Friday, April 24, 2015

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

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

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

Shifting Currents: Highlights from the 20th-Century Chinese Collection

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am -5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

The Cantor's Asian collection features works in a variety of media. With especially strong holdings of Chineseand Japanese art, the collection…

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Plus One: Pop Duplications

Cantor Arts Center11 AM - 5 PM; 11 AM- 8PM Thursdays; closed Tuesdays

In the early 1960s, American artists increasingly drew on popular imagery, commercial signage, and product design as source material and creative…

Promised Land: JACOB LAWRENCE at the Cantor. A Gift from the Kayden Family

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am - 5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

This exhibition features an exceptional group of 56 works by the 20th-century American artist, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), and one by his spouse,…

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Drama of Heaven and Earth: The Theatrical Traditions of Japan

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am -5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

During medieval and early-modern times, the Japanese theatrical art of Noh developed from a form of popular performance to the solemn, abstract…

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Imagining the Oceans

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

Ocean environments have nourished the imagination of visual artists across history and cultures, yielding a dramatic spectrum of influential…

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American Battleground: Photographs of the Civil War, 1861-1865

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

Photography was invented in France more than two decades before the Civil War erupted in America. By the 1860s, visual culture and fine art…

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Main Stage Concert: The Romantics (Palo Alto)

First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Benjamin Simon, conductor Sterling Elliott, cello [2015 Debut Artist and 2014 Sphinx Competition Winner] Making his West Coast debut with these…

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Gamble Garden Spring Tour 2015 - There is No Place Like Home

Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden CenterFriday and Saturday, April 24/25, 10am - 4pm

Friday and Saturday, April 24/25, 10am - 4pm Join us on April 24 & 25, 2015 for the 30th Anniversary Spring Tour! For thirty years, the annual…

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Pet-a-Palooza at Town & Country Village

Town & Country Village12-3 PM

Pet-A-Palooza brings all things pets to Town & Country Village for a day of festive, four-legged fun! Pet owners and their pooches will enjoy…

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Arboreal Architecture: A Visual History of Trees

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

From the earliest stages of human history, trees have provided resources for civilization, symbolic structure to families, spatial logic for…

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Bravo!: Music and Theater in Enlightenment Europe

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

Patronage for acting and music flourished across Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Monarchs and city governments sponsored…

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Interaction of Color: Josef Albers Highlights from the Marmor Collection

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

Over the last decade, the Marmor family and its Foundation have given the Cantor approximately 200 contemporary artworks, primarily prints.…

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Fatal Laughs: The Art of Robert Arneson

Cantor Arts Center11 AM-5 PM, Thurs until 8 PM, CLOSED TUESDAY

Robert Arneson revolutionized the medium of clay, transforming it from a “craft” medium into “fine art.” Over a career of more than…

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She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World

Cantor Arts Center11 AM-5 PM, Thurs until 8 PM, CLOSED TUESDAY

This exhibition introduces the pioneering work of 12 leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world. Their provocative work ranges…

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She Who Tells a Story

Cantor Arts CenterWednesday-Monday: 11 AM-5 PM; Thursday 11 AM-8 PM

This exhibition introduces the pioneering work Dashtiof 12 leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra…

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Pop Art from the Anderson Collection at SFMOMA

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

For the past 50 years, Bay Area art collectors Harry and Mary Margaret Anderson have passionately assembled one of the most outstanding private…

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She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm, closed Tuesday

CLOSED TUESDAY. The provocative work in this exhibition challenges perceptions of Middle Eastern identity and its women, supposedly powerless…

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