Thursday, April 23, 2015

More Than your Selfie

NUMU MuseumWednesday 1pm-5pm Thursday 11am-8pm Friday 11am-5pm Saturday 11am-5pm Sunday 11am-5pm

The selfie is an ancient medium of art that only recently has been trivialized. Rembrandt painted himself throughout his life, capturing the…

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Shifting Currents: Highlights from the 20th-Century Chinese Collection

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am -5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

The Cantor's Asian collection features works in a variety of media. With especially strong holdings of Chineseand Japanese art, the collection…

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Promised Land: JACOB LAWRENCE at the Cantor. A Gift from the Kayden Family

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am - 5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

This exhibition features an exceptional group of 56 works by the 20th-century American artist, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), and one by his spouse,…

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Drama of Heaven and Earth: The Theatrical Traditions of Japan

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am -5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

During medieval and early-modern times, the Japanese theatrical art of Noh developed from a form of popular performance to the solemn, abstract…

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Imagining the Oceans

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

Ocean environments have nourished the imagination of visual artists across history and cultures, yielding a dramatic spectrum of influential…

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American Battleground: Photographs of the Civil War, 1861-1865

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

Photography was invented in France more than two decades before the Civil War erupted in America. By the 1860s, visual culture and fine art…

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Arboreal Architecture: A Visual History of Trees

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

From the earliest stages of human history, trees have provided resources for civilization, symbolic structure to families, spatial logic for…

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Bravo!: Music and Theater in Enlightenment Europe

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

Patronage for acting and music flourished across Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Monarchs and city governments sponsored…

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Interaction of Color: Josef Albers Highlights from the Marmor Collection

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

Over the last decade, the Marmor family and its Foundation have given the Cantor approximately 200 contemporary artworks, primarily prints.…

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She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World

Cantor Arts Center11 AM-5 PM, Thurs until 8 PM, CLOSED TUESDAY

This exhibition introduces the pioneering work of 12 leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world. Their provocative work ranges…

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Saratoga and the 1915 Pan Pacific Exposition--100 Year Centennial

Saratoga Historical Museum1:00-4:00 PM

A new exhibit—Saratoga and the 1915 Pan Pacific Exposition—100 Year Centennial opens February 13 at the Saratoga History Museum. The Panama–Pacific…

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The Printer’s Eye: Ukiyo-e from the Grabhorn Collection Feb. 20–May 10, 2015

Asian Art Museum10:00am-5:00pm

The Printer’s Eye introduces 88 works from the Grabhorn Collection, which was donated to the Asian Art Museum in 2005. Ukiyo-e, or “pictures…

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LIGHTSWARM

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)Wed & Sun: 12noon-6pm, Thu-Sat: 12noon-8pm

Designed by the San Francisco-based experimental architecture firm Future Cities Lab, Lightswarm, a stunning and dazzling wall installation…