On Friday nights, the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. Programs are subject to change.... show more
On Friday nights, the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. Programs are subject to change.
Wilsey Court
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Live music by Afghan Jazz Project, featuring Homayoun Sakhi, Salar Nader, and George Brooks. The program for this evening will feature compositions by George Brooks and Homayoun Sakhi, which are rooted in north Indian classical music while drawing on elements of jazz, western classical, and Dari and Pashto folk music. Sakhi is the outstanding Afghan rubab player of his generation, a brilliant virtuoso endowed with a charismatic musical presence and personality. His artistry demonstrates how an imaginative musician working within a traditional musical idiom can enrich and expand its expressive power while respecting the taste and sensibility passed down from master musicians of the past. Sakhi's personal story illustrates the extraordinarily challenging conditions under which he and his fellow Afghan musicians have pursued their art.
5:00-8:30 p.m.
Henna Tattoos by Henna Garden, for a nominal fee. Drawn freehand, henna tattoos are 100-percent natural, safe, temporary, and painless—a unique way to enhance your body, personality, and spirit. The tattoos last one to three weeks. www.hennagarden.com
5:30-8:45 p.m.
Printmaking demonstrations by Txutxo Perez, inspired by Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on art making for everyone, with “art diva” Kim Erickson. Design a textile square inspired by the special exhibition Amish Abstractions.
Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
Special Lecture: "A Genealogy of the Gaze: Arab Representation in Western Art," by Sana Makhoul. This presentation aims to position the birth of Arab images in Western art within the historical context of the Crusades and the continued proliferation, since the height of European colonialism during 19th century, of the inherent conflict between the cultures. In the 19th century, Western visual images of "Orientals" were overlapped and shrouded by a sundry and sustained package of racial theory, tourism, religious and social programs, and commercial political agendas. These images reflect the hegemony of the colonizers over the colonized. This paper will examine the role of the artists in propogating the Western political agenda, and the binarist dichotomy of their depictions of Eastern culture versus Western culture.
Piazzoni Murals Room
6:00-8:45 p.m.
Islamic calligraphy demonstrations by Nabil Safi. Nabil Safi was born in Damascus, Syria. He learned the art of Arabic calligraphy when he was twelve years old. Most of his teachers in school noticed his good handwriting and encouraged him to go to a special calligraphy college. After college he worked for a newspaper and, eventually, his own office as an Arabic calligraphist in Damascus. In 1983, Safi moved to the United States and continued his calligraphy work while maintaining his musical profession as an oudist and Arabic singer. For the evening, Nabil Safi will write names and Egyptian sayings in the Arabic alphabet for guests to take home. www.total-knowledge.com/nabilsafi.com
Artist Studio/Kimball Education Gallery
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Join Artist-in-Residence Ann Weber in her installation Power, Mystery, and Cardboard. Sculptor Ann Weber transforms the ordinary medium of cardboard into towering shapes, some as high as 16 feet. Museum visitors can observe her in action creating sculptures reminiscent of pods, gourds, and organic spires or try their own hands at creating cardboard sculptures that related to the artwork in the Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art. annwebersculpture.com For more information about Artist Studio, call 415-750-3528 or e-mail cinaba@famsf.org.
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