LINKS to CURRENT SHOWS and more:
MUSEUMS/San Francisco:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) close to Montgomery St. Bart Station
FRIDA KAHLO at SFMOMA through September 28 see Kenneth Baker review
American Painting at De Young Museum, San Francisco
European Painting at Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
MUSEUMS/South Bay:
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
San Jose Museum of Art (Goya's Caprichos: Dreams of Reason and Madness)
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
MUSEUMS/East Bay:
Berkeley Art Museum (Rip.Mix.Burn - also - Goya: Disasters of War)
Also at Berkeley Art Museum: Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia see SF Chronicle review
GALLERIES/San Francisco: (all close to Montgomery St. Bart Station)
Jack Fischer Gallery
(represents sjsu faculty: Gina Pearlin, Emma Harris-Sintamarian)
Patricia Sweetow
(represents sjsu faculty: Gale Antokal)
Rena Bransten
(represents sjsu faculty: Rupert Garcia)
GALLERIES/off the beaten track
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
ARTISTS: (images/timelines for artists discussed in class)
Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Web Gallery of Art (searchable database of European art - large images)
Timeline of western philosophy/art/music (This is a work in progress.)
SJSU Foundations Website (This is the site for our core program in art at SJSU - Readings & Images section)
POP CULTURE - art & artists in popular media:
Lust for Life (1956 about Van Gogh)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1956 about Michelangelo)
Vincent & Theo (1990 about Van Gogh's relationship with his brother)
The Horse's Mouth (1958 about a painter)
Pollock (2000)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (fiction about Vermeer)
Impromptu (1991 fiction involving a group of artists, musicians, writers including Delacroix)
Hasan Elahi (SJSU Digital Media faculty) on Colbert Report May 7 2008 (http://elahi.sjsu.edu/)
Movies by painters:
Johnny Mnemonic 1995 movie by painter, Robert Longo based on William Gibson short story. He also did a "Tales from the Crypt" and an R.E.M music video.
Office Killer 1997 black comedy/horror movie by photographer Cindy Sherman
Basquiat 1986 movie about Jean Michelle Basquiat by painter Julian Schnabel
Before Night Falls (Antes Que Anochezca) 2000, by Julian Schanbel about Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990)
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly 2007, Schnabel's latest movie
