Saturday, August 17, 2013

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Fletcher Benton: In Motion

de Saisset Museum11:00 AM-4:00 PM

Drawing from the collections of the de Saisset Museum and the Fletcher Benton Studio, Fletcher Benton: In Motion features a selection of the…

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Fletcher Benton: The Artist's Studio

de Saisset Museum11:00 AM-4:00 PM

Fletcher Benton: The Artist's Studio explores the unique attitudes and methods that Benton, a world-renowned kinetic and constructivist sculptor,…

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Fletcher Benton: The Artist's Studio & In Motion

de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara UniversityTuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Fletcher Benton: The Artist's Studio explores the unique attitudes and methods that Benton, a world-renowned kinetic and constructivist sculptor,…

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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…

Greek Mythology Weekend at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach

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

August 17 - 18 Greek Mythology Weekend at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach The gods and goddesses descend from Mt. Olympus this one weekend only…

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Science Sunday

Seymour Marine Discovery Center1:00 PM

Join Kerstin Wasson, Research Coordinator at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and Adjunct Associate Professor of Ecology…

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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…

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…

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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Bambi

The Walt Disney Family Museum11:00AM, 1:30PM, 4:00PM

See Walt Disney's fourth animated feature, "Bambi," shown throughout the month of August at 11:00am, 1:30pm, and 4:00pm excluding Tuesdays.

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Full Spectrum Science: Mixing Color

Exploratorium02:00PM - 03:00PM6+

If you think that mixing red and green will always give you a murky brown, would you be surprised to see them make yellow? Join Exploratorium…

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Perspectives on Historic Preservation

Los Altos History Museum2-3:30pm

Panel discussion moderated by Julie Fry, exhibit team member and board member of DoCoMoMo (the international non-profit whose full title is…

Zarouhie Abdalian / MATRIX 249

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

August 2, 2013 - September 29, 2013 MATRIX 249 showcases the work of Oakland-based artist Zarouhie Abdalian (b. 1982), an artist whose work…

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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