Friday, July 19, 2013

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…

Hack the Museum

Museum of Art and History11am-5pm

What happens when you invite eighty museum designers from around the world to create an exhibition together in 48 hours? Hack the Museum will…

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El Cerrito Relay For Life Weekend at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach

Playland-Not-At-The-Beach10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

July 20 - 21 El Cerrito Relay For Life Weekend Cheer on Playland-Not-at-the-Beach staff and volunteers as they Relay for those whose lives are…

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Learning from Walt with Rolly Crump

The Walt Disney Family Museum3:00PM

SOLD OUT Throughout his long and varied career, Rolly Crump was instrumental in the creation of some of The Walt Disney Company's most popular…

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Creating Drama in Illustration with Julie Downing

The Walt Disney Family Museum10:00am-12:30pm

Everyone knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. But what about the elements that make up a picture? Why are diagonals dramatic and…

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Hans Hofmann: Rectangles

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)11 am-5 pm

May 17, 2013 - September 1, 2013 Hans Hofmann: Rectangles is drawn exclusively from BAM/PFA’s unsurpassed collection of paintings by this tremendously…

"Barking Up the Family Tree" 6/5 through10/14,2013

Charles M Schulz Museum & Research Center11AM-5PM, weekends:10AM-5PM(closed on Tuesdays after Labor Day)

Meet Snoopy's "band of brothers", Spike, Marbles, Olaf and Andy and sister Belle in this exhibition of 70 original Peanuts strips.

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Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art

The Contemporary Jewish Museum11am–5pm

Co-organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual…

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"Mid-Century Modern"

Charles M Schulz Museum & Research Center11AM-5PM, weekends:10AM-5PM(closed on Tuesdays-before Memorial Day)

Many of the Peanuts comic strips of the 1950's and 1960's exude the mid-century modern aesthetic of the day. In a series of vignettes these…

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From Fiber to Fabric: A History of American Textile Production

The Museum of American Heritage11am to 4pm

A new exhibition at the Museum of American Heritage presents the history of textile production in the United States from homespun of colonial…

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"Art of the Line"

Charles M Schulz Museum & Research Center11AM-5PM, weekends:10AM-5PM(closed on Tuesdays-before Memorial Day)

Learn more about Charles Schulz's process from the tools he used to the research he undertook in this exhibition of original comic strips, photographs,…

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