Downtown San Francisco

Pauline and I took the BART into SF this morning to meet Peter for lunch. The second Mexican meal of my visit, this time in a busy lunchtime restaurant in the heart of the financial district –I  recommend the Nopales (cactus) Prawn Burrito and the beer.

We spent the afternoon looking at the 75 year Anniversary Show in the SF Museum of Modern Art and some large scale sculptures in the roof garden. There was work by Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, Picasso, and this Andy Warhol self portrait.

The outside roof sculptures were refreshed by a rain shower while we sat with coffee admiring this multi-spider.

 

In the atrium two large murals show the estates of Presidents Washington and Jefferson with obscured images of plantation slaves.

Downtown SF is, unsurprisingly, a mass of skyscrapers; shiny, stately, and sometimes ugly, for me this building was the star on our route today.