How about checking out the Olmec exhibit? The Olmec are best known for the creation of colossal heads carved from giant boulders. Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico features more than 100 objects drawn primarily from Mexican national collections with additional loans from more than 25 museums. The exhibit runs through May 8, 2011.
Considered the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica and recognized as America’s oldest civilization, the people known today as the Olmec developed an artistic style as early as the second millennium BC. Included in the exhibition are colossal heads, a large-scale throne and monumental stela, in addition to small-scale vessels, figures, adornments,and masks. Olmec brings together new finds and monuments that have rarely been seen by American audiences. Get down to de Young now!
Admission to Olmec is $25 adults, $22 seniors 65+, $21 students with current ID, $15 youth 6–17, and free for members and children 5 and under. There is a $5 discount for purchasing tickets in advance.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have acquired two major paintings for the American galleries at the de Young Museum: Migration (1947) an early work by Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), one of America’s most important Social Realist artists, and Two Bathers (1958) by David Park (1911–1960), the pioneering Bay Area Figurative artist.
