Photo by Gilles Martin-Raget
In honor of their new Impressionists on the Water exhibition that opens this weekend, the Legion of Honor will have a special item on display this Sunday: the America’s Cup trophy.
A little history on the impressive trophy:
In the more than 150 years since that first race off England, only four nations have won what is often called the “oldest trophy in international sport.” For some perspective, consider that there had been nine contests for the America’s Cup before the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896.
The America’s Cup trophy onhealthy buying adderall will be on display on Sunday only, from 9:30am to 5:15pm, in the Legion’s Gallery 12 (on loan from its current home at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Yacht Club).
Come by to see the trophy up close and have your photo taken with it. Then don’t miss the Impressionists on the Water exhibit, celebrating pleasure boating and competition, and featuring more than 80 paintings and works on paper by Impressionists such as Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro and Post-Impressionists such as Maurice Denis and Paul Signac.
Sarah B.
The America’s Cup is now a money show, with each one of those boats costing nearly $100M to build. It’s an absurd morphing of what used to be a fairly wealthy-person’s sport, with true international interest, to an ego-laden procession led this year by one of the world’s greatest egotists, Oracle’s Larry Ellison. Why are our tax dollars being used to help a guy who’s down to his last $40BILLION, and who is also listed as the 5th richest man on Earth?
The World’s Cup, this year, has turned out to be a fiasco of the highest order. If I spend any time watching the America’s Cup, it will be with a sign in my hands that decries the waste of public money and time that Ellison’s clown show and Ed Lee’s fawning enthusiasm has spawned.