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Lipofsky worked in China with glassmaster Wong Cheung Yun in 1996 and returned three years later to start a second series with Yun. The project was conducted at the renowned Dalian Shengdao Glassware Factory in northeastern China. #studioglass #contemporaryart #MarvinLipofsky This tweet was posted on January 13, 2022.

Marvin Lipofsky, one of the founding members of the American studio glass movement, was the first American artist to create glass sculpture in a Chinese factory. #studioglass #contemporaryart #MarvinLipofsky This tweet was posted on January 13, 2022.

RT @airandspace: Did you know that Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt were friends? On a spring evening in 1933, Amelia Earhart took the… This tweet was posted on January 25, 2022.

SFO Museum is proud to announce the launch of our new collections’ website! Search through over 30,000 objects from our aviation collection. Take a look here: https://t.co/6UsAK6Y8WU #collections #museumlife #SFOHistory #AvGeek #aviationhistory This tweet was posted on January 12, 2022.

See “Light Beams for the Sky of a Transfer Corridor” by Vito Acconci, located, pre-security, on the departures level of the International Terminal. https://t.co/D3DORlidNK #PublicArt #VitoAcconci @SFAC This tweet was posted on January 24, 2022.

727 Braniff Place featured patterned skirts with decorative borders and two different hemlines that were worn with shorts or palazzo pants. Matching pumps, an umbrella, purse, and a reversible coat completed the ensemble. #FlightPatterns #Braniff #EmilioPucci This tweet was posted on January 18, 2022.

Likely influenced by #Braniff’s routes to Latin America and the region’s traditional women’s wear, the blue, short-sleeve dress was made from lightweight nylon and was offered in square- or high-neck options, with a scoop neck for the sleeveless dress #FlightPatterns #EmilioPucci This tweet was posted on January 18, 2022.

RT @airandspace: On this day in 1911, Eugene Burton Ely made history when he became the first person to both land on and take-off from a na… This tweet was posted on January 18, 2022.

RT @flySFO: SFO has an amazing opportunity to lead the award-winning @SFOMuseum! We are hiring a Museum Director & Chief Curator who will… This tweet was posted on January 14, 2022.

William Burges, an architect, interior designer, & furniture designer, was as a proponent of the Gothic Revival in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Completely enamored by the medieval aesthetic, he created fanciful buildings with lavishly decorated interiors. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on January 19, 2022.

"A very large jar which has four handles pack it full of fresh meat—then light candles" Dave (c. 1800–70s) April 12, 1858 #StonewareStories This tweet was posted on January 04, 2022.

Each of his resonators were tuned to a specific frequency to identify and amplify sound. In the 1863 book "On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music", Helmholtz laid the scientific foundation for music theory. #AntiqueScientificInstruments This tweet was posted on January 03, 2022.

German physician & physicist Hermann von Helmholtz made important contributions to a variety of scientific fields: he invented the ophthalmoscope in 1851, which is still used to inspect the interior of the eye, as well as acoustic instruments, such as these resonators. This tweet was posted on January 03, 2022.

Sugihara’s anomalous mirror symmetry takes advantage of our expectation that lines appearing to be straight must be physically straight. Viewed in mirrors, his illusions show a change in appearance when seen in different directions. #MathAtSFO #KokichiSugihara This tweet was posted on December 29, 2021.

Viewed in mirrors, Sugihara’s illusions show a change in appearance when seen in different directions. He uses projective geometry to create anomalous mirror symmetry. The upper surface of these objects appears flat, but they are actually curved along the sight lines. #MathAtSFO This tweet was posted on December 29, 2021.

From their Pándēmos project, filmmakers Luis Aguer and Diego Medvedocky tell the story of a child who provides a first-hand perspective on the concepts of distance, solitude, and boredom in the frozen world of her Alaska home. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO This tweet was posted on January 07, 2022.

Jane Chow, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker from Hong Kong, produces this award-winning film about a lonely teenager who tries to help her parents keep their restaurant afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles Chinatown. #JaneChow #SorryForTheInconvenience This tweet was posted on December 16, 2021.

RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1903, the 1903 Wright Flyer made a brief 3.5-second first flight attempt. The Flyer's performance inspired Wilbur… This tweet was posted on December 14, 2021.

RT @airandspace: Today in 1903, the the Wright brothers made a flight that changed everything. The Wright Flyer became the first powered, h… This tweet was posted on December 17, 2021.

The center panel “Bay Area Funk”, is a collection of Berkeley memorabilia from the 1960s and includes images of many notable rock concert posters. #publicart #JoyceKozloff This tweet was posted on December 14, 2021.

#PanAmericanAviationDay encourages citizens from North, Central, & South America to increase their interest in aviation and commemorates the Wright Brother’s first sustained flight of a controlled, powered, heavier-than-air aircraft. What is your favorite aviation memory? #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 17, 2021.

📸 #2 & 3: Halfback Hugh McElhenny charges though an open hole during a 14-27 loss to the Chicago Bears at Kezar Stadium October 26, 1958 Wide receiver R. C. Owens makes a leaping catch during a preseason 24-17 victory over Washington at Kezar Stadium August 16, 1959 This tweet was posted on December 27, 2021.

"I guess I never talk so much about references, but the references were there. ...in Hokkaido and noticing the small spring flowers coming up, which were quite pretty, here and there, then using a lot of little colors in reference to my sculptures" —Marvin Lipofsky, 2003 This tweet was posted on December 09, 2021.

Powered by five Maybach V-12 engines, the Zeppelin had a cruising speed of seventy-five miles an hour. During its 590 flights, it flew more than one million miles and carried a total of 13,110 passengers. #WingWednesday #WinglessWednesday This tweet was posted on December 08, 2021.

SFO Museum celebrates the reopening of the Airport’s Video Arts screening room after a 20-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program features a rotating exhibition of four short films with new films introduced each month. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO This tweet was posted on December 07, 2021.

The Zeppelin Company built and operated the Graf Zeppelin from Germany. Launched in 1928, the Graf Zeppelin measured 776 feet in length and 100 feet in diameter. The airship featured a duralumin skeleton with triangular girders and a single keel. #WingWednesday #WinglessWednesday This tweet was posted on December 08, 2021.

Crookston dreamed of flying as a child. She served with the Civil Air Patrol as a survey pilot and with the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor, but she was excluded from work as an airline pilot due to her gender. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.

Happy birthday to us! Opened #OnThisDay in 2000, the Aviation Museum & Library turns 21 this year! It will re-open to visitors early next year with a new gallery, new exhibitions, and even new carpet! We can’t wait to welcome you back. #SFOHistory 📸: Under construction in 1999 This tweet was posted on December 10, 2021.

Marvin Lipofsky was a founding member of the American studio glass movement. For close to five decades, he worked in glass factories and workshops all over the world, earning him the title of the “roving ambassador of glass.” #MarvinLipofsky This tweet was posted on December 09, 2021.

On November 2, 1947, the Hughes H-4 Hercules prototype made its first and only flight off the coast of San Pedro, California, with Howard Hughes at the controls. The enormous aircraft flew for just over a mile at an altitude of 70 feet for one minute. #WingWendesday #SpruceGoose This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.

Every conceptual portrait of Nimisha Doongarwal’s work takes on a new, abstract identity and tells a unique story by creating visual links to history and contemporary reality. #NimishaDoongarwal #StudentArtSFO This tweet was posted on December 02, 2021.

In 2005 when Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpaper founder Bruce Bradbury retired, Stephen Bauer and his wife Lisa took over the company. Bauer, a gifted illustrator, began apprenticing at @BradburyWall in 1982 at the young age of nineteen. #victorianpaperedwall This tweet was posted on December 03, 2021.

Nimisha Doongarwal collects grouped inventories of fragments—paintings, photographs, fabrics, and digital prints—to create her artwork. Each piece starts with a carefully curated collection of these mixed media. #NimishaDoongarwal #StudentArtSFO This tweet was posted on December 02, 2021.

“Harlem of the West” is a photography exhibition of select images chronicling the nightlife of San Francisco’s Fillmore District in the 1940s and 1950s when it was known as the Harlem of the West. #HarlemoftheWest This tweet was posted on December 03, 2021.

📸: photographs: Hughes H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose); November 2, 1947 Gift of Frank A. Norick 2016.042.023 2016.042.023 This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.

A date which will live in infamy. #OnThisDay #PearlHarbor #Hawaii This tweet was posted on December 07, 2021.