FEATURED EXHIBITION

Exhibition on view
March 18 - August 30, 2008

A landmark celebration of San Francisco Ballet’s 75 years of excellence, Art & Artifice / 75 Years of Design at San Francisco Ballet examines the role of design in SFB’s continual, imaginative reinventions of itself, which have enabled it to endure as the oldest professional ballet company in the United States.

The history of design at the San Francisco company, founded in 1933 by former Ballets Russes dancer and choreographer Adolph Bolm, tells the story of ballet design in America in microcosm.

The exhibition surveys early influences from the Ballets Russes, Russian artist Leon Bakst, modern American artist Paul Cadmus, stage and film designer Irene Sharaff, European artist and designer Nicholas Georgiadis, and many more.

Curated by Brad Rosenstein, Professor William Eddleman and Melissa Leventon, the exhbition is open free to the public during normal gallery hours.

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

The following exhibitions are also on view at the Museum:

Maestro, Photographic Portraits by Tom Zimberoff
San Francisco Stage 1900
San Francisco in Song
Stars of the Early San Francisco Stage
150 Years of Dance in California