Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Pull out a pen and paper because it's time to announce our 2025 exhibition lineup. Mark your calendars now... it's going to be fantastic year of programming 📆 | de Young | "Matisse’s Jazz Unbound," Jan 25 – Jul 6, 2025 "Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm," Mar 1 – Jul 6, 2025 "Isaac Julien: I Dream a World," Apr 12 – Jul 13, 2025 💐 Bouquets to Art, de Young + Legion of Honor, Jun 3 – 8, 2025 "Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON," Aug 30, 2025 – Aug 2, 2026 "Art of Manga," Sep 27, 2025 – January 25, 2026 "Embroidered Histories," October 25, 2025–October 25, 2026 | Legion of Honor | "Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art," Mar 22 – Aug 17, 2025 "Printing Color: Chiaroscuro to Screenprint," May 24 – Nov 30, 2025 💐 Bouquets to Art, de Young + Legion of Honor, Jun 3 – 8, 2025 "Ferlinghetti for San Francisco," Jul 19, 2025 – Mar 22, 2026 "Manet & Morisot," Oct 11, 2025 – Mar 1, 2026 "Yinka Shonibare," Jan 24, 2025 – Jul 26, 2026 [Paul McCartney. Self-portrait. London, 1963. © 1963 Paul McCartney under exclusive license to MPL Archive LLP]⁣ [Isaac Julien, North Star (Lessons of the Hour), 2019. © Isaac Julien Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro] [Wayne Thiebaud, Three Machines, 1963. © 2025 Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY] [Rose B. Simpson, "Maria," 2014. 1985 Chevy El Camino. Bodywork and customization by artist. Photograph by Kate Russell. Courtesy of the artist] [Édouard Manet, The Balcony, 1868-69. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY] [Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, "Feeling Free Like a Bird," 2023. © Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography] #deYoung #LegionOfHonor #Legion100 #ArtExhibition #BayAreaArt

Grateful to the brilliant team at ACT Art Conservation for helping us give our beloved lions some well-deserved TLC! Be sure to check out their freshly fixed snouts on your next visit to the Legion of Honor. 🦁✨

In the Studio Ep. 3 | Sitting down in the studio with Chelsea Ryoko Wong While attending California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco-based painter and muralist Chelsea Ryoko Wong worked a summer job right here at the de Young Museum store! Years later, her vibrant painting, "Mint Tea in the Sauna During Sunset" now hangs in our galleries. In this episode, Wong takes us inside her Mission District studio to share how her time in the Bay Area, printmaking, travels, and childhood memories come together in her joyful and meticulously layered figures and forms. Click the link below to watch the full episode on our FAMSF YouTube 📺 https://lnkd.in/gW-ui2sk #InTheStudio #deYoungMuseum #BayAreaArtist #BayAreaArt #SFArtist #SFArt

In 2013, Mauro Aprile Zanetti unexpectedly met the iconic poet, artist, and City Lights Bookstore founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti in a restaurant in North Beach, San Francisco. This chance encounter sparked a creative partnership and deep friendship that lasted until Ferlinghetti’s death in 2021. He became part of Zanetti’s family life, sharing meals, poetry, wisdom, and the timeless mantra: “Eat well. Laugh often. Love much. Live with tenderness.” Read Mauro Aprile Zanetti's full recollection “Living Poetry: My Time with Lawrence Ferlinghetti in San Francisco” and its companion article, “Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Life + Legacy,” by following the link below 📲 And don't forget to visit "Ferlinghetti for San Francisco" in person, open July 19, 2025 – March 22, 2026. https://lnkd.in/grGDtNet [Christopher Felver, "Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights," 1995. © Christopher Felver. Photo courtesy of Christopher Felver] [Christopher Felver, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Via Ferlinghetti, 1995. © Christopher Felver. Photo courtesy of Christopher Felver] #Ferlinghetti #NorthBeach #CityLights #LegionOfHonor #Legion100 #SanFrancisco

"In my project, the question is not simply aesthetic, but existential: 'Do you see us?' Not through the distortions of nationalism, racism, or xenophobia — but with clarity." – Wesaam Al-Badry Artist Wesaam Al-Badry’s photographs deal with power, politics, and social issues. We spoke to him about his documentation of farmworkers in California during the COVID-19 pandemic and how his work on Muslim culture and fashion has been misread. He also shared how his artistic practice is deeply interwoven with his work as an investigative journalist. To read more on his work and the exhibition "About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift," follow the link below 📲 https://lnkd.in/g8i8U8Bw [Wesaam Al-Badry, "Tangerines XI," 2020] [Wesaam Al-Badry, "Pomegranates #II," 2020] #deYoungMuseum #BayAreaArtist #CaliforniaPhotography

What's a "roemer" and why do they all seem to be green? Watch our video to find out! One of the roemer from our collection is currently on view in Gallery 15! Take a look around and see if you can find any hiding in the paintings too... #Roemer #Römer #NetherlandishArt #LegionOfHonor #legion100

This photograph, “Diasporic Dream‑Space No. 2,” based on Isaac Julien’s film “Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die),” shows a suspended, snowy scene inspired by bell hooks’s essay “Winter.” Reflecting on the entangled histories of Modern and African Art, as well as the space between reality and imagination, it captures a moment that feels both dreamlike and politically charged. The immersive five-screen installation includes a fictional conversation on African art between collector Albert C. Barnes and Alain Locke, known as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance.” The work touches on themes of colonialism, repatriation, and Black intellectual history. Don’t miss your chance to experience “Isaac Julien: I Dream a World,” closing THIS Sunday, July 13. Follow the link below to plan your visit. https://lnkd.in/ge4FnqUn [Isaac Julien, “Diasporic Dream-Space Parcour (Once Again . . . Statues Never Die),” 2024. Courtesy of the artist; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; and Victoria Miro Gallery] #IsaacJulien #IDreamAWorld #DeYoungMuseum #FilmArt #VideoArt

Waving goodbye to our "Water Lilies" as they head to Brooklyn for "Monet and Venice" 🪷 You can catch "Monet and Venice," at Brooklyn Museum October 11, 2025–February 1, 2026 https://lnkd.in/gBxm-bSn [Claude Monet, "Water Lilies," ca. 1914–1917] #MonetandVenice #LegionOfHonor #BrooklynMuseum #ClaudeMonet #Monet #Impressionism

During our interview with Isaac Julien, we asked him about how he balances visual art and cinema in his work? Here’s what he had to say: “I try to resist linear narrative in my work; even my early single-screen works like “Looking for Langston” (1989) investigate how the aesthetics of cinema can transgress the normative expectations for film. Moving image is a form of visual art unto itself, but of course one of the great opportunities that it presents an artist is to reference and inflect beyond cinema by reworking its codes. You see this at play in this exhibition with works like “Baltimore” (2003), which places Melvin Van Peebles beside a Black femme fatale cyborg in a science-fiction reimagining of the Blaxploitation genre that he pioneered. In “Ten Thousand Waves” (2010), I restaged scenes from the Chinese film “The Goddess” (1934). And of course “Fantôme Afrique” (2005) is fundamentally concerned with the cinematic landscape and architecture of Burkina Faso, whose capital city is host to the Cannes Film Festival of Africa — Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO).” To read our full interview with Isaac Julien, follow the link in bio. And, don’t forget to come see “Isaac Julien: I Dream a World,” while you still can! The exhibition closes this Sunday, July 13, 2025 💫 🎥: Riley Westgaard https://lnkd.in/gJ45Aah8 [Installation view of “Baltimore” (2003) in “Isaac Julien: I Dream a World,” de Young, 2025. Artwork ©️ Isaac Julien] #IsaacJulien #IDreamAWorld #DeYoungMuseum #ContemporaryFilm #VideoArt

Last week, Mayor Daniel Lurie and the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) announced $10.4 million in grant funding to support 98 local artists, 47 arts nonprofits, and 6 cultural centers as part of SFAC’s 2025–2026 grant cycle. Nearly half of the individual artist awardees are first-time recipients! We’re thrilled to see this level of support and commitment to sustaining the arts as a vital part of San Francisco’s cultural landscape. https://lnkd.in/gdCiHGbt