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This is your last week to catch “Recollections… from the Unknown Museum” on display in Terminal 2. The Unknown Museum was conceived as a hands-on experience, encouraging visitors to physically interact with stacks and shelves full of items. #UnknownMuseum This tweet was posted on September 16, 2024.
Virgin America built a solid reputation for delivering an improved passenger experience at a competitive price. Many of its passengers, if offered the choice, would fly no other airline, even if the ticket price on a particular route might be less on another carrier. #VXForever This tweet was posted on September 23, 2024.
When confronted with so many common objects from years past, visitors often asked curator Mickey McGowan to see a specific item, and then proceeded to search for it among a multitude of similar things. #UnknownMuseum This tweet was posted on September 16, 2024.
Do you ever wonder how SFO Museum creates our exhibitions? For the initial layout stage, armed with a list of objects, our exhibition designer and curators decide on how objects will be placed to tell a cohesive story. #behindthescenes #SFCityoftheWorld This tweet was posted on September 24, 2024.
This rapid growth in popularity came from Virgin America’s efforts to offer a truly fun travel experience unlike any other available in the industry at the time. With Virgin America, the passenger experience always came first. #VXForever This tweet was posted on September 23, 2024.
Guatemalan filmmaker Javier Roberto Carlos shares an intimate film portrait of Marcos “El Soñador” Alvarez, a blind street musician from El Salvador and his dreams of overcoming struggles through music in San Francisco. #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/mACJKIpiNj This tweet was posted on September 26, 2024.
Our newest exhibit, “San Francisco: City of the World” is now on display in T2! In 1846, around 1,000 people lived in the city. In 1848, gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The Gold Rush transformed SF into a bustling city of ~25,000 inhabitants. #SFCityoftheWorld This tweet was posted on September 30, 2024.
In their directorial debut, Charissa Kroeger and Eric Schloesser present a dance film fantasy where the meeting of two strangers ignites a sizzling, quirky outburst of dance in a retro-futuristic, parallel world. https://t.co/XHE1NUGVKW This tweet was posted on October 03, 2024.
Klein was influenced by an art style called Precisionism, which used detailed, sharply defined geometrical lines and forms. In his vibrant San Francisco poster, he features a Boeing 707 flying over the Golden Gate Bridge with a ship entering the Golden Gate. #AirwaysArtists This tweet was posted on October 02, 2024.
One of Africa’s most revered and ancient percussion instruments, drums, are carved from solid logs of wood and covered with a membrane. The drum shown here, from Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, is intricately carved with figures adorned with necklaces. #ArtoftheAfricanInstrument This tweet was posted on October 01, 2024.
San Francisco flourished in the late 19th-century, until a devastating earthquake in April of 1906 and its resulting fires leveled the city. “San Francisco: City of the World” explores the iconic city’s colorful history from the late 19th-century to the 1980s. #SFCityoftheWorld This tweet was posted on September 30, 2024.
After WWII, Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) added new international routes to Europe & changed its name to Trans World Airlines. David Klein created a series of eye-catching posters featuring TWA’s newly introduced state-of-the-art Lockheed L-1649 Starliner. #AirwaysArtists This tweet was posted on October 09, 2024.
By contrast, in David Klein's Spain and Italy posters, he used a modern three-dimensional style. His Spain poster highlights one of the country’s popular attractions, the bullfights, with intricately dressed matadors. #AirwaysArtists #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 09, 2024.
In his Paris poster, David Klein used a style suggestive of French Impressionism to create a view of the Eiffel Tower. At the bottom he depicts two nuns and a group of schoolgirls, reminiscent of the popular children’s book Madeline. #AirwaysArtists This tweet was posted on October 09, 2024.
The steel oil drums' lids are cut open with a chisel and hammer and a long vertical split is made along the side of the drums. The interiors are filled with dried sugarcane or grass and lit on fire to remove any grime; once cool, the drums are flattened into sheets. #HaitianMetal This tweet was posted on October 16, 2024.
This is your last week to see “The Enduring Spirit of Haitian Metal Sculpture” on display! Haiti has long celebrated a rich artistic and cultural heritage. Discarded steel oil drums have historically served as the base material for Haitian metal artists. #HaitianMetal This tweet was posted on October 16, 2024.
📸: 2. Continental Airlines Boeing 707 flight information packet folder cover (detail) c. 1960 paper, ink Collection of SFO Museum Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2014.095.427 a R2024.0401.021 This tweet was posted on October 04, 2024.
Airlines also contracted with aircraft model makers to create minutely detailed airliner models, including cutaway versions that revealed cabin interiors. Models of airliners afforded customers a unique 3D view of the aircraft in which they could potentially fly. #CutAboveModels This tweet was posted on April 17, 2024.
The Chinese word for “lion” can be a pun for “generations” (shi), “master” (shi), and “thoughts” (si), all pronounced the same way. Because they are powerful creatures, guardian lions (“foo dogs”) guard the entrances to temples and public buildings. #ChineseCeramics This tweet was posted on April 23, 2024.
The artwork is intended to serve as a visual memento for each viewer, offering a first or departing look into San Francisco for locals and visitors alike. #SFAC #PublicArt #EmilyFromm This tweet was posted on April 15, 2024.
A very special thank you to Forrest L. Merrill for making this exhibition possible. See "Kay Sekimachi: Weaving Traditions" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1. https://t.co/6dR9pasyoc #KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi #AAPIHM This tweet was posted on May 01, 2024.
After weaving a linen sample, Sekimachi realized she could produce three-dimensional forms using a nylon monofilament material (now commonly known as fishing line) that DuPont introduced in 1959. #KaySekimachi #AAPIHM This tweet was posted on May 01, 2024.
Chinese American director Christina Xing stars in her own film about a phone call between a traditional Chinese mother and her American born Chinese daughter. This film deals with the complex dynamics between generations, culture, and family. #VideoArtsSFO #AAPIHM https://t.co/6V7m85oXr7 This tweet was posted on May 02, 2024.
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 This tweet was posted on May 07, 2024.
Fiber artist, Kay Sekimachi is Nisei, a second-generation Japanese American, born in San Francisco’s Japantown in 1926. Sekimachi’s series of monofilament sculptures began in 1963 as an experiment to weave a wall hanging in multiple, translucent layers. #KaySekimachi #AAPIHM This tweet was posted on May 01, 2024.
Sang Joon Kim, a Korean American director based in New York, shares his frustrations about people and living in urban environments, while realizing that he has become just like everyone else. #VideoArtsSFO #AAPIHM https://t.co/7a0xgMdd5M This tweet was posted on May 09, 2024.
They are also a testament to the dedicated and inspiring CCSF printmaking instructors who taught these techniques at the Fort Mason campus during this forty-five-year period. #StudentArt This tweet was posted on April 29, 2024.
“Samm: Hank didn’t know she was a girl until she was around eleven or twelve. She was always the boy in the family. If it was Thanksgiving, Mom and the girls cooked dinner while she and Dad went hunting.” - Hank, 76, and Samm, 67 #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on May 07, 2024.
RT @KentGerman: If you loved Virgin America as I did, there's a great exhibit at the @SFOMuseum chronicling the airline's history, brand id… This tweet was posted on May 14, 2024.
“This Infinite Gateway of Time and Circumstance” transforms as images of earth, sea and various graphics give way to a gradient of translucent whites, revealing what Hashimoto envisioned as “a cloud of kites, & a landscape of air & earth, painted at the edge of the sky.” #AAPIHM This tweet was posted on May 10, 2024.
“This Infinite Gateway of Time and Circumstance” creates the impression of a landscape drifting in & out of visibility through clouds, or slowly becoming subsumed by a descending marine layer. #SFAC #PublicArt #AAPIHM This tweet was posted on May 10, 2024.
📸: Yoruba batá drummer  1951 Photograph by William Bascom (1912–81) Oyo State, Nigeria © Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California 15-31827, R2024.0204.001 This tweet was posted on May 13, 2024.
A very special thank you to Forrest L. Merrill for making this exhibition possible. See "Kay Sekimachi: Weaving Traditions" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 or online at: https://t.co/6dR9pasyoc #KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi #AAPIHM This tweet was posted on May 15, 2024.
A very special thank you to Mickey McGowan for making this exhibition possible. See “Recollections… from the Unknown Museum” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/FFFoijZTJd #UnknownMuseum #MickeyMcGowan #BayArea #BayAreaHistory This tweet was posted on May 20, 2024.
Asian Canadian director Jessica JM Wu shares a feel-good narrative music video of a Japanese schoolboy who fails to woo his crush and his elaborate plan to try and win her back. #VideoArtsSFO #AAPIHM https://t.co/GGzN03vzqQ This tweet was posted on May 16, 2024.
Elected to the SF Board of Supervisors, Milk represented District 5. Milk campaigned for gay rights and along SF Mayor George Moscone helped pass a city ordinance, authored by Milk, that banned discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment and housing. #HarveyMilkDay This tweet was posted on May 22, 2024.