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This picture shows huge slanting disc-shaped mirror suspended horizontally from a gallery ceiling. Actually the piece is called ‘’Take Your Time’’, which is also the name of exhibition in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

‘’Take’’ put into words an innovation, a sharing. ‘’Your’’ suggest community. ‘’Time’’-we all know about that. Everyone has some of it and nobody has much or enough. Museums are built to freeze time and other things too like ethics and history.

‘’Take Your Time’’ is by Olafur Eliasson who is spectacular artist. In his works door are not doors, waterfalls flow upward, a rotating metal fan, propelled by its own wind power. This is art that teases and even a little humiliates.

Mr. Eliasson’s art is a different kind and deals, some would say, a different kind of activism, a politics of enchantment.In these ways it offers a model for a future art beyond the present rummage-sale glut. In others ways, though, it reminds us how far in the current decade art has not come.

The Conservatory of Flowers, built in 1878, is a gorgeous (and restored in 2003) example of the beautiful greenhouses that were constructed during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries to display exotic plants and flowers. This one is built in a dramatic Victorian style, and is one of the architectural highlights of the golden gate park. Golden Gate Park is over 3 miles long & 9 blocks wide, 1017 acres.

This spectacular living museum is home to more than 2,000 different types of rare and beautiful flowers, including favorites like palms, orchids, and roses. Prominently situated near the eastern end of San Francisco’s famous Golden Gate Park, this stunning Victorian establishment is North America’s oldest existing conservatory. Millions of green-thumb enthusiasts visit the Conservatory of Flowers every year, infusing their lives with fresh, floral fun, and now you can too! Plan to visit this national historic landmark during your upcoming San Francisco vacation and enjoy an afternoon of sweet-smelling satisfaction! The flowers have always had the ability to enhance a seemingly hopeless day. So what better way to start your upcoming San Francisco discount car rental vacation than with a trip to the city’s Conservatory of Flowers!

The building itself is really amazing from the outside, and belies the indoor size a bit. The only downside to wandering around and looking at all those beautiful flowers? It can be pretty humid! Oh well, that’s the jungle for ya! A beautiful, tropical plant-filled greenhouse right in foggy San Francisco. The space is not very large but does the job. This one you can visit for about an hour and still feel like there are new things to discover upon your return. The architecture is odd to me because it seems to be grand from a distance but once you approach it and get close the roofs are actually not that high.