Thursday, August 22, 2013

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…

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…

LOOK CLOSER GALLERY TALKS: The Art of Tyrus Wong

The Walt Disney Family Museum11:00AM, 1:00PM, 3:00PM

In conjunction with special exhibition Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong, we invite guests to delve into the artwork and fascinating…

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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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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…

Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993–2013

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

August 21, 2013 - December 8, 2013 Although widely unknown in the United States, Yang Fudong (born in 1971 in Beijing, lives and works in Shanghai)…

"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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"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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