SF/ARTS

Museums

500 Years of Leonardo, 1519-2019

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Feb 19

MAKE: Divine Ammunition

Museum of Craft and Design

Feb 21

Postcolonial Revenge

Mission Cultural Center

Jan 18 → Feb 22

Mission Gráfica Archive: Print Sale

Mission Cultural Center

Jan 18 → Feb 22

ABM Lecture Series: Birthing a Book

The American Bookbinders Museum

Feb 23

Creating Leonardo: Celebrating 500 Years of Leonar

Humanities West

Feb 22 → Feb 23

East Meets West: Jewels of the Maharajas

Legion of Honor

Nov 3 → Feb 24

Al Farrow: Divine Ammunition

Museum of Craft and Design

Nov 17 → Feb 24

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Nov 10 → Feb 24

Do Ho Suh: The Spaces in Between

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

May 10 → Feb 25

Nona Caspers and Friends

San Francisco Public Library

Feb 27

Courage Under Fire: The Story of Elroy

San Francisco Public Library

Feb 27

Thu at Noon: Theme: African-American H

San Francisco Public Library

Feb 7 → Feb 28

Be Our Valentine

San Francisco Public Library

Feb 1 → Feb 28

Pay What You Wish Day

Cartoon Art Museum

Feb 1 → Feb 28

Women in STEAM

Chabot Space & Science Center

Mar 1

Future Friday

Chabot Space & Science Center

Mar 1

ABM Lecture: Paper-History, Culture, Art

The American Bookbinders Museum

Mar 2

Alphabété: Fréderic Bruly Bouabré

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Jun 20 → Mar 2

The Dancing Sowei

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Mar 21 → Mar 2

Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

UC Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

Aug 15 → Mar 3

Edge of See: Twilight Engines

Headlands Center for the Arts

Dec 2 → Mar 3

Raw and Tender: Glimpses into Tenderloin

International Art Museum of America

Feb 7 → Mar 3

After Dark: STEAM-Y Stories

Exploratorium

Mar 7

Art/Work: Art Created by the Staff at SFPL

San Francisco Public Library

Nov 5 → Mar 8

Lonnie Holley: Conversation and Concert

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Boomtowns: How Photography Shaped L.A. and SF

California Historical Society

Oct 12 → Mar 10

In Conversation: Black Power

Oakland Museum of California

Mar 10

Exhibition: The Circle of Truth

New Museum of Los Gatos

Oct 18 → Mar 10

Other Walks, Other Lines

San Jose Museum of Art

Nov 2 → Mar 10

Other Walks: Gabriel Orozco

San Jose Museum of Art

Nov 2 → Mar 10

Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

The Mothers Building: Photography by Richard Rothm

San Francisco Public Library

Nov 5 → Mar 15

Lectures & Lasers

Chabot Space & Science Center

Family ArtBash: Celebrating Authors Big & Small

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Cruisin' The Fossil Coastline

Oakland Museum of California

Nov 10 → Mar 17

Friday Nights at OMCA:Nowruz Celebration

Oakland Museum of California

Mar 22

Saturday Cinema: Shadow Play

Exploratorium

Mar 9 → Mar 23

Women in STEAM in Space

Chabot Space & Science Center

Mar 23

Arthur Jafa / MATRIX 272

UC Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

Dec 12 → Mar 24

Bik Van de Pol: Take Part

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Dec 5 → Mar 25

SF Wildlife: Photography by Jouko van der Kruijsse

San Francisco Public Library

Jan 15 → Mar 28

Illusion and the Magic City

San Francisco Public Library

Jan 15 → Mar 28

The Life and Times of Jo Mora

Cartoon Art Museum

Oct 27 → Mar 30

ABM Lecture: Legacies of 5 Bookbinders

The American Bookbinders Museum

Matchbook Art: Alexander Von Wolff

The Tenderloin Museum

Feb 7 → Mar 31

Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Dec 15 → Mar 31

Steve Kahn: The Hollywood Suites

M.H. de Young Museum

Sep 29 → Mar 31

Visual Poetry: A Lyrical Twist

San Francisco Public Library

Jan 15 → Mar 31

Get Dancin'

UC Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

Jan 9 → Mar 31

Artist Talk with Mildred Howard

Oakland Museum of California

Mar 31

Friday Nights at OMCA Winter

Oakland Museum of California

Mar 1 → Apr 5

First Friday: The Science of Baseball

Chabot Space & Science Center

Apr 5

Future Friday

Chabot Space & Science Center

Apr 5

Dinh Q. Lê: True Journey Is Return

San Jose Museum of Art

Sep 14 → Apr 7

Topography: Mixed-Media by Robin Mullery

Peninsula Museum of Art

Jan 27 → Apr 7

Expanding Universe:Constructed Paintings

Peninsula Museum of Art

Jan 27 → Apr 7

Richard Shaw and Wanxin Zhang

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Jan 19 → Apr 7

Phillip K Smith III: Portals

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Jan 19 → Apr 7

First Sundays at OMCA

Oakland Museum of California

Mar 3 → Apr 7

Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey

M.H. de Young Museum

Nov 17 → Apr 7

The Future of the Past

Legion of Honor

May 14 → Apr 7

Unsung Heroes: Black Shipyard Workers, 1940 – 1945

San Francisco Public Library

Jan 15 → Apr 11

Tinkerfest

Chabot Space & Science Center

Apr 13

Sadie Barnette: Phone Home

Museum of the African Diaspora

Jan 6 → Apr 14

Black Refractions

Museum of the African Diaspora

Jan 16 → Apr 14

Ink, Paper, Silk

UC Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

Dec 12 → Apr 14

Paul Klee and the Prinzhorn Collection

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sep 15 → Apr 14

Lectures & Lasers

Chabot Space & Science Center

Apr 19

Friday Nights at OMCA Summer Season

Oakland Museum of California

Mood & Movement - Suhas Bhujbal

Peninsula Museum of Art

Feb 17 → Apr 27

Overgrown - Heather Dealing

Peninsula Museum of Art

Feb 17 → Apr 27

From the Stone Age to the Digital Age

Peninsula Museum of Art

Feb 17 → Apr 27

The Sea Ranch

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Dec 22 → Apr 28

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sep 29 → Apr 28

Fans of the Eighteenth Century

Feinstein’s at the Nikko

May 9 → May 12

In Search of the Glass Slipper: San Francisco, 1974

San Francisco Public Library

Feb 16 → May 16

Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman

San Francisco Public Library

Feb 2 → May 19

Johannes Brus

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Oct 27 → May 27

Monet: The Late Years

M.H. de Young Museum

Feb 16 → May 27

Then They Came for Me

National Japanese American Historical Society

Nov 8 → May 27

Louis Stettner: Traveling Light

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Giants of Land and Sea

California Academy of Sciences

Jun 15 → Jun 1

TTOZOI: Genius Loci From Mold to Art

Museo Italo Americano

Feb 7 → Jun 9

New Work: Rodney McMillian

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Feb 9 → Jun 9

Stray: A Graphic Tone

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Feb 23 → Jun 16

Kahlil Joseph: BLKNWS

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Oct 10 → Jun 16

Ordinary Objects / Wild Things

M.H. de Young Museum

Dec 15 → Jun 23

Small Inventions: Artist’s Books by Charles Hobson

Legion of Honor

Feb 2 → Jun 30

Building Bridges, Not Walls

Berkeley Historical Society

Nov 11 → Jun 30

The MADE

Museum of Art & Digital Entertainment/Oakland

Aug 10 → Jun 30

Undersoul: Jay DeFeo

San Jose Museum of Art

Mar 8 → Jul 7

Show Me as I Want to Be Seen

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Feb 7 → Jul 7

Material Domestication

Museum of Craft and Design

Mar 16 → Jul 14

Louise Bourgeois Spiders

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Oct 7 → Jul 14

Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction

UC Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

Feb 27 → Jul 21

In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Jul 26 → Jul 30

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Mar 30 → Aug 4

Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Apr 20 → Aug 4

Pat O’Neill: Three Answers

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Queer California: Untold Stories

Oakland Museum of California

Apr 13 → Aug 11

The Medium Is the Message

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Feb 23 → Aug 18

Josiah McElheny: Island Universe

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Feb 23 → Aug 18

Painting Nature in the American Gilded Age

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Sep 5 → Aug 25

Investigation of Memory

Oakland Museum of California

Feb 2 → Sep 1

Pushing West

Oakland Museum of California

May 4 → Sep 1

Mildred Howard’s TAP

Oakland Museum of California

Feb 2 → Sep 1

Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

May 19 → Sep 2

Overland to California

California Historical Society

Mar 21 → Sep 8

Westward the Course of Empire

California Historical Society

Agrarianaa: Art Inspired by APA

Asian American Women Artists Association

Mar 9 → Sep 29

JR: The Chronicles of San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Apr 25 → Sep 30

Stephen Powers: Daymaker

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

May 18 → Sep 30

Elemental Calder

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Feb 16 → Sep 30

The Fringed Shawl

LACIS Museum of Lace and Textiles

Apr 6 → Oct 5

New Work: Etel Adnan

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sep 1 → Oct 6

Viola Frey: Center Stage

Di Rosa/Napa

Mar 9 → Dec 29

Building a Different Model

Di Rosa/Napa

Mar 9 → Dec 29

Exquisite Art Under Adverse Conditions

Japanese American Museum of San Jose

Dec 1 → Dec 31

Work of Giants

Chinese Historical Society of America

Aug 25 → Dec 31

“I Am An…,”

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Nov 14 → Jan 1

Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Sep 25 → Jan 5

Contact Warhol: Photography Without End

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Sep 29 → Jan 6

Blackboard

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Sep 19 → Jan 27

The Life & Times of Los Gatos High

New Museum of Los Gatos

Sep 8 → Jan 28

Richard Serra’s Sequence Returns

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Feb 6 → Feb 6

In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

An exhibition by Bay Area artist Allison Smith in collaboration with craft and design historian Christina Zetterlund.

Event Info

Jul 20 → Jul 08
Open daily (except Wed.): 11am–5pm and Thu 11am–8pm

$14 adults, $12 students and senior citizens with a valid ID, and $5 on Thursdays after 5pm. Youth 18 and under free.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

736 Mission, San Francisco

Info: 415/655-7800

Venue: 655-7800

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