as jackson pollock said when somebody said he should sell the -- study nature he argued, i am nature. you cannot draw a credible and boundary between people and nature, so i support a huge population of sparrows and warblers, beautiful and rare birds. there are chickadees, a flock of 25 goldfinches, and they are all there right now. my daughter move in when she was about eight months old. my son was born in park merced. we will not been able -- we will not be able to replace a place where children can play it safe of traffic. >> i am a jr. of high school, and i have lived with my family in an apartment in part of merced for 14 years. my brother was born and raised in our first house in park merced, and we were both raised in a wonderful environment. we spent most of our time growing in a spacious backyard. i grew up with some children who have become my best friends, and i do my homework with the birds, and i think it is outrageous to deny other children that of bringing by moving them into a crowded new -- that upbringing by moving them into a crowded apartments. i wonder what will h

the jackson pollock exhibition in 1945 is a perfect example of that. our founding director was deeply interested in abstraction and was engaged in dialogue with the guggenheim about bringing the jackson pollack showed to the west coast. the original price for the painting, $750. are directors thought that was too much of a stretch before the board of trustees, so she convinced them to reduce the price to firefighter dollars. it was just -- to $500. it was what was needed to persuade the board. it is a very subjective history of art. it has been very much shaped by the individuals involved with the museum over the years. in 1935, would start with the gallery with works that came in through albert bender, one of our founding trusties. when we opened our doors in 1935, 181 of the 186 pieces in our permanent collection had been gifted. >> what are the names that pop out as the museum evolved? >> we have another gallery that looks at the theories that the museum has since the late 1980's. we focus on a particular aspect of that program that developed under

the night we were there, jackson pollock and franz kline were having a conversation of the our come and andy warhol and john cage dined at a nearby table. not that bobby noticed. he just liked the food the restaurant served. it was a shepherd's pie kind of place, and the anonymity that came from sitting among the people who preferred gawking at art celebrities rather than taking note at chess prodigies. we slid into the third booth from the bar and ordered bottles of beer, brown for bobby and heineken for me. the waitress didn't question bodies age even though he had just turned 17 and wasn't legally old enough to drink in new york state. 18, as you remember, some of your old enough to remember, was the limit at that time. but he looked like he was 18. bobby new this election without looking at the menu. he tackled an enormous slab of roast prime rib which he consumed in a matter of minutes. if he was -- if he were a heavyweight boxer is enjoying his last meal before the big fight. he just received and he didn't like it and so forth. during a lull when the conversation -- lulls were typ

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the night we rather jackson pollock and friends were having a conversation at the bar and andy warhol and john cage dined at a nearby table. not that bobby noticed. he just liked to pump food the restaurant served. was a shepherd's pie kind of place and the anonymity that came from sitting among people who preferred gawking at art celebrities rather than taking note of chess prodigies. we slid into the third. from the bar and ordered bottles of beer. the waitress didn't question his age even though he had just turned 17 and wasn't legally old enough to drink in new york state's. some of the world enough to remember that 18 was the limit at the time. but he looked like he was 18. bobby new the selection without looking at the menu. he tackles and enormous slab of roast prime rib which he consumed in a matter of minutes. if he were a heavyweight boxer enjoying his last meal before the big fight. he just received in the mail that he didn't like it so much. during a lull in the conversation which was typical because you weren't embarrassed by long silences, i asked our you going to prepar