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

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.

and an enormous amount as you know has been written about the 1920s and the '30s, gertrude stein and f. scott fitzgerald. i think that -- i've been thinking a lot about this idea and this point of view. i think that history, as you know, is much more just politics and social issues. it's also medicine, science and art, music, theater and poetry and ideas. and we shouldn't run things into categories. it's all part of the same thing. and one of the most interesting characters in this study that you've done is oliver wendell homes, sr., who spent his whole life -- devoting his whole life on medical science. he was on the harvard medical school board for many years and a very prominent physician to the medical school. there was no incongruity and he also wrote poetry and essays and helped start a magazine called "the atlantic monthly." it's all part of it. and i think that's the way history ought to be taught and i think it ought to be the way it's written. it's the way i would like to think myself more about as time goes on. my own life, i at one point i thought i wanted to be a painter