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Opening of New de Young Features Bi-Level Museum Store and New Institutional Publications
3/1/2005 San Francisco, March 1, 2005--The new de Young Museum Store will open to the public on August 15, 2005, two months in advance of the Museum’s grand opening on October 15, 2005. Visitors will be treated to a uniquely designed, two-level museum store that features a wide range of new and relevant publications. The de Young Museum Store is a nonprofit retailer with a special focus on education; all of its revenues directly support the museum. Its primary objectives are twofold: to earn income that helps to sustain the museum’s programs and exhibitions, and to educate visitors through the sale of items that complement the collections and exhibitions. The Museum Store places particular emphasis on its broad assortment of art history books, which directly fulfill its educational mission; the titles offered for sale are specially chosen to enhance visitors’ understanding of the collections. The store also offers a stunning selection of objects that reflect an overview of global cultures and their arts and crafts. Visitors to the store will encounter a diverse mix of innovative and traditional items, ranging from organic and hand-painted ceramics by San Francisco artisans to traditional textiles realized in contemporary designs from Africa, India, and South America.
The retail space, designed by Charles Sparks & Co., will have entrances on the ground floor adjacent to the Diane B. Wilsey and Alfred S. Wilsey Court (the main gathering space inside the building) and on the lower level across from the Koret Auditorium. A Special Exhibition store, located on the lower level of the museum, will offer items specially chosen to complement the de Young’s temporary exhibitions, beginning with the inaugural showing of Daughter of Re: Hatshepsut, King of Egypt. On the ground floor, the store will offer design objects, jewelry, home and office accessories, and apparel from around the world. The lower level will feature a wide range of art books and museum publications, educational children’s books and toys, posters, prints, and stationery related to the museum’s collections. The store will also debut signature lines of products developed exclusively for the de Young by local, national, and international artists and designers. These select items are based on the building’s unique architectural design (by award-winning Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron) and the permanent collections.
The de Young Museum Store will be open during regular museum hours. Entrance
to the stores does not require paid admission to the museum. Prior to the Museum’s grand opening, the Museum Store will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday.
Publications
A number of museum publications will debut along with the new de Young in October. The first four titles are specifically intended to complement the museum’s opening; others celebrate past and future exhibitions of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The following titles, which feature an exceptional mix of noted authors and contributors, are scheduled for release:
The de Young in the 21st Century: A Museum by Herzog & de Meuron
Author/editor: Diana Ketcham, with contributions by Michael Corbett and Mitchell Schwarzer.
Co-publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York and London
Projected specs:
10 x 12 in.
240 pages
Up to 200 color and 50 b/w images
Projected retail prices: Cloth $60.00; paper $29.95
Masterworks of American Paintings at the de Young (tentative title)
Authors/Curators: Timothy Anglin Burgard, Daniell Cornell, Isabel Breskin, Amanda Glesmann, Elizabeth Leavy, Kevin Muller
Projected specs:
9 x 12 in.
ca. 400 pages
More than 200 color images, ca. 50 b/w
Projected retail prices: Cloth $55; paper $35
de Young: Selected Works
Author: Renée Dreyfus
Co-publisher: Scala Publishers, London and New York
Projected specs:
7 x 9 in.
160 pages
125 color images
Projected retail price: Paper $14.95
New Guinea Art: Masterpieces of the Jolika Collection from Marcia and John Friede
Authors: Philippe Peltier, Dirk Smidt, Robert Welsch; with an introduction by John Friede and foreword by Harry S. Parker III
Photographs by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler
Co-publisher: 5 Continents Editions, Milan
Projected specs:
9 x 12 in., two-volume, cloth in slipcase
Vol. I, 630 pages; Vol. II, 160 pages
1,250 illustrations, including 650 in color
Retail price: $125.00
OTHER PUBLICATIONS, 2005–2006
Artwear: Fashion and Anti-fashion
Exhibition dates: Legion of Honor, May 14–October 30, 2005
Author: Melissa Leventon
Co-publisher: Thames & Hudson, London and New York
Specs:
9 x 12 in.
160 pages
ca. 200 color images
Retail price: Paper $29.95
Legion of Honor: Selected Works
Author Renée Dreyfus
Co-publisher; Scala Publishers, London and New York
Projected specs:
7 x 9 in.
160 pages
125 color images
Projected retail price: Paper $14.95
R. Crumb and Art History
Exhibition dates: Legion of Honor, February 2007–May 2007
Author: Robert Flynn Johnson plus yet-to-be determined Introduction author
Specs and retail price as yet undecided
After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Publication accompanying an exhibition: Legion of Honor, March 4–June 4, 2006
Mark Klett, with Michael Lundgren
Essays by Philip L. Fradkin and Rebecca Solnit and interview with the photographer by Karin Breuer
Publisher: University of California Press, with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Specs and retail price not available
Ruth Asawa, Knit Together
Exhibition catalogue: de Young, November 18, 2006–January 28, 2007
Author(s): Daniell Cornell and other authors to be decided
Specs and retail price not available
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