Friday, June 27, 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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The Pancakes & Booze Art Show

111 Minna Gallery8pm - 2am

The Pancakes & Booze Art Show June 27 & 28 $5 Cover 21+ 8PM-2AM SF's Largest Underground Art Show -Over 100 Emerging Artists -Live Body Painting -ALL-U-CAN-EAT…

Shirzad Sharif Live!

Subterranean Art House8:00pmDoors 7:30pm

Persian Royal Court Pleasure Music will be the mood for the evening's performance as Shirzad performs on his custom made instrument called the…

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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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Soapbox

Berkeley Art Center11am - 5pm, Wednesday - Sunday

Berkeley Art Center challenged artists to submit work that represented the social and political issues that incited change, movement and upheaval.…

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Hidden Treasures in Full View - Flowers and Landscapes by Yvonne Newhouse

Peninsula Art Institute11am - 5pm

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
– John Ruskin. Watercolor painter Yvonne Newhouse brings attention…

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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,…

Italian Street Painting Marin 2014 Pop-Up Gallery

Downtown San Rafael, CAJune 28 10:00AM-9:00PM June 29 10:00AM-6:00PM

Step back in time to the California of the 1940’s with our inaugural Pop-Up Gallery, a FREE event on A Street in downtown San Rafael! From war,…

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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