De Young Museum San Francisco: Spring 2019 Exhibitions

The de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and completed in 2005, is presenting three major exhibitions in spring 2019. The museum, founded in 1895, has a new director, Thomas P. Campbell, formerly of the Met, who replaced Max Hollein. The exhibition 'Between Sign and Subject' features works by California artist Matt Mullican from the 1980s to present, including lithographs, a flag of an imaginary country, backlit works, and chalkboards, exploring his cosmology of symbols and colors. 'Specters of Disruption' (through November 24) is a curatorial project involving six departments, juxtaposing 98 works from the collection to trace patterns of disruption from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley, with themes of fire, mining, the 1906 earthquake, sublime nature, and systemic critique. 'Monet: The Late Years' (through May 27) presents about 60 paintings from 1913 to 1926, focusing on Monet's garden at Giverny, his shift toward abstraction, and his late series including water lilies, Japanese bridge, and weeping willow, culminating in works that prefigure Abstract Expressionism.