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Legion of Honor Museum

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Pastels Are Damned Beautiful

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn January 10, 2022January 12, 2022

An exhibition spanning the 16th century to the present displays pastels in all their lush, radiating color.

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Sarah Lucas Squashes Rodin’s Idealism

by Clayton Schuster August 1, 2017August 1, 2017

At the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, an exhibition marking the centennial of Rodin’s death juxtaposes his work with Sarah Lucas’s materially soft but conceptually tough sculptures.

Posted inArt

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.

Posted inBooks

The Many Identities of Raphael’s “Lady with a Unicorn”

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 22, 2016January 25, 2016

The 16th-century “Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn” by Raphael was altered twice: first by the artist, who replaced a lap dog with a tiny unicorn; then in the 17th century, when the sitter’s bare shoulders were covered and the broken martyrdom wheel of St. Catherine of Alexandria was painted over the mythical creature.

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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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