Thursday 5/23 @ de Young Museum
Get ready, San Francisco: the original Netherlandish mystery girl is headed to the de Young, accompanied by over 200 drawings and paintings from Rembrandt's century (that would be the 17th, just FYI). Lent by the legendary Hague museum for the first time in over three decades, these works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and their contemporaries render the natural world of their day in all its glory, from the gritty lithographic detail of a mottled mollusk shell to the sweeping gold and grey-blue of a sun-drenched Flemish wheatfield.
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Today @ de Young Museum
Get ready, San Francisco: the original Netherlandish mystery girl is headed to the de Young, accompanied by over 200 drawings and paintings from Rembrandt's century (that would be the 17th, just FYI). Lent by the legendary Hague museum for the first time in over three decades, these works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and their contemporaries render the natural world of their day in all its glory, from the gritty lithographic detail of a mottled mollusk shell to the sweeping gold and grey-blue of a sun-drenched Flemish wheatfield.
Today @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
An L.A. kid born and raised, Kehinde Wiley has taken the study of swagger to time-traveling, cross-cultural heights. Inspired by the patriarchs of portraiture — Joshua Reynolds, John Constable and co. — whose works lined the galleries of L.A.'s Huntington Library, Wiley's large-scale paintings serve as naturalistic documentation of 21st-century alpha males and the lurid, splashy world in which we all live. Wiley's current exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, The World Stage: Israel, showcases men of every possible Israeli iteration against the backdrop of eye-catching abstractions culled from traditional Jewish designs found on legal and religious documents.
