de Young Museum
Building in San Francisco, United States.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion | Jenny Odell | setting | The author lectures docents while the museum shows Hockney’s Seven Yorkshire Landscapes; docents report that visitors then saw the nearby San Francisco Botanical Garden anew, in slow, broken-up textur |
How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell (2019)
Source: How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion · How to Do Nothing · Readwise highlight
I was asked to give a lecture on David Hockney to docents at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
- Role: setting
- In the book: The author lectures docents while the museum shows Hockney’s Seven Yorkshire Landscapes; docents report that visitors then saw the nearby San Francisco Botanical Garden anew, in slow, broken-up textures.
- Why it matters: The museum-to-garden anecdote shows art acting as an ‘attentional prosthesis’ that carries into the surrounding environment.