Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Great Artists Steal: Gaultier and "The Cult of Beauty"

Looted

How an eccentric architect with a penchant for pre-Columbian relics rocked the antiquities world and became the de Young Museum's most mysterious donor

Artistic Deception

Membership dues to the de Young museum are funneled into political hyperbole

Secret Rivera

Four decades after it was rescued from a storage shed, Diego Rivera's magnificent City College mural remains a hidden treasure

Abbey's Road

The stones of a 13th-century Spanish monastery lie crumbling in Golden Gate Park, a forgotten legacy of William Randolph Hearst. Trappist monks now hope to resurrect part of what Hearst tore asunder.

McMuseum: The New de Young

The proposed new de Young Museum brings McArchitecture to S.F.

Letters

The proposed new de Young Museum brings McArchitecture to S.F.

COLOR IT GONE

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town