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Legion of Honor

100 34th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94121 map
cross street: Lincoln Park
district: Richmond (Outer)

Tel. +1 415.863.3330
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About Legion of Honor

The Legion of Honor, San Francisco's most beautiful museum, displays an impressive collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.


Hours
Sunday: 10 am - 5 pm
Monday: closed
Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm
Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am - 5 pm
Friday: 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm
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Editorial Review
Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya Image
Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
Uniting the Esoteric and Commercial
By Nirmala Nataraj (10/09/2004)

" The lures of the ancient Mayan civilization are many. The visual magnificence of surviving artifacts, bas-reliefs, sculpture, vases, beveled mirrors and bowls, and other items signifying luxury run rampant in the culture's surviving relics. However, the esoteric appeal of the civilization, with its extravagant goods, mysterious rituals, architectural sophistication, and ancient cache of symbols, is perhaps the strongest draw for the current exhibition at the Legion of Honor, Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya. "

Editorial Review
Gottfried Helnwein's The Child Image
Gottfried Helnwein's The Child
Innocence Lost
By Nirmala Nataraj (08/15/2004)

" Beyond his treatment of common children's motifs - dolls, toys and ambivalent nymphets- Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein's vision is shrouded in an aura of enigmatic darkness. With his giant color portraits of stillborn babies; paintings that juxtapose Nazi-era photographs with his own images; and pictures of deformed, abjectly countenanced children swathed in bandages, Helnwein is preoccupied with the indelible suffering that mirrors the more delicate aspects of youth. "

Editorial Review
The Photographs of Adi Nes Image
The Photographs of Adi Nes
Life of Israel
By SFS Staff (06/04/2004)

" Adi Ness's striking photographs at the Legion of Honor create an otherworldly portrait of life in Israel. Ness turns the banality of daily life into the monumental. He lights and saturates his giant and elaborately-staged tableaux to reference nearly every iconic image type: classical paintings, films, fashion stills, even photojournalism and war photography. "

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