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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.

Hung Liu was a Bay Area artist whose signature painterly style was one that allowed the paint to drip across the image. In "Take Off", the boy’s outstretched arms mirror the bird’s spreading wings, making it a metaphor for the ancient human aspiration towards flight. #HungLiu This tweet was posted on May 21, 2024.

In his Peru poster, Lawler featured the ruins of Machu Picchu with figures watching a Douglas DC-2 pass overhead. Although the air route did not actually cross at the site, his message was clear: come to Peru by air to see wonders of the Pre-Columbian world. #AirwaysArtists This tweet was posted on May 28, 2024.

Indian American director Hrishi Bardha shares the story of a young girl struggling to bury her pet bird in fear of it haunting her. His film highlights Hinduism in America and the difficulties of preserving one’s traditions and heritage. #VideoArtsSFO #AAPIHM https://t.co/8bm497Jibw This tweet was posted on May 23, 2024.

Sekimachi created a series of hanging sculptures that she named “River,” stating, “I thought of them as rivers because they were narrow and long and sometimes the warp threads were twisted and sort of hung free, and then they came together again.” #KaySekimachi #AAPIHM This tweet was posted on May 15, 2024.

The poster commemorates the closing of the original buildings of Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco on May 14, 1966. poster: San Mateo County Historical Association, Mills Field; 1966 Gift of John R. Barker 2002.005.044 a https://t.co/qZFZTjYHpS #52Posters #AvGeek This tweet was posted on May 14, 2024.

To weave such long and complex shapes off the loom, Sekimachi employed a six-foot-long, cribbage-like board made by her husband, the master woodturner Bob Stocksdale (1913–2003), that could accommodate up to 400 warp threads and 100 cards. #KaySekimachi #AAPIHM This tweet was posted on May 15, 2024.

With her preference to focus on one media and technique at a time, Sekimachi then substituted linen for monofilament and created the Marugawa series of card-woven tubes, naming them for a Japanese word that translates to “round river.” #KaySekimachi #AAPIHM This tweet was posted on May 15, 2024.

“I try to supply fifty percent of the experience. The rest is up to the viewer.” —Mickey McGowan, April 1987 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 May 20, 2024.

During the 1930s, Pan American Airways rapidly grew and developed a vast commercial network. To attract the few who could afford to fly at this time, the airline asked Paul George Lawler to create posters to promote its numerous international destinations. #AirwaysArtists This tweet was posted on May 28, 2024.

Forbes applauded the video as “a peppy tune, outstanding choreography, and a healthy dose of attitude… the video encapsulates Virgin's exuberant style and offers a clear distinction between itself and the staid safety messages of its competitors." #VXForever This tweet was posted on May 29, 2024.

In 2013, Virgin Produced, a Virgin Group production company, created a new type of musical airline safety video for Virgin America that amused and entertained its passengers in a uniquely Virgin way. https://t.co/FKka61ufup #VXForever This tweet was posted on May 29, 2024.