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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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Some Critics Question the Choice of Thomas Campbell as New Director of San Francisco Museums

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 14, 2018November 15, 2018

Some are questioning the choice, given previous accusations against Campbell of managerial misconduct and budget deficits.

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Degas and His Fascination with 19th-Century Hat Culture

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 24, 2017July 24, 2017

The exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum includes paintings by Impressionists, along with period hats and bonnets embellished with silk flowers, ribbons, plumes, and feathers.

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Crimes of the Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton October 20, 2015October 20, 2015

On this week’s art crime blotter: a magician’s public sculpture vanishes, a Basquiat is stolen and returned a few hours later in Paris, and hapless thieves in Florida sign the guestbook of a gallery as they rob it.

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What’s Going on at the SF Fine Arts Museums?

by Jillian Steinhauer May 6, 2013March 8, 2023

For more than six months, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have been in the news nonstop. Robert Flynn Johnson, the museums’ curator emeritus, summed it up pretty well when he called the museums’ situation “a state of Orwellian dysfunction.” And that’s just the news that’s been reported.

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Museum Union Battle Ends in San Francisco

by Jillian Steinhauer October 5, 2012March 8, 2023

After a year of tense negotiations, a breakdown in negotiations, protests and actions and then more negotiations, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 have settled their dispute! It’s a happy day for art news.

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SF’s de Young & Legion of Honor Museums Battle with Unions

by Jillian Steinhauer September 14, 2012March 8, 2023

Sotheby’s and its art handlers may have resolved their 10-month contract dispute earlier this year, but the labor fight is alive and well in the art world, and its current locus is San Francisco.

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Obsessions: de Young, San Francisco, Photo Composites

by Ian Epstein September 26, 2010September 29, 2010

Half the time I spend dumbfounded and in love with it has me asking myself whether or not it’s real, but San Francisco is still the easiest city in the world to have a crush on.

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