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📸: tabletop aircraft model; late 1930s Purchase 1997.80.01 a b https://t.co/M30gX3bUIw This tweet was posted on January 30, 2023.
Alison Saar's “Flourish” is a story of displacement and inclusion; a narrative of seeded with the adversity that migrants and refugees often experience upon arrival. #PublicArt #AlisonSaar #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 03, 2023.
For the next 4 years, 90,000 people signed up for a space trip and received these First Moon Flights Club cards. The card's back read, "Pan Am makes the going great: first in Latin America, first on the Atlantic, first on the Pacific, first round the world." #52Objects #PanAm This tweet was posted on February 06, 2023.
In 1968, Juan Trippe, Pan Am's founder, announced the airline's "First Moon Flights" Club. "2001: A Space Odyssey" released that year featured an imagined Pan American operated spacecraft. #52Objects #PanAm This tweet was posted on February 06, 2023.
Learn more about San Francisco Opera’s history in our exhibition “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx #BlackHistoryMonth @SFOpera #SFOperaCentennial #LeontynePrice This tweet was posted on February 06, 2023.
Learn more about San Francisco Opera’s history in our exhibition “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx @SFOpera #SFOperaCentennial This tweet was posted on February 01, 2023.
Saar intends the work to serve as a reminder of the common immigrant roots, the riches that thrives from diversity, as well as, from our collective experience. #PublicArt #AlisonSaar #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 03, 2023.
See “A Concerto is a Conversation” by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers in the Video Arts Gallery, located pre-security in the International Terminal, open daily from 7 am to 10 pm. Learn more about this month’s films at: https://t.co/s0oA7gcWli #VideoArtsSFO #KrisBowers @bgproudfoot This tweet was posted on February 02, 2023.
See “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/CsNirkD88g #Japonisme #Japan #design #tile #ceramics #transferware This tweet was posted on February 07, 2023.
The works also a portrait of perseverance and resilience - about the future, the flourishing of a new life, the soil, rooted in possibility, Saar intends the work to be a beacon that welcomes new travelers to San Francisco #PublicArt #AlisonSaar #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 03, 2023.
This tile shows three cranes flying above waves, with a full moon and two clouds behind them. The cranes and waves are adapted from a Japanese pot that was displayed as a “jardinière” at the International Exhibition in London in 1862. #Japonisme #Japan #design #tile This tweet was posted on February 07, 2023.
“I want the audience to feel what I’m doing. There must be real activity going on…I believe that movement cannot be staid and studied. It must come from what the character is doing, and you must have something going on as a performer as well as a singer.” - Leontyne Price, 1973 This tweet was posted on February 06, 2023.
In 1963, American President Kennedy announced the launch of a government-funded SST program to compete with the Concorde project. Three airframe designs were selected for review: the North American Aviation NAC-60, the Boeing 733, and the Lockheed L-2000. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on February 09, 2023.
Lockheed’s SST design was similar the Concorde, both aircraft featuring a long nose section, a delta wing, and a long narrow body. By 1967, Lockheed constructed a full-size display of the L-2000 SST and was actively promoting the aircraft to major airlines. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on February 09, 2023.
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The contrasting hues, textures, & patterns of “Parallel Portions” come together to form a harmonious whole. With its strikingly juxtaposed bands of color, the painting upholds the possibility of living side-by-side in a celebration of our differences. #MikeHenderson This tweet was posted on February 08, 2023.
To create “Parallel Portions,” Henderson applied vibrant hues of purple and blue in multiple layers, building them up into a luscious impasto and scraping them off with a palette knife to reveal glimpses of color below. #BlackHistoryMonth #MikeHenderson This tweet was posted on February 08, 2023.
Clara Barck Welles founded the Kalo Shop in 1900 in Chicago. The name was chosen from a Greek word meaning “to make beautiful.” The Kalo Shop burgeoned into one of the most influential American handwrought silver manufacturers of the Arts and Crafts movement. #BarckWellesSilver This tweet was posted on June 09, 2023.
Did you know Bernard M. “Mike” Doolin, the fourth director of @flySFO was also an accomplished aviator? After serving as a pilot in during WWI, Doolin worked at Standard Oil and was frequently seen at SFO piloting a Boeing Model 40 and a Stearman 4 Junior Speedmail. #52Objects This tweet was posted on June 12, 2023.
Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individuals. #ToSurviveOnThisShore #PrideMonth2023 #Pride This tweet was posted on June 06, 2023.
Event Alert! March 28, 2023, at 7PM PST: Join our curator Nicole and fashion designer Anthony Cruz Legarda for a talk on our recent exhibition on Pina textile lace! The talk will be ONLINE. Sign up here: https://t.co/3cbIucGItA This tweet was posted on February 10, 2023.
For 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴, Liang chose to create a “spiritual, abstract world,” he says, “what you would call the in-between, where it’s neither this world nor the next world... I don’t want to limit audiences in what they see.” #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on June 13, 2023.
In the 1940s, the double decker Convair Model 37 planned but was never put into production. Nevertheless, Pan American Airways, who ordered 15 airframes, produced these postcards to advertise the Model 37 as a “Preview of Tomorrow’s Flying Clipper.” #52Objects #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 05, 2023.
See "A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver" on display pre-security in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/b287tgjRdW #BarckWellesSilver #Silver This tweet was posted on June 09, 2023.
We are saddened to learn about the passing of artist Jim Melchert. Melchert's piece "Riven/River," a fantastic example of his signature abstract expressionism style incorporated into ceramic tiles, is located the post-security connector between T1 and T2. https://t.co/ssCmemTyBl This tweet was posted on June 07, 2023.
Cheers to a happy Valentine’s Day! This beverage menu from United Air Lines from the 1960s features a Special Very Dry Martini-on-the-Rocks (Gin or Vodka). Are you celebrating Valentine’s Day? #UnitedAirLines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 14, 2023.
Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore” by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individual. #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on February 14, 2023.
Fashionable and functional, this polyester tailored suit in the softer shade of #PanAm blue has a classic blazer with subtle cuff trim and was worn with a matching vest and ribbon bow tie. With two styles of optional headwear, the uniform was worn until 1991. #Adolfo #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 15, 2023.
Some of Schatz's lamps conducted electrical current through copper wire embedded in Plexiglas; this lamp utilizes a spiral-shaped copper tube as a base and channel for the lamp cord. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #ZaharaSchatz This tweet was posted on February 15, 2023.
What’s going on at the museum? We’re preparing for our newest exhibition celebrating the San Francisco Ballet. Featuring objects from San Francisco Ballet, our preparators are making mounts for pointe shoes, essential footwear for a dancer. #behindthescenes #ballet @sfballet This tweet was posted on February 13, 2023.
“As far back as I could remember, I've always felt like a boy… Back then I didn't know the word “transgender," ... And then when I explained how I felt to somebody, they said, "Oh, transgender…" So that's how I got to identify as transgender.“ – Preston #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on February 14, 2023.
In 1948, BCPA received the new, long-range, pressurized Douglas DC-6 airliner. For the long, forty-hour, multi-stop Southern Cross route, each aircraft was comfortably equipped with reclining seats, sleeping berths, and a lounge in the aft. #FlyingSouthernCross #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 16, 2023.
The artist uses the basketball as a metaphor for the black body and its changing meaning throughout history. #PublicArt #DavidHuffman #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 17, 2023.
Washington, D.C.-based filmmaker Abi Cole follows @NewYorker ’s first Black, female cartoonist, Liz Montague, who sketches a world in which Black women are the main characters. #VideoArtsSFO #BlackHistoryMonth #LizMontague #AbiCole This tweet was posted on February 16, 2023.
By the late 1920s, Westinghouse began producing single Micarta props that could be attached to a two-bladed metal hub. The hub was designed to be pitch-adjustable on the ground #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on February 21, 2023.
Micarta is a plastic compound first developed around 1910 by George Westinghouse. Initially, it was fabricated by interleaving layers of Bakelite plastic with either paper or fabric and formed into a desired shape in a mold with heat and pressure. #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on February 21, 2023.