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Profile: San Francisco's de Young Museum
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NPR Morning Edition
03-21-2000
Profile: San Francisco's de Young Museum
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
BOB EDWARDS, host:
Three damaged paintings missing for more than 20 years are on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Curators decided to exhibit the damaged works before restoring them as a way of attracting attention and visitors and building on the de Young's already colorful history. From San Francisco, Lau...
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Along came Dede: the de Young Museum needed $180 million to survive--so Dede Wilsey went out and got it.(EYE)
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; On the evening of June 2, 1998, there was despair in the offices of the de Young Museum. The citizens of San Francisco had for a second time in 19 months refused to approve a $90 million bond issue to rebuild the museum, which had been irreparably damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Once
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The de Young Is... DeLovely; A daring, dazzling museum puts San Francisco on the map for design lovers. And what a view from the top.(de Young Museum, San Francisco, California)
Newsweek
; Byline: Cathleen McGuigan If you go to the top of the tower that rises out of San Francisco's stunning new de Young Museum, you can see for miles. You can see the Marin headlands and the downtown high-rises; on a clear day you can see the Pacific. You can look down, too, onto the main part of the
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FAMILY FEUD.(San Francisco Chronicle)
American Journalism Review
; ... morning of August 6, McEvoy--very much alive--received devastating news. The board of directors of Chronicle Publishing Co. had ratified ... They called it the Daily Dramatic Chronicle, filled it with news of the theater and passed it out for free in salons and reading ...
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A new San Francisco cultural landmark replaces a quake-damaged museum.(SPOTLIGHT)
The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA)
; Byline: Donald Munro The Fresno Bee SAN FRANCISCO -- Earthquakes always come with aftershocks. This one just took a little longer than most: 16 years. The shock, really, is how radically different the new de Young museum is compared to the beloved old structure, which was damaged in the 1989 Loma
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The de Young Museum enters the 21st century with a fresh look and attitude New spin on a classic
Oakland Tribune
; If you've been visiting the de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park since childhood, the new version is going to take some getting used to. But it's a getting-to-know-you process museum curators and supporters are banking on to be an enjoyable experience, one that will keep long-time
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