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@RodBogart We're very sorry but the exhibition rotation starts this week with the de-instillation of "Mathematics: Vintage and Modern" and in the installation of "Japonisme: A Passion for Japan." https://t.co/h19OB3lHAM This tweet was posted on April 25, 2022.

Happy Arab American Heritage Month! Celebrate with an online viewing of “King of the Night" by LonelyLeap. Imad Khachan, born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees, operates NYC’s last remaining chess shop as a welcoming place to create community. https://t.co/n9avSLUOMl #NAAHM https://t.co/uEhcnl2oIx This tweet was posted on April 25, 2022.

Our “you collect what?” list is lengthy. Among the unexpected items are tray liners, which help to create the perfect place-setting for a meal service. Browse through over fifty of them on our collection website! https://t.co/d3DBDsRn9E #collections #avgeek #aviationhistory This tweet was posted on April 25, 2022.

📸 2/2: brochure: Continental Airlines, Boeing 747; 1970 Gift of David A. Abercrombie in memory of Stanley A. Abercrombie 2001.039.209 https://t.co/dnl4JJ9J2W postcard: Continental Airlines, Boeing 707-320C; c.1970 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2008.055.293 This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.

Air New Zealand was founded as TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Limited) #onthisday in 1940. TEAL was created as a joint venture between BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), Qantas Empire Airways, and the New Zealand government. #airnewzealand #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 26, 2022.

In 1973, Air New Zealand began using the “Koru” logo representing the tip of the silver fern. An integral part of native Māori art and culture symbolizing new growth, strength, and peace, the logo is still used on a wide range of products associated with the airline. #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 26, 2022.

See "From Pineapple to Piña: A Philippine Textile Treasure" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/WWq06Yg2xJ #PineappletoPina #pineapple #lace #fashion #design #Phillipines This tweet was posted on April 26, 2022.

"Paperhangings should in no case be allowed to cover the whole space of a wall from skirting to ceiling….The most dreary method of decorating the wall of a sitting-room is to cover it all over with an unrelieved pattern of monotonous design.” - Charles Locke Eastlake, 1867 This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.

A complementary fill pattern above the dado set off framed prints hung from picture rails; a frieze, or decorative border, adorned the top of walls. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.

Fashionable Aesthetic Movement interiors displayed threefold division of walls. A dado covered the lower part of the wall and provided an alternative to wood paneling. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.

The Caravelle was a medium-range jetliner that featured twin, rear-mounted turbofan engines, a clean swept wing, an exceedingly aerodynamic nose section, and a high-mounted horizontal stabilizer. #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.

📸 2/3: photograph: Pan American Airways, Auckland, New Zealand, Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL); c. 1940 Gift of Marion L. Yates in memory of John A. Yates, PAA April 1938 - 1973 2006.015.015 h This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.

📸 3/3: postcard: Air New Zealand, Douglas DC-8-50; 1960s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.0036 model airplane: Air New Zealand, Boeing 747-400; c. 1990s Gift of Mark F. Adams Collection 2001.106.039 a b This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.

After China’s civil war (1945-1949), CAT relocated to the island of Taiwan in 1950, and evolved from a relief cargo airline to a government contractor and commercial carrier. In 1953, the airline formally became the flag carrier of the Republic of China. #CAT #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on April 28, 2022.

Choreographers Peter Walker and Emily Kikta collaborate with forty-six dancers across twenty different countries during the pandemic to remind us that dance is a universal language—not bound by theater walls or limited by borders. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO #InternationalDanceDay https://t.co/ZmqhDbQgGV This tweet was posted on April 28, 2022.

In his sculpture, “Kneeling Woman,” Gandari skillfully leaves the hair unpolished to create a beautiful texture that contrasts with the body’s rich green sheen. #ZimbabweSculpture #Zimbabwe This tweet was posted on April 29, 2022.

Pheoleen Gandari’s interest in art began during grade school at Zengeza in Chitungwiza, a township in Harare. While in school, Gandari was inspired to carve stone by Newman Chikuni, a senior artist at the Chitungwiza Arts Centre. #ZimbabweSculpture #Zimbabwe This tweet was posted on April 29, 2022.

With the addition of a Convair 880, CAT became Asia’s first regional airline to offer its passengers jet service on July 11, 1961. CAT replaced its Convair 880 with a Boeing 727 but it was lost near Taipei in Feb 1968. By May, CAT’s domestic services shut down. #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on April 28, 2022.

After Japan opened to international trade, following a prolonged period of isolation from the West, French author Philippe Burty coined the term Japonisme in 1872 to describe the new fervor for all things Japanese. #Japonisme #Japan #Design This tweet was posted on May 02, 2022.

This exhibition features American and European decorative arts from the 1870s-90s, when Japonisme reached its peak in popularity. See “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan” on on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/CsNirkUbag #Japonisme #Japan #Design This tweet was posted on May 02, 2022.

📸 1/2: sauce dish: Air France; c. 1970 Gift of Robert Foster Seal 2015.050.011 https://t.co/rr0sRWNpRF soup bowl with lid: EVA Air, Royal Laurel Class; c. 2014 Gift of Vincent Ma 2020.074.0028 a b https://t.co/XsuSLCg6lC This tweet was posted on May 02, 2022.

During the 1970s, pioneering American studio glass artist Marvin Lipofsky refined his formula for creating collaborative glass sculpture. The first stage was fast-paced, involving a number of glassmakers working in concert with one another over a handful of days. #MarvinLipofsky This tweet was posted on May 03, 2022.

Multiple layers of clear and colored glass were heated in a furnace and rolled onto the end of a blowpipe. Once the hot glass was blown into a suitable bubble, it was placed into a mold to form its initial shape. #studioglass #MarvinLipofsky This tweet was posted on May 03, 2022.

RT @airandspace: In 1932, Katherine Cheung became the first woman of Chinese descent to earn a pilot's license in the United States. She pe… This tweet was posted on May 03, 2022.

RT @thisisaaronland: “So long as @sfomuseum can export the things that it posts on a social media service we can and should take on some of… This tweet was posted on May 04, 2022.

Upon return to his Berkeley studio, Lipofsky spent countless hours with a diamond saw, pneumatic grinder, belt sander, and sandblasting cabinet, sculpting his blown glass forms into lively and organic expressions of studio craft. #studioglass #MarvinLipofsky This tweet was posted on May 03, 2022.

The company had a near monopoly on inter-East Coast services from the 1930s to the 1950s. Eastern promoted its image with an eagle symbol and a slogan describing its airplanes as “The Great Silver Fleet.” #DefunctThursday #Eastern #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on May 05, 2022.

Today is #NationalNursesDay. Did you know during the 1930s & 40s, stewardess across various airlines were required to be trained nurses? Ellen Church, a registered nurse, began her first shift as the first female cabin crewmember at Boeing Air Transport on May 15, 1930. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on May 06, 2022.

With the advent of the jet age, a new logo was developed as an abstract representation of the eagle. The new symbol’s clean lines and sense of speed was matched with the company name in a modern typeface to create a distinct trademark. #DefunctThursday #Eastern #AvGeek This tweet was posted on May 05, 2022.

During Spanish colonization, young Filipina women acquired a Western education at convents, orphanages, and schools that were established throughout the Philippines. Female students learned all manner of needlework, from basic stitches to intricate embroidery. #PineappletoPina This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

Envisioned by Hashimoto as “a cloud of kites, and a landscape of air and earth, painted at the edge of the sky,” the work transforms as images of earth, sea and various graphics give way to a gradient of translucent whites. #AAPIHM #JacobHashimoto @SFAC This tweet was posted on May 09, 2022.

Introduced in 1959, the Douglas DC-8 was United Air Lines’ first jet airliner to be launched into service. Branded the “Jet Mainliner” by United, it was a major advancement in airliner design and officially launched the airline into the jet age. #aircraftmodels #avgeek #dc8 This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

One of our favorite features on our collection’s website is the ‘Random Object’ button, which is a fun way to get a speed tour through our online holdings. Our click revealed this 1969 architectural rendering of @flysfo. What will yours reveal? https://t.co/cMkPGBTtcJ #AvGeek This tweet was posted on May 09, 2022.

RT @flySFO: SFO celebrated the installation of a bas relief portrait honoring the late SF Mayor Ed Lee on what would have been his 70th bir… This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

See "From Pineapple to Piña: A Philippine Textile Treasure" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/WWq06Yg2xJ #PineappletoPina #pineapple #lace #fashion #design #Phillipines This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.

The work creates the impression of a landscape drifting in and out of visibility through clouds, or slowly becoming subsumed by a descending marine layer. #AAPIHM #JacobHashimoto @SFAC This tweet was posted on May 09, 2022.