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The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts was founded in 1998 by Lawrence Rinder. [2] It was originally named the CCAC Institute of Exhibitions and Public Programming, [2] and was renamed is 2002 following the death of Phyllis C. Wattis, a San Francisco cultural philanthropist [3] [4] and the great-granddaughter of Brigham Young.
The United States Capitol. The statue crowning the dome, Statue of Freedom, is over 19 feet tall. Since 1856, the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., has featured some of the most prominent art in the United States, including works by Constantino Brumidi, [1] [2] Vinnie Ream and Allyn Cox.
Anthony 'Tony' Natsoulas (born 1959 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American sculptor and contemporary artist. Numerous galleries and museums such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Monterey Museum of Art, , Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, and the San Jose Museum of Art have exhibited Tony Natsoulas' work in the past; there are several large-scale pieces in public spaces.
City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998), the Supreme Court of the United States holds that the Line Item Veto Act is unconstitutional. Microsoft releases Windows 98 (First Edition). June 28 – In professional wrestling, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
Inside/Out: New Chinese Art was an exhibition held 15 September 1998 to 3 January 1999 held in association with Asia Society and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [1] The exhibition was presented simultaneously at Asia Society in New York and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1).
Bernice Bing (10 April 1936 – 18 August 1998) was a Chinese American lesbian artist involved in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene in the 1960s. [1] [2] She was known for her interest in the Beats and Zen Buddhism, and for the "calligraphy-inspired abstraction" in her paintings, which she adopted after studying with Saburo Hasegawa.
The United States Capitol is at the center of the grid, and the point at which the city is divided into four quadrants. Depending on one's relation to the Capitol, one is either in Northeast D.C., Southeast D.C., Southwest D.C., or Northwest D.C. L'Enfant's plan called for the President's House and Capitol to be near the center of the city. [5] [6]
San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California. Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city's Civic Center , it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917.