Thursday, June 13, 2013

Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography

San Jose Museum of Art11am-5pm

This exhibition features images by Chinese photographers working in their homeland throughout the astounding social and economic transformation…

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Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage

San Jose Museum of Art11am - 5pm

Photographer Annie Leibovitz helped make Jann Wenner's fledging rag Rolling Stone the seminal publication of its era; thanks to her portraits…

Artist Talk with Jana Marcus

Museum of Art and History6pm-8pm

Artist Jana Marcus comes to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History to discuss her award-winning work on the transgender community, Transfigurations,…

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Friday Nights at the de Young

de Young Museum5pm - 8:45pm

This spring, join us for season 9 of Friday Nights at the de Young and celebrate the museum’s collections as well as the special exhibitions…

Shih Chieh Huang: Synthetic Seduction

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)12–8 pm

What [Shih Chieh Huang] generates in all of his work is a genuine sense of technology as life form” —Sally Butler, artlink.com Shih Chieh…

Culinary Walking Tours

Local Tastes of the City Tours10am and 2pm

All food and drinks are included, on your leisurely flat 7-8 block stroll around Little Italy. You will not go away hungry with our food tour's…

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Gazing into Nature: Early Chinese Painting

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11 am - 5 pm

June 5, 2013 - October 20, 2013 We are delighted to present, for the first time in ten years, a selection of BAM/PFA’s earliest Chinese paintings.…

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Hans Hofmann: Rectangles

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11 am-5 pm

May 17, 2013 - September 1, 2013 Hans Hofmann: Rectangles is drawn exclusively from BAM/PFA’s unsurpassed collection of paintings by this tremendously…

Escape from the Magic Show

The Regency Center5:30pm, 8:30pm*The game will begin 30 minutes…

Will you be able to untie your hands and escape? You are seated around a table. Your hands are tied to the people beside you. On the table…

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"Barking Up the Family Tree" 6/5 through10/14,2013

Charles M Schulz Museum & Research Center11AM-5PM, weekends:10AM-5PM(closed on Tuesdays after Labor Day)

Meet Snoopy's "band of brothers", Spike, Marbles, Olaf and Andy and sister Belle in this exhibition of 70 original Peanuts strips.

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Film of the Month: Where the Wild Things Are

The Walt Disney Family Museum11:00AM, 1:30PM, 4:00PM

See the film based on the Maurice Sendak's classic book. This film is shown in conjunction with Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons.

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California Sunset Cruise

Red and White Fleet6:00 PM- 8:00 PM

On this casual two-hour cruise, passengers enjoy views of the city’s stunning sunset over the Pacific Ocean, live guitar entertainment, hearty…

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"Mid-Century Modern"

Charles M Schulz Museum & Research Center11AM-5PM, weekends:10AM-5PM(closed on Tuesdays-before Memorial Day)

Many of the Peanuts comic strips of the 1950's and 1960's exude the mid-century modern aesthetic of the day. In a series of vignettes these…

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Nicole Eisenman / MATRIX 248

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11:00am-5:00pm

MATRIX 248 showcases the work of New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965), who became prominent in the 1990s and has been steadfastly…

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Golden Gate Bay Cruise

Red and White Fleet10 AM

As San Francisco's original sightseeing adventure, this one-hour narrated cruise sails under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz Island,…

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From Fiber to Fabric: A History of American Textile Production

The Museum of American Heritage11am to 4pm

A new exhibition at the Museum of American Heritage presents the history of textile production in the United States from homespun of colonial…

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"Art of the Line"

Charles M Schulz Museum & Research Center11AM-5PM, weekends:10AM-5PM(closed on Tuesdays-before Memorial Day)

Learn more about Charles Schulz's process from the tools he used to the research he undertook in this exhibition of original comic strips, photographs,…

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Frills, Frippery, and Finery exhibit

The Lace Museum11:00 AM to 4:00 PM

“Frills, Frippery, and Fineryâ€�,--an exhibit showcasing lace collars and accessories for the well-dressed woman of the Victorian and Edwardian…

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