Café Crush
One of my best friends, filmmaker Sally Gutierrez Dewer, loves museum cafés. She insists that one should never get too tired of looking at a museum’s collection. The café provides a much needed space to relax, chat, and process.
I learned to appreciate museum cafés at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. You’ll need downtime in [...]
Dvořák dug Diversity
This weekend, a wonderful friend will take me to Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony at the San Francisco Symphony. In a New York Times article, Joseph Horowitz describes Dvořák’s stay in the United States as particularly invigorating because of his interaction with African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Horowitz writes [...]
Frida Kahlo at SFMOMA
Get ready to honor Frida Kahlo on the anniversary of her death, July 13, 1954. The exhibit at the The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a perfect way to dive into Kahlo’s life and art. There are 41 works that have not been displayed before and photographs of both Kahlo and Diego Rivera. [...]