Friday, June 20, 2014

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Within and Without: Transformations in Chinese Landscapes

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs until 8pm

Closed Mon & Tues through 9/21, then only closed Tues. The landscape, the most prominent painting tradition in China, brings with it more than…

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Inside Rodin's Hands: Art, Technology, and Surgery

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs. until 8pm

Closed Monday & Tuesday. Dr. James Chang, an internationally renowned hand reconstruction surgeon at Stanford, has long been fascinated by Rodin’s…

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Artists Observe Nature, 1600-1800

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, closed Mon & Tues

Closed MON & TUES through 9/21, then only closed TUES. After 1600, it became increasingly common for draftsmen and printmakers to study nature…

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Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums

Cantor Arts Center11 am-5pm, Thurs until 8 pm

Closed Monday and Tuesday. This exhibition of 83 photographic prints by Carleton Watkins—perhaps America's most influential 19th-century landscape…

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Mapping Edo: The Social and Political Geography of Early Modern Japan

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs ’til 8pm

Closed Monday and Tuesday. Experience Edo-period Japan (1615–1868) through archival maps, prints, and paintings of the capital and surrounding…

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Night, Smoke, and Shadows: The Presence of Atmosphere in the 19th Century

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs ’til 8pm

Closed Mon & Tues through 9/21, then only closed TUES. Many artists active in the 19th century manipulated the appearance of atmosphere in…

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American Photographs: A Cultural History

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, Thurs until 8pm

OPEN JULY 4, 11 am - 5 pm. Closed Mon and Tues. Alexander Nemerov, the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor of Arts and Humanities,…

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FREMONT UNDERGROUND Social Experience

Town Fair Shopping Center6:00pm–10:00pm

FUSE is a new series of events to bring artists, performers and indie retailers to showcase, exhibit and make their art & creative products…

3rd Saturday Guided Gallery District Tour: Travel + Documentation

Classic Cars West2pm - 4pmtour will begin at 2pm

Join us for a free guided walking tour of one of Oakland Art Murmur’s gallery districts. The tour meets at 2:00pm and is led this month by…

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Free Guided Gallery District Tour Exploring Travel + Documentation

Classic Cars West2pm - 4pmtour will begin at 2pm

Join us for a free guided walking tour of one of Oakland Art Murmur’s gallery districts. The tour meets at 2:00pm and is led this month by…

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"Synthesis"

Secession Art and Design12-7pm

Synthesis is a two person exhibition of new works from San Francisco-based artists Molly McGrath and Jonathan Koshi. In this show, Secession…

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Fire & Water (and Wine!) Aia Lä `O Pele on Treasure Island

VIE Winery6pm

A very special event at VIE Winery on Treasure Island. Enjoy great wine outside by the bay. Watch some fire dancing, or do some dancing yourself…

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Alicia McCarthy + Jenny Sharaf

Johansson Projects3-5pm

Johansson Projects presents new works by Alicia McCarthy and Jenny Sharaf in which repetition reigns and pretty things come rough around the…

The Skull Show

Bedford Gallery12:00-5:00pm

The Skull Show examines the role that skulls have played in the historical register as memento mori and religious icons. This exhibition also…

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Spaces in Between

Dolby Chadwick GalleryT-F 10-6, S 11-5

The lyrical geometry undergirding Frank’s paintings is a means for expressing the Japanese concept of ma, or the space between objects and events…

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SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot

Oakland Museum of California11am-5pm, till 9pm on Fri

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of groundbreaking alternative art and culture magazine Giant Robot, OMCA features the major exhibition,…

Color Shift

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

One of the most influential artist-educators of the twentieth century, Josef Albers (1888–1976) taught innovative courses at the Bauhaus in…

Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Forrest Bess (1911–1977) described himself as a visionary artist. His small but powerful abstract paintings, with their thick paint and handmade…

Cosmos Codex

M.A.C.L.A. (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana)Wednesday-Thursday 12-7 and Friday-Saturday 12-5.

COSMOS CODEX is a commissioned, site-specific work by artist Vargas-Suarez UNIVERSAL. This is MACLA’s first art exhibition dedicated to the…

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Brooklyn Bridge

George Lawson Gallery - Potrero Hill12-6pm

For exhibit 39 we are pleased to present Brooklyn Bridge, a group show of fourteen contemporary Brooklyn painters, guest curated by painter…

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