I’m in San Francisco for a computer conference, and the sessions are packed with good stuff I want to learn more about. But this morning on the way to the conference center I walked past three museums on the same block that I am dying to go to: The Cartoon Art Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the SFMOMA.
All my siblings and I can quote old New Yorker cartoons to each other (“Milk’s boiling over!”, “Watch out, Fred, here it comes again!”, “Guess what? I’m barefoot”, etc.). We read our parents cartoon books (This Petty Pace, the New Yorker Book of Cartoons 1925-1950, George Price and Helen Hokinson anthologies, and more) over and over again. I’ve only ever been to one other cartoon museum. So I have to go.
Then on a much darker note, our forebears were intimately and powerfully involved in the African diaspora as slave traders. So I have to go to that museum too.
As for the SFMOMA, well, I just like that stuff.
These are all just one block over from the convention center. Maybe I can go in dribbles.
Please, please, please post on the museums when you go! Often the best way to go to museums is in dribbles; then you don’t get museumhead.
Sounds as though you might need to extend your stay in SF! So glad the conference is proving worthwhile.
SFMOMA is fabulous. Small and totally doable without overload.
Also grab a snack there!!!!!!!!