More Than your Selfie
NUMU MuseumWednesday 1pm-5pm Thursday 11am-8pm Friday 11am-5pm Saturday 11am-5pm Sunday 11am-5pm
The selfie is an ancient medium of art that only recently has been trivialized. Rembrandt painted himself throughout his life, capturing the…
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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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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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Art+Process+Ideas
Mills College Art Museum11am to 4pm
Art+Process+Ideas: June 24-August 30, 2015 Opening Reception: June 24, 2015 | 6:00-8:00 pm | Mills College Art Museum The Mills College Art…
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Engineering Design Everyday
Lawrence Hall of Science10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Do Ingenuity Lab challenges every day in the Ingenuity Studio, located on the exhibit floor. Design, build and test your own inventions with…
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Summer Animal Adaptations
Lawrence Hall of Science1:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
How does warmer weather change an animal's appetite, behavior or coat? Meet a friendly new animal every 30 minutes in the Animal Discovery Room…
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Summer Fun Days
Lawrence Hall of Science12:00 noon–2:00 p.m.
Make your Wednesdays "Summer Fun Days" with new, exciting events each week. Build structures with unlikely materials, witness high-flying stunts…
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28 Chinese
Asian Art Museum10am-5pm, til 9pm on Thu
The result of more than a decade’s worth of exploration, research and collecting, this new exhibition—organized by the extraordinary Rubell…
Pacific Worlds
Oakland Museum of CaliforniaWed & Thu 11 am – 5 pm, Fri 11am - 9pm, Sat & Sun 10am - 6pm
Celebrating the vibrant historic and cultural relationships, past and present, between the Pacific Islands and California, Pacific Worlds examines…
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)Wed & Sun Noon - 6 PM, Thu-Sat Noon - 8 PM, Free First Tuesday of every month from Noon - 8 PM
YBCA is thrilled to be the only West Coast venue for Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, the first comprehensive survey…
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Picturing Sound, Creating Mood
Asian Art Museum10:00am-5:00pm
Indian paintings rotation third floor (Gallery 5)
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High Style: The Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection
Legion of Honor9:30 am to 5:15 pm, closed Mondays and select holidays
Gowns, accessories, and other looks by the most influential designers of the last one hundred years—including Chanel, Givenchy, Dior, and Charles…
Janet Delaney: South of Market
de Young Museum9:30 am to 5:15 pm, closed Mondays and select holidays
In an exhibition particularly relevant to the Bay Area, Janet Delaney: South of Market relates the complex history of a changing San Francisco…
Embodiments: Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture
de Young Museum9:30 am to 5:15 pm, closed Mondays and select holidays
This selection of sculptures from sub-Saharan Africa pays homage to the figure in African art. Embodiments: Masterworks of African Figurative…
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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