Friday, March 20, 2009

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2008 SECA Art Award

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Administered by SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art), an SFMOMA art interest group, this biennial award honors local artists…

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Kristin Morgin

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts11am

Kristen Morgin uses a mixture of clay, cement, and glue applied over armatures of wood and wire to create true-to-scale objects that appear…

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Irreverent: Contemporary Nordic Craft Art; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Galleries

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)noon - 5pm

YBCA features a new generation of craft artists from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland in an exhibition of Irreverent: Contemporary Nordic…

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Wilfried Satty

San Jose Museum of Art11am-5pm

Growing up in Germany during World War II, Wilfried Satty’s (1939-1982) imagination was forever stamped by the war-torn urban landscape. After…

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Otl Aicher

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With his graphic design work for the Munich 1972 Olympic Games, Otl Aicher (whose brand identities include those of Braun and Lufthansa) developed…

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Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. LibraryMon-Tue and Thu, 11am-6pm, Wed, 11am-8pm, Fri, 11am-5pm and Sat, 1-5pm.

Displays of original Beethoven manuscripts, first editions, a lock of the composer's hair, art and demonstrations of historical keyboards. Fifth…

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Pop to the Present: A Decade of Collecting for Stanford

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm

In addition to its traveling shows, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford maintains a fairly strenuous collection program. The acquisitions of…

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Austere

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This exhibition brings together works from the photography and architecture and design collections that gather around a sense of reduced form…

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Digital Transformations

The Intel Museum10am-5pm

Explore through interactive exhibits how technologies used to capture images, communicate across distance and record sound have evolved over…

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Paul Klee's Social Creatures

SFMOMA11:30am

With his early line drawings of distorted, exaggerated, or fantastic characters, Paul Klee laid the groundwork for generations of artists creating…

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Patterns of Speculation

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Among the leading architectural studios in Europe, Berlin-based J. MAYER H. stands out for its commitment to a high level of formal and conceptual…

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Warhol Live

de Young MuseumTuesday through Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.

Over the course of his meteoric career, Andy Warhol used the medium of music to transform himself from fan, to record album designer, to producer,…

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A Line Drawn From Taipei

Children's Discovery Museum of San JoseMon-Sat, 10am-5pm and Sun, noon-5pm

Artwork created by kids at the Children's Art Museum in Taiwan is showcased at the museum. Beginning Jan 17, children will be able to add to…

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Houdini Magic Weekend

Playland-Not-At-The-Beach10am to 5pm

The first superstar of magic was undeniably Harry Houdini and in honor of his birth on March 24,Playland-Not-at-the-Beach is hosting a weekend…

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Children's Exhibits

Children's Discovery Museum of San Josecall for details

The museum hosts a variety of ongoing, hands-on exhibits for kids. Exhibits include "Bubbalogna," "Current Connections," "Secrets of Circles"…

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The Future of the Past: Utopia/Dystopia, 1965–1984

Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA1 p.m. / 3 p.m.Soylent Green / A Clockwork Ora…

$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). Double features:…

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3/21: Persian New Year (Norooz) at Habitot Children's Museum

Habitot Children's Museum9:30am-4:30pm

March 21, 2009: Golden Thread productions will present an interactive performance about Norooz history as part of Habitot’s Persian New Year…

Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet

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

Coming in February 2009 to BAM/PFA, Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet is organized by the University of California, Berkeley…

Taking Refuge: Buddhist Art from the Land of White Clouds

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

More than thirty important and beautiful objects from Tibet, Nepal, Kashmir, and India are presented in this exhibition of Buddhist art from…

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Invasion of the Land Animals

Cheap Airport Shuttle1pm - 3pmFree with Aquarium Admission

They’re heeeere…Aquarium of the Bay is gearing up to open three new exhibits in April, including PG&E Bay Lab, an interactive exhibit that will…

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