Artist Spotlight: Mark Rothko
Andrea Duffie
Since I've seen so many of his works in my travels of late, and because I think the man behind the art is also pretty interesting, I thought I'd do an artist spotlight on Mark Rothko.
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Museumpalooza Blog
Welcome to Museumpalooza, a project that provides a non-traditional starting point for people to learn about museums and all the cool stuff inside of them.
Displaying Your Dinosaur: Fossils vs. Casts
Andrea Duffie
Tim and I have taken pictures with lots of dinosaurs at lots of museums lately. But how many of the fossils that we see on display are actually the real thing?
Read MoreA Few of My Favorite Things: Collection Highlights from San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
Andrea Duffie
In spite of my extreme lack of knowledge, I ended up seeing and learning a lot of really cool stuff at San Francisco's nationally-renowned Asian Art Museum.
Read MorePostmemory at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
Andrea Duffie
While Museumpalooza-ing in San Francisco, we paid a visit to the Contemporary Jewish Museum and wandered into the exhibit From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art. It turned out to be one of the most thought-provoking museum exhibitions that I've seen in a while.
Read MoreLiterary Rebels – On the Road with California's Beat Generation
Andrea Duffie
I spent some time at the Beat Museum and City Lights Books learning about the voices of the Beat Generation – Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac – while roaming their stomping grounds in San Francisco.
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