Sharing some standout art from recent SF trip, went to the de Young museum which had three current exhibitions of interest: Alice Neel’s People Come First (retrospective of her rarely/never before seen paintings of community, friends, mothers and women), Patrick Kelly’s Runway of Love, and Hung Liu’s gigantic mural. Outside at the Golden Gate Park’s music concourse there was a powerful installation by sculptor Dana King that overlooked the lady of liberty sculpture. Who knew SFO had an entire museum with progressive art plastered throughout every terminal. Some standout exhibitions were First-Generation | China Dream and Suburban Chinatown by Theresa Eng and Jessica Chou, the amazing colorful mosaic walls by Joyce Kozloff and Leonardo Drew’s prolific found object installation Number 69S.
Having been to many airport cities, SFO museum had one the strongest art programs I have seen in a US airport. Airports are important places of merging, of connection and diversity. Airports can be maximized to engage community. All the exhibitions at SFO Museum felt relevant to the trends of current society, their program does much to help enrich and give back to their city and community of artists. Denver has DIA – one of the top airports in the world. I love my DIA with its stellar architecture reminiscent of teepees. I feel like DEN Arts (DIA’s art program) could absolutely step its game up and reinvent its programming to curate the robust selection of artists in Colorado.
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