On to the De Young Museum

I could not pass up the opportunity to go to one of my favorite museuems, so after my interview with Professor Luby I went to the De Young Museum.  I had read online about a telecast mini lecture that was going to take place at noon.  So I rushed over and got a front row seat.  The telecast was titled, Google Art Talk:Monuments Men.  A variety of art specialists were giving short talks on the Monuments Men.  Here is a list of the group:

• Melissa Buron, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Beate Fricke, University of California, Berkeley
• Barbara Aikens and Rihoko Ueno, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• Sally Brazil, The Frick Art Reference Library
• Stephen Bury, The Frick Art Reference Library
• Rebecca Rushfield, American Institute for Conservation Oral History Project

Here is a link to the description of the talks:

https://deyoung.famsf.org/calendar/google-art-talk-monuments-men

There is a new movie out that opened Friday, The Monument Men, on the same subject which is about the Allied Troops, primarily American, who salvaged and re-patriated art that was pilfered and stolen by the Nazi's during WWII. 

Information about the movie (plus):

http://www.monumentsmen.com/

Then I went to see the movie with my sister, brother-in-law and niece on Saturday. I do not read reviews, but I heard they were not good, don't read the reviews, just see the movie.  It is really "monumental" that this story has been made into a movie.  Well, of course, it is not 100% accurate but who cares if it is starring Matt Damon and George Clooney. LOL

I think it was the best weekend that I have had in a long time.

More on the Monuments Men:
http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Europa

Books:
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
by Lynn H. Nicholas

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
by Robert M. Edsel

Artwork stolen my the Nazi's is still an issue, here are a couple of interesting articles on some that was just discovered:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24977814

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10437728/Cracking-the-case-of-the-Nazis-stolen-art.html