Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

One hundred years ago, the photographer Lewis Hine travelled to mills and factories in New England and the South, photographing child laborers.…

Figuration/Abstraction: Highlights from the Collection

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

One of the questions posed by "Figuration/Abstraction" is this: "Isn’t all art an abstraction of what it represents, to a greater or lesser…

Edward Hopper: New York Corner

Cantor Arts Center11AM-5PM, closed Tuesdays

Edward Hopper pioneered an American impressionism that captured the essence of streetside life in New York City during the early 20th century.…

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Into the Forest: Landscape as Subject and Studio in 19th-Century France

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm Wed-Mon, Thurs until 8pm. CLOSED TUESDAY

This installation of prints, drawings, and photographs explores how French artists depicted the landscape in the modern age and approached making…

Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed

Cantor Arts Center11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY

This exhibition presents the sketchbooks of celebrated 20th-century painter Richard Diebenkorn—Stanford’s most accomplished and recognized…

Showing Off: Identity and Display in Asian Costume

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

Fashion is a form of language. What we wear broadcasts critical information about us and serves as a visible indicator of social rank, profession,…

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Tabaimo: Her Room

San Jose Museum of Art11am-5pm

Imagine these ever-changing environments: Apartment buildings open to reveal the very private and sometimes strange lives of their occupants;…

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$2 Brews & Blues featuring Ron Thompson and Sid Morris

Poor House Bistro6pm - 9pm

Our $2 Brews & Blues event features local blues artists along with a variety of brew from a different brewery each week. This week's brew:…

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Flash

Saratoga Foothill Club7:30pm

Those who are old enough will remember when computers filled entire rooms. Many of those just entering college may not recall a time when iPods…

Multiplicity: Portraiture in the Cantor's Photography Collection

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thurs until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

Using multi-image formats to represent the mutability of psychological states, social status, and public personae, the photographic works in…

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Madama Butterfly

Lucie Stern Theatre & Community CenterMay 20, 22, 25, 28, 29; Fri, Sat: 8pm; Wed: 7:30pm; Sun: 2pm

Giacomo Puccini took too long to write this opera, giving his company too little time to rehearse and culminating in a disastrous premiere.…

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I and You

City Lights Theater CompanyThu-Sat at 8pm Sun at 2pm

Walt Whitman blew up what qualified as poetry. The bearded savant's long loping lines of verse rejected the rigidity of typical constructions…

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Spring in Plaza de Cesar Chavez

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Come to beautiful Cesar Chavez Park to grab a bite to eat from local food trucks and enjoy lunch or dinner at a table and chair in the park,…

Mark Kurlansky, Best selling author of "Cod" "Salt" & "Paper: Paging Through History"

Oshman Family Jewish Community Center7:00 p.m. Program; 8:00 p.m. Book Signing

For the past two millennia, paper has been one of the simplest pieces of human technology. It has formed the foundation of civilizations and…

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Intimate Frontiers: The Male Gaze in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

Cantor Arts Center11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY

"Intimate Frontiers" is a new exhibition that explores the social and domestic world of women through the eyes of prominent male artists in…

Flash: How Silicon Valley Enabled Mobile Computing

Saratoga Foothill Club7:30 PM

Flash: How Silicon Valley Enabled the Mobile Computing Revolution The Saratoga Historical Foundation will present a lecture discussing the…

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Beyond the Frame: Curating in Context

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

This self-guided, walking exhibition encourages viewers to think actively about the settings in which they experience particular works of art…

Blood in the Sugar Bowl

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thurs until 8pm, CLOSED TUESDAY

This exhibition focuses on sugar plantation slavery during the peak of the sugar trade, the late 18th–mid-19th century. On display are sugar…

Foothill College Summer Registration

Foothill College12:15 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.

Begin a specialized career certificate or associate degree, or upgrade your current job skills by enrolling in summer courses at Foothill College.…

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The Wonder of Everyday Life: Dutch Golden Age Prints

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

While the Dutch Republic experienced unprecedented economic prosperity in the 17th century, printmakers were exceptionally sensitive—and sometimes…