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Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

The Contemporary Jewish Museum11 AM- 5 PM

This summer, the Contemporary Jewish Museum presents Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World), the first major museum survey of…

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You'd Be Naked Without Geometry

Exploratoriumnoon - 4pm

July 17 and 31, Noon-4pm Design and Construction With Clothing Designer Barbara Beccio Clothing designer Barbara Beccio has an MFA in Costume…

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SHANGHAI

Asian Art Museum10-5pm Tues-Sun, 10-9pm Thurs, CLOSED Mondays

Shanghai explores, through the mirror of its art, the tumultuous history that has resulted in one of the world's most dynamic and cosmopolitan…

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New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

SFMOMA10:00am - 5:45pm

A turning point in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition New Topographics signaled a radical shift away from traditional depictions…

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Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection

SFMOMAgallery hours

June 25 - September 19, 2010 This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of…

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Picturing Modernity

SFMOMA10:00am - 5:45pm

Organized in conjunction with New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, this installation of the SFMOMA collection explores…

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THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW

SFMOMA11am-5:45pm, till 8:45pm on Thu

On January 18, SFMOMA marks its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's first solo museum…

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New Work: Mika Rottenberg

SFMOMA10:00am - 5:45pm

Mika Rottenberg’s immersive video installations address issues of gender and labor through outrageous narratives centered around real women…

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Geometry Playground

Exploratorium10am - 5pm

The word "geometry" might dredge up sweaty-palm memories of classrooms, textbooks, and trying to calculate the volume of a cube. But what if…

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FourSite: 4 Artists | 4 Materials | 4 Sites

San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Four California artists will transform the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design (SFMC+D) with four distinct, large-scale installations of fiber,…

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Target Arts & Wonder Free Family Event

Asian Art Museum10 AM to 5 PM

San Francisco’s leading museums are having a free for all and you’re invited! It’s one big weekend of fun as the de Young Museum, Asian Art…

Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

de Young Museum9:30 am–5:15 pm

Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay presents nearly 100 magnificent works by the famous masters who called France their…

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Impressionist Paris: City of Light

Legion of Honor9:30 am–5:15 pm

La Ville-Lumière—“the City of Light”: Paris earned this nickname during the 19th century with the proliferation of gas lamps that lit up the…

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Physics of Toys: Shapes of Summer

Exploratorium11:00 -3:00

Join the Physics of Toys team as they celebrate the opening of the newest exhibition, Geometry Playground by playing with shapes, forms and…

INFINITE CITY: MONARCHS AND QUEENS

Bayview Hill11:00am - 1:00pm

Bayview Hill: meet at Key Avenue and Third Street, San Francisco With art by Mona Caron and an essay by Aaron Shurin, this broadside map juxtaposes…

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INFINITE CITY: MONARCHS AND QUEENS

Randall Museum4:00pm

Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco With art by Mona Caron and an essay by Aaron Shurin, this broadside map juxtaposes the habitats…

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Fashion Design Knitting - Machine Knitting in the Round

ExploratoriumNoon - 4:00pm

Lynda Grose Silva is an Associate Professor of California College of the Arts, author and industry consultant on sustainability. Today, Lynda…

Animating Dimensions

ExploratoriumNoon, 2pm, and 4pmMcBean Theater

Flatland: A Journey of Many Dimensions (2008, 30 min.), produced by Seth Caplan and directed by Jeffrey Travis, beautifully animates the transformative…

Geometric Threads: Moving Between Dimensions

ExploratoriumNoon-4pm

The expert artisans who make our clothes and furniture use geometry everyday. See master upholsterer Mike Boloyan and an expert clothing designer…

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