Sunday, August 02, 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…

Empathy

Cantor Arts CenterOpen: Wed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

August 12, 2015 to January 25, 2016 "Empathy" entered the English language via aesthetics and psychology in the late 19th century. Today, empathy…

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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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Jimmy Cobb's Mob

Stanford Dinkelspiel Auditorium8pm

Jimmy Cobb was Miles Davis' drummer from 1957 through 1963 and brought his unique percussive vision to Sketches of Spain, Someday My Prince…

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Word as Image: Highlights from the Marmor Collection

Cantor Arts CenterOpen: Wed-Mon, 11 am-5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, Closed Tues

While artists throughout history have integrated words into their works, modern and contemporary artists have given them a significant position…

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Modern Times: O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, Toomer

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

The aesthetic and romantic relationship between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz has been widely studied, but less is known about O'Keeffe's…

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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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500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum

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

Nearly 100 dazzling and rarely seen drawings dating from the 15th through the 20th centuries will be on view in this major exhibition. Beyond…

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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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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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