. >> brown: with stein sculptures and pictures at san francisco moma would be worthy of a show even ift the steins of course give a lot of added interest. a across the street at the contemporary jewish museum they have a comannian show on the life of gertrude stein. >> these are two drivers by david levine. >> brown: as a character, stein was a fascinating study and one art professor awe mayor tuesday at stanford and guest curator of this stein show is in her life and friends. >> many friends were rather short-lived because she would quickly move on to another interest, another artist, another project that is she was taking on. >> brown: one friend she did keep was her companion, alice b.toklas, a major feature of this exhibit. >> gertrude and alice fell in love and the they moved into the apartment of leo and gertrude. it was gertrude who continued to bring artists into the home. >> brown: but gertrude stein wanted to be more than a collector. >> they liked collecting but after a while, her public engine as a patron and a collector bothered her. she wanted to be known the same way pic