first and third Sunday of each month from February through June. 

4:00–5:00 p.m.
Organ Concert on the Legion of Honor's Skinner organ, the world's only indoor/outdoor organ.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Art History Lecture: "Portraits Across Time from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era: Portraits at the Legion of Honor"]]>
Lecturer: Richard Mann, Professor of Art History, San Francisco State University]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Art History Lecture: "Birth of Impressionism: A Preview"]]>
Lecturer: Lynn Federle Orr, PhD, Curator of European Art, FAMSF]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Ancient Art Lecture: "Achilles and the Vase Painters"]]>
This lecture examines the relationship of the Achilles Vase in the museum's collection to the Iliad and other sagas of the Trojan War and is part of The Eye of the Painter: Ancient Greek Pottery project, sponsored by the Elios Charitable Foundation.

Lecture by Dr. David Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion, featuring Revolution Quartet]]>
noon–2:00 p.m.
Revolution Quartet. Live chamber music in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution. This program will take place on the first and third Sunday of each month from February through June. 

4:00–5:00 p.m.
Organ Concert on the Legion of Honor's Skinner organ, the world's only indoor/outdoor organ.
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GALLERY 10 (RODIN GALLERY)
noon–2:00 p.m.
Live music by the Revolution Quartet. Live chamber music in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution. This program will take place on the first and third Sunday of each month from February through June. 

GALLERY 11
noon–3:00 p.m.
Artist demonstration. Hand-thrown slabs, texture, and draping by Tachina Rudman-Young in partnership with Porcelain demonstration in partnership with the Crucible, featuring ceramics artist Tachina Rudman-Young. As an art material, clay is sensual, flexible, and resilient. With its amazing ability to stretch, bend, and accept texture, it is an ideal medium for creating sculpture; once fired it can last for thousands of years. Within the last century, the field of ceramics has outgrown its traditional role as “functional pottery” to include ceramic sculpture as an accepted form of fine art. As a counterpoint to the Bowles porcelain collection, local ceramics artist and instructor at the Crucible Tachina Rudman-Young will demonstrate clay’s amazing ability to pick-up texture and accept various forms and shapes. This fun hand-building demonstration includes gentle breath and simple throwing gestures. Tachina will also demonstrate the use of porcelain slip and underglazes as natural and appealing colorants for sculpture.

PORCELAIN GALLERY
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Docent tour of the newly reinstalled galleries. Don't miss one of the three offerings of this special docent tour (April 10, May 16, and June 27).

FLORENCE GOULD THEATER
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Movie screening to evoke the age of tea parties.

4:00-4:45 p.m.
Organ concert on the Legion of Honor's Skinner organ, the world's only indoor/outdoor organ.]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Art History Lecture: "Paris, City of Light"]]>
Lecturer: Jim Ganz, Curator, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, FAMSF]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Performance Artist Sha Sha Higby: Threads of Culture Weaving Through the Artist]]>
The Textile Arts Council presents well-known Bay Area performance artist Sha Sha Higby, who incorporates sculptural costumes and masks into her explorations of dance and movement. Ms. Higby will discuss the creation of her ephemeral body sculptures.]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: <em>Birth of Impressionism </em>]]>
Docent Lecturer: Ellen Harden]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Crown Point Press: Going toward Fifty Years"]]>
Docent Lecturer: Peggy Gordon]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "How Masterpieces Are Made"]]>
Docent Lecturer: Gretchen Turner]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion, featuring Les Graces]]>
noon–2:00 p.m.
Les Graces, featuring Rebekah Ahrendt, viola da gamba; Annette Bauer, recorders; Jennifer Paulino, soprano; and Jonathan Rhodes Lee, harpsichord. Live chamber music in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution. This program takes place on the first and third Sunday of each month from February through June. www.lesgraces.com

4:00–5:00 p.m.
Organ Concert on the Legion of Honor's Skinner organ, the world's only indoor/outdoor organ.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion, featuring Revolution Quartet]]>
noon–2:00 p.m.
Revolution Quartet. Live chamber music in partnership with San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and Classical Revolution. This program will take place on the first and third Sunday of each month from February through June. 

4:00–5:00 p.m.
Organ Concert on the Legion of Honor's Skinner organ, the world's only indoor/outdoor organ.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion celebrates <em>Impressionist Paris</em>]]>
Florence Gould Theater
2:00–2:45 p.m.
Lecture by Jim Ganz, "The Elephant and the Eiffel Tower." Ganz will discuss the museum's newly acquired sepia print, Éléphantaisie, by Pierre Dubreuil, and the special exhibition where it is on view, Impressionist Paris: City of Light. Ganz is Curator for the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts and curator of the special exhibition.

Gallery 11 
noon–3:00 p.m.
Artist demonstration (tbd).
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST <![CDATA[La Belle Vie at the Legion]]>
Programs inspired by the Bowles Porcelain Collection.

GALLERY 11
noon–3:00 p.m.
Artist demonstration. Hand-thrown slabs, texture, and draping by Tachina Rudman-Young in partnership with the Crucible. As an art material, clay is sensual, flexible, and resilient. With its amazing ability to stretch, bend, and accept texture, it is an ideal medium for creating sculpture; once fired it can last for thousands of years. Within the last century, the field of ceramics has outgrown its traditional role of "functional pottery" to include ceramic sculpture as an accepted form of fine art. As a counterpoint to the Bowles Porcelain Collection, local ceramic artist and instructor instructor at the Crucible Tachina Rudman-Young will demonstrate clay's amazing ability to pick up texture and accept various forms and shapes. In a fun hand-building demonstration that includes gentle breath and simple throwing gestures, Tachina will also demonstrate the use of porcelain slip and underglaze as natural and appealing colorants for sculpture. 

PORCELAIN GALLERY
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Docent tour of the newly reinstalled galleries. This is the last of the three offerings of this special docent tour (also on April 10 and May 16).

FLORENCE GOULD THEATER
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Lecture by Letitia Roberts on English porcelain, including pieces from the Bowles Collection.

GALLERY 10
4:00–4:45 p.m.
Organ concert on the Legion of Honor's Skinner organ, the world's only indoor/outdoor organ.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35 PST