Hamilton, San Francisco, May 15, 2019

So here's the thing about Hamilton: I didn't listen to it when it first became big, and then I had that "well now it's popular and I don't want to listen to it" resistance to it. Last year, one of the local dance studios did their recital around a traveling through history theme, and their piece for the Revolutionary War was set to the "Here comes the General" bit from "Right Hand Man." It was incredible, and my mom turned to me between that and the next piece and said, "See? That's why I want to go see Hamilton." She waited in digital line for many hours when tickets went on sale, and we went to see it on Wednesday.

We both loved it. ( Many more words about it. )

SFMOMA, May 16, 2019

My mom and I stayed overnight in San Francisco after we saw Hamilton, and in the morning we went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) before we came home. This was my choice; my mom originally asked if I wanted to go see the Monet exhibit at the de Young, and while I sort of felt like I should be into it because Monet is a great artist, it's just not my thing, so I suggested SFMOMA if she hadn't been there too recently. The day we went was the first day of the member preview of the Andy Warhol exhibit. My mom is a member, and every staff person we encountered was at least mildly confused that we weren't seeing the Warhol exhibit. I'm not that into Warhol. If my mom had really wanted to see it, we would have gone, but she and my dad have plans to go see it this summer so I didn't feel bad about skipping it.

I got to choose what we saw, because my mom goes more frequently than I do (San Francisco is close enough to do a long day trip to a museum, and she has an artist friend who has a condo in the East Bay who she goes to art things with). Here are some highlights:

( Art notes )