Thursday, July 11, 2013

Butterflies & Blooms

Conservatory of Flowers10 AM - 4 PM

Get eye to eye with a butterfly in the exhibit Butterflies & Blooms coming to the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park this spring and…

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Social Robots

The Tech Museum of Innovation10am - 5pm

Social Robots is the Tech Museum's newest hands-on experience that allows visitors to design, build and program a real robot using sensors,…

Curious George: Let's Get Curious

Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose10am - 5pm

Based on the familiar characters in H.A. and Margret Rey's classic stories published by Houghton Mifflin, the Curious George exhibit encourages…

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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…

Impressionists on the Water

Legion of Honor9:30am - 5:15pm

Coinciding with San Francisco's hosting of the America's Cup races this summer, another side of nautical life is revealed by more than 80 remarkable…

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…

Hack the Museum Celebration

Museum of Art and History6pm-9pm

Want to see what happens when you invite eighty museum designers from around the world to create an exhibition together in 48 hours? Then come…

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Shaped by Water: Past, Present & Future

History | San Jose11am-4pm

History San Jose is proud to bring you its newest exhibition, "Shaped by Water: Past, Present & Future". Created by the Los Altos History Museum,…

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Richard Diebenkorn

de Young Museum9:30am - 5:15pm

Deeply engaged with the unique setting of the Bay Area, artist Richard Diebenkorn profoundly influenced postwar American art during his years…

Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

The Contemporary Jewish Museum11am–5pm

One of the most visionary writers of his generation and author of the celebrated poem “Howl,” Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was also a photographer.…

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Wood, Metal, Paint: Sculpture from the Fisher Collection

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm Wed-Sun; 11am-8pm Thurs

Beginning February 29th, Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center presents a new installation featuring work by John Chamberlain, Martin Puryear,…

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…

Proximities

Asian Art Museum10am - 5pm

Asian influences are pervasive in U.S. culture, perhaps nowhere more so than in the Bay Area. But we each encounter Asia differently—some have…

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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Darren Waterston: A Compendium of Creatures

Legion of Honor9:30am - 5:15pm

This exhibition showcases the portfolio A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures, 12 color aquatints by noted artist Darren Waterston…

Kota Ezawa: Boardwalk

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)12noon - 8pm, till 6pm on Sun

San Francisco-based Kota Ezawa rebuilds a side view of the Seaside Heights boardwalk, which was devastated during Hurricane Sandy, in YBCA’s…

Inspiration Points

Oakland Museum of California11am - 5pm, till 9pm on Fri

Artful Animals, Part 2

Legion of Honor9:30am - 5:15pm

Since the dawn of time, human beings have been fascinated with the animal world. Depictions of animals are some of the earliest known artistic…

The Errand of the Eye

de Young Museum9:30am - 5:15pm

From the late 1940s through the early 1970s, Rose Mandel produced an original and evocative body of photographs, working closely with and among…

American Heroes

de Young Museum9:30am - 5:15pm

Nearly seven decades after the beginning of World War II, the Congressional Gold Medal—the nation’s highest civilian award—was bestowed collectively…