the street at the contemporary jewish museum, they've mounted a companion show on the life of gertrude stein. >> these are two drawings by david levine. >> reporter: as a character, stein was a fascinating study and wanda corn, art professor emeritus at stanford has delved into her life and her friends. >> many of her friendships that need be said were rather short lived because she would quickly move on to another interest, another artist, another project that she was taking on. >> reporter: one friend she did keep was her companion, alice b. toklus. >> gertrude and alice fell in love. eventually alice moved into the apartment of leo and gertrude. it was gertrude who continued to bring artists into the home. >> reporter: but gertrude stein wanted to be more than a collector. >> she liked collecting but after a while, her public image as a patron and a collector bothered her. she wanted to be known the same way picasso was known, for her creative work, not just the collecting of others. >> reporter: stein thought of herself as a writer, whose work, corn contends, has come back into fashion.

gertrude stein will talk about this remarkable person coming up gertrude stein her new book. the cult author is with us. the co-author is with us >> walnut creek with plenty of sunshine and a beautiful forecast. warming up to 95 degrees. and a eventually 97 degrees it will be pretty hot. still warm with 88 at 8:00 p.m. a mixture of 70's. 60 trees through mountain view, 68 in fairfield. this afternoon is really going to be hot. this--63 through mountain view. low 90s along the peninsula. 90's and los gatos. 98 and morgan hill the heat advisory today, tomorrow. definitely stay tight credit, stay cool and stay in the shade. time is 8:45. let us go and check in with jan. >> thank you. this is gertrude stein who was popular with matisse, picasso, and that the list goes on and on. she was an amazing woman absolutely incredible american slashed jewesamerican woman who had a domestic relationship with out and proud of amazing. did this so much for artists. there is a new book called seeing gertrude stein in amazing exhibit. with us is the co-author. ladimir what an amazing picture. h

there is one i want to talk about, "seeing gertrude stein." >> gertrude stein is a local woman.he was raised in oakland. she was an extraordinary individual who helped create -- many people call for the mother of modernism. years ago, i was introduced to someone doing research on her. i thought it would be an extraordinary exposition to take her and understand her at all for complexity. that is what we have on view during the summer of 2011. >> it is full of wonderful drawings, paintings, and sculpture. >> there is incredible art on view. we have photographs. we have sculpture. we have a lot of different things. we have a little something made for her by picasso. there are five different ways of looking at her life. it is not in chronological installation. it is looking at how she is portrayed in help artists, painters, and photographers presented her and how she thought about her own style and presentation. many people think she always had short hair. it was not until she was 52 that she cut off all of her hair. the second element is called "domestic stein." alice b. toklas was

gertrude stein and bernard barrenson. think interesting in terms of the type, there was a letter, hemingway was asked after world war ii, if a lertd of his could be published in which he used the word "kike" and a couple of other expressions and he wrote back to the person who wanted to publish the letter saying you can publish it, but you have to take this language u out because we can never speak this way again. so, he saw that the world had changed with the holocaust and that certain types of language about race and ethnicity had taken on a much deeper, more sinister meanin than they had before. >> mark farcus is our producer for this particular program and we have some thank yous over the next 15 minutes including the folks here at the hemingway home who have opened up their doors over the past three or four days to us. we greatly appreciate using their facilitys to help tell the story of hemingway in the 1920's. mill creek, washington. welcome to c-span. >> caller: thank you. stemming from the time that he spent in a

happened last weekend when the couple was attending an exhibit with the famous lesbian art collector gertrude steine museum says the policy is not theirs. >> and it includes entertainment from the lesbian gay chorus and freedom band, of san francisco. >>> an unfortunate accident in australia will affect the united states. one million dollars worth of wine headed here destroyed. the wine bottles got smashed in a forklift accident. the forklift was loading a 13-ton container of wine at a port for shipment, when it malfunctioned and it caused the 462 cases to drop to the wearhouse floor. the 2010 velvet glove shiaraz going for $198 a bottle was insured. >>> it is not the castro. it is castro valley. celebrating pride. the goal of the teens who organized this rally. >>> temperatures remain on the cool side around the bay. but we have a warmup coming your way. i will have the details coming up next. ,, i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand

director who had been planning an lgbt family day here for months to celebrate an exhibit on gertrude steina famous lesbian artist. they added the hand-holding part later. the inspiration for hand- holding day came from an incident last sunday when a security guard told two women to stop holding hands, he said it wasn't allowed in the museum. the director says the guard was wrong and was immediately removed. >> this is something that goes completely against museum policy, our values, our commitment to diversity. >> it was a teachable moment where we could talk about how homophobia still exists and what that means to people. >> reporter: hand-holding means a thing or two as well. >> it's shows a connection, right. and helps you get through the city and pull each other along when they are walking too slow. >> yeah, exactly. >> i think that hand-holding day should be come an international holiday forsh. there is nobody who doesn't need to have their hand held, including the guard who made the mistake. d vic. black and female a landmark theatre o >> in san francisco, anne mackovic, cbs5. our ro

the museum's director who had been playing a day for here for months to celebrate an exhibit on gertrude stein. they added the hand holding part later. the inspiration came from the incident last sunday when a security guard told two women to stop holding hands. he said it wasn't allowed in the museum. the director said the guard was wrong and was immediately removed. >> this goes completely against museum policy and values and our commitment to diversity. >> reporter: it was a teachable moment. how home phobia still exists and what that manes to foam -- means to people. >> it shows a connection, right and it helps you get through the city and pull each other along when you're walking too slow. >> exactly. >> i think that hand holding day should become an international holiday for everybody. there's nobody who doesn't need to have their hand held. including the guard who made the mistake. >> reporter: in san francisco, anne makovec, cbs5 news. >> tomorrow is the day for the san francisco giants as the reigning world champions, they're scheduled to meet with president obama at the white house a