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"When you see this piece, does it talk to you? What does it say?" ✨
New York–based Ugandan artist Leilah Babirye's work speaks to the power of reclaiming personal and cultural identity. She explores this through multimedia sculptures, drawing on historical narratives and traditions.
Watch Babirye and Natasha Becker, curator of African art, discuss ancestors, reclamation, and Babirye's new exhibition, "We Have a History." Follow the link below to read more about the exhibition or see the short film in full on our YouTube channel.
https://www.famsf.org/stories/leilah-babirye-sculpture-african-art-queer-identity
#LeilahBabirye #AfricanArt #QueerArt
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"When you see this piece, does it talk to you? What does it say?" ✨ New York–based Ugandan artist Leilah Babirye's work speaks to the power of reclaiming personal and cultural identity. She explores this through multimedia sculptures, drawing on historical narratives and traditions. Watch Babirye and Natasha Becker, curator of African art, discuss ancestors, reclamation, and Babirye's new exhibition, "We Have a History." Follow the link below to read more about the exhibition or see the short film in full on our YouTube channel. https://www.famsf.org/stories/leilah-babirye-sculpture-african-art-queer-identity #LeilahBabirye #AfricanArt #QueerArt
Follow our interns on a tour of our paper conservation lab at the Legion of Honor 🕊️🏛️ #ArtConservation #PaperConservation #LegionOfHonor
📹 "To create our own families that we can accept as LGBT+ persons. Happy people." --Leilah Babirye shares her experience being LGBTQIA+ in Uganda and its impact on her life and work. Experience the power of Leilah Babirye's work in her exhibition "Leilah Babirye: We Have a History," on view through June 6, 2025 🌈 [The Fearless Art Practice of Leilah Babirye, 2024 © Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Additional footage © 2024, AX Mina, Mina Projects LLC, Rubbish: The Queer Kingdom of Leilah Babirye] #LeilahBabirye #LGBTQ #LGBTArtist #ContemporarySculpture #ContemporaryArt
Join Addy as she takes us through a day-in-the-life of a singer in Lee Mingwei's "Sonic Blossom" 🎶 Don't miss your final chance to witness these mesmerizing performances, running from tomorrow through Sunday! #LeeMingwei #RitualsOfCare #SonicBlossom
📹 Contemporary artist Leilah Babirye talks practice and process before her upcoming show "Leilah Babirye: We Have a History," opening THIS Saturday, June 22. Go to our link in bio to see the full film exploring Babirye’s work and practice on our Youtube page 📺 AND, join us in celebrating the opening of Leilah Babirye's exhibition tomorrow by listening to the artist talk about her work in conversation with our Curator of African Art Natasha Becker ✨ #LeilahBabirye #ContemporarySculpture #ContemporaryArt
This portrait has a symbolic reference to Venus, goddess of love 💘 Do you see it? Hint: look in Mrs. Sargent's hand! In it, you'll find a scalloped shell, similar to the one Venus stands on in Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" (ca. 1485). Mrs. Sargent holds the shell under a stream of water, which symbolizes purity and fertility. [John Singleton Copley, "Mrs. Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner)," 1763, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd] [Sandro Botticelli, "Birth of Venus," ca. 1485, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, Google Art Project] #BeyondTheFrame #AmericanArt #Venus
Just call us Mr. Worldwide 🌎 Spanning over 14 states and 7 countries, the "Osher Collection of American Art" features the work of 19th- and 20th-century American artists at home and abroad. They traveled far and wide to find inspiration and train with the best artists of their time. Many of these locations are the sites of art colonies, where artists gathered to learn from one another. American artists who went abroad brought home European ideas, like Impressionism. "Osher Collection of American Art" opens tomorrow! It will be on view until October 20. Where would you travel to first? ✈️ #OsherCollection #AmericanArt #AroundTheWorld
Do you recognize the person in this painting? It's Laure, the model known for posing as the maid in Édouard Manet's "Olympia" (1863). Firelei Báez painted her over a map of the triangular trade route that transported enslaved people and enabled colonialism from the 16th through 19th centuries. Báez references Laure to create alternate pasts and potential futures in order to reassess the present. How do you use art to reimagine the past, present, and future? [Firelei Báez, "Laure (New General Chart for the West Indies of E. Wright's Projection)," 2021, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco purchase, Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions © Firelei Báez] [Édouard Manet, "Olympia," 1863, Musée d'Orsay, Wikimedia Commons, Google Art Project] #BeyondTheFrame #EdouardManet #ArtHistory
Did you know that the great earthquake of 1906 changed the San Francisco high-fashion scene? After the earthquake hit on April 18, 1906, shops and factories were destroyed, so high-end retailers began importing goods — including clothing — from Europe. These styles helped wealthy San Franciscans reassert the city's identity after the disaster. Outfits like this Callot Soeurs bodice and skirt were showcased at events such as the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Want to learn more about San Francisco's fashion history? Come to "Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style"! [Callot Soeurs, Ensemble: bodice and skirt, ca. 1908 with later alterations, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of the Provident Securities Company] #FashioningSF #HighFashion #SanFrancisco
In three words, what does Auguste Rodin's "The Three Shades" bring to mind? Our poet-in-residence Ben Bernthal of Strangers Poems Project can write a poem out of just three words, and now he wants you to take part and create poems with him! In the comments, share the three words that come to mind when you see this sculpture (for a chance to win free museum tickets), and Ben may use yours as inspiration for a poem ✨ Here's a little background on the statue to help you get started: The three figures are shades, or souls of the damned, bowing under the weight of immense pressure and hopelessness. It was meant to be placed at the top of an unrealized monumental doorway for a museum in Paris. Rodin called it the "Gates of Hell," inspired by Dante's famous vision of the underworld in his "Inferno." With all that in mind, we'd love to hear what you're thinking in the comments. No pressure 🫣 [Auguste Rodin, "The Three Shades," 1898, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Collection of the City and County of San Francisco, Gift of the Raphael Weill Memorial Committee] #Rodin #ArtPoetry #DantesInferno
Ever dream of becoming a sculpture? 💭 We're making that dream a reality! Join us for de Youngsters Day Out, an all-day event filled with hands-on art activities where you can turn yourself and your family into a living sculpture, make a paper sculpture that fits in your pocket, and so much more. Need more convincing? Tickets are FREE! Reserve yours at the link below, and come play with us on May 4 🎨 https://tickets.famsf.org/events/283/detail/65cd4430d3082616cf30b47d #BayAreaKids #FamilyFun #BayAreaEvents
We're no strangers to Strangers Poems Project 🥸 Ben Bernthal wrote this poem to Gioia, based on her three words "containment," "refuse," "scavenge." containment breaks. the artist scavenges among the rats of broken boroughs. refuse as a refuge one can build from cast-off cabinets, milk crates, the busted banisters of the forsaken brownstones past atonement. the worlds we make, the worlds we occupy. Want to read more of Ben's poetry? Head to the link below 🔗 https://www.famsf.org/stories/strangers-poems-louise-nevelson [Louise Nevelson, "Sky Cathedral's Presence I," 1959-1962, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco purchase, Foundation purchase,Phyllis C. Watts Fund for Major Accessions © Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York] #StrangersPoems #Poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Strangers Poems Project round 2 😎 Ben Bernthal wrote this poem for Isaac, who came up with the words "crutch," "pedestal," and "lost" to describe Louise Nevelson's "Sky Cathedral's Presence I." Interested in what others saw when they looked at Nevelson's art? Read more of Bernthal's poems at the link below. https://www.famsf.org/stories/strangers-poems-louise-nevelson [Louise Nevelson, "Sky Cathedral's Presence I," 1959-1962, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco purchase, Foundation purchase, Phyllis C. Watts Fund for Major Accessions © Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York] #StrangersPoems #Poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
Get to know artist Lhola Amira ⌄⌄⌄ Amira, an ancestral presence who coexists in the body of curator Khanyisile Mbongwa, is an interdisciplinary artist from South Africa. THEY exist in plural together and incorporate South African Nguni spiritual practices in THEIR work, emphasizing the power of remembering ancestors. Amira's practice includes Appearance (whenever THEY are physically present), photography, video, and a type of sculpture THEY call Constellations (sacred spaces for healing). THEIR work asks you to reflect on the source of the hurt for Black people, queer people, Indigenous people, and others who have made life in the midst of catastrophe, while also making space for healing through connection to the earth, the ancestral, and the spiritual. Amira created the space for you to heal, now you just need to make the time. Experience "Lhola Amira: Facing the Future" before it closes on May 5. [Lhola Amira, "Lhola Amira: Facing the Future," 2022-2024]
"It's very difficult becoming an artist because you have to go against so many odds. It's a unique expression of life." —Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) We're remembering Faith Ringgold, an American painter, mixed-media artist, and activist. She dedicated her life and practice to amplifying the struggle for justice and equity of Black people in the United States, particularly Black women. In her 93 years, Ringgold produced a body of work that bears witness to the complexity of the American experience. Join us in celebrating her life as we look back at her 2022 de Young exhibition.
Ben Bernthal (Strangers Poems Project) can make a poem appear from just three words 🪄 Visitors had the chance to share words inspired by Louise Nevelson's "Sky Cathedral's Presence I" with Ben so he could work his magic. Kalina chose the words "altered," "reinvigorate," and "uniform," and here's what Ben wrote in response. Read more of Ben's three-word poems at the link below. What words come to your mind when you see Nevelson's artwork? https://www.famsf.org/stories/strangers-poems-louise-nevelson [Louise Nevelson, "Sky Cathedral's Presence I," 1959-1962, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco purchase, Phyllis C. Watts Fund for Major Accessions © Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]