Thursday, June 27, 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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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…

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…

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…

Deities, Demons, and Teachers of Tibet, Nepal, and India

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

June 26, 2013 - September 14, 2014 Joyful and sensual sculptural figures of Indian deities and dancers join radiant images of enlightened…

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…

"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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Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art

The Contemporary Jewish Museum11am–5pm

Co-organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual…

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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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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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