With all due respect to the musical The Sound of Music, one of whose songs contained lyrics bastardized in the title of this post, we must bid adieu to the Summer of Steins in San Francisco. Both exhibitions SEEING GERTRUDE STEIN: FIVE STORIES at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and THE STEINS COLLECT: MATTISE, PICASSO AND THE PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE at SFMOMA end tomorrow, September 6th. And though both of them will be travelling, the first to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC from October 14th – January 22nd, 2012 and the other one to both Paris at the Grand Palais from October 3rd – January 16, 2012 and then the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from February 21 through June 3, 2012, the Summer of Steins in San Francisco will not be able to be replicated as the Fall, Winter or Spring of Steins in any of the other cities – this summer was just too special!
the movie Von Trapps bid their adieus!
