The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is in the midst of a huge expansion, mostly to house the collection of Donald Fisher, who bequeathed it to the museum on his deathbed in 2009.
On Wednesday afternoon, there was a public celebration of the "Topping Out" of the construction...
...with the highest beam put into place on the new building which is scheduled to open in Spring of 2016.
I was hoping the event would be taking place at the construction site itself, but instead it was half a block away in Jessie Square in front of the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
There were free, SFMOMA On-The-Go branded binoculars for the crowd...
...and dull speeches from Neal Benezra, SFMOMA's director...
...along with Charles Schwab above, a major donor for the project...
...and fawning remarks by Mayor Ed Lee to the billionaire Republicans who were sitting in the front row.
Waiting for the formalities to be over so they could start playing music was the Balboa High School Band...
...and a samba reggae troupe called Batalá San Francisco.
Yeah, "let them eat cake"--er, "give 'em a toy pair of Chinese binoculars".
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