MOMA and Mission District Festival

This weekend I headed out solo on Saturday to explore the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (MOMA-SF) which was housing a special exhibit of Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams works. As a budding photographer, I was very interested in the Adams exhibit and spent a great deal of time examining his photographs and watching a long documentary on his life. I don't have any pictures of these particular exhibits- no cameras allowed!!! Here's a picture of a photographer though (heh).




I'm also always a big fan of sculpture- especially sculptor that's perched on the wall!



And of course, the typical modern art exhibit of strange and unusual things- this time it's a baby surrounded by poodles.



It was a good museum- 5 stories high and not overly crowded. Not as good as MOMA-Massachusettes. I'm a big fan of room size exhibits. This felt more like a typical art museum, but with some strange thoughtful stuff mixed in. I liked the shadow boxes too- but no pictures of them. I could spend another afternoon there and see the stuff I failed to linger at.

Sunday Lisa and I headed to the Mission district for a festival. The Mission district is latino and artsy with beautiful murals defining the streets.



No festival is complete without Aztec dancers praying over it! The streets were closed down for the festival and we dodged bike riders and skateboarders and skaters. People were playing four-square and frisbee down the middle of the streets. Musicians were set up on many corners attracting a crowd. People were out collecting signatures for Prop 8. There was even an area called "Freedom from Training Wheels" where bike club folks were removing children's training wheels and teaching them how to balance on a portion of a closed street. It was really a lovely little festival.



After walking around and absorbing the festival, including some wonderful people watching, we ate at a local place and headed to the park nearby. A few other people had the same idea....