July Museum Exhibits in San Francisco

Location: SoMa/South of Market - (SoMa Information)
Profile of the Museum of the African Diaspora

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Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera
To Sep 28, 2008
Exhibition includes historical photographs, albums and cased images from the collection, presenting two predominant subject threads: popular culture and historical images of African Americans and the reality of black life as depicted by African Americans themselves.

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Location: Presidio
San Francisco Presidio Information

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145 Years of Red Cross Photography: A Memory of Humanity
Opens July 16 to August 17, 2008
Exhibition showcases photographs from 145 years of armed conflict around the world as seen through the eyes of the humanitarian workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Special programs: July 25 (2pm) - Journalists on Dangerous Assignment / August 1 (2pm) - International Humanitarian Law in Times of War

Location: SoMa - (SoMa Information)
Profile of SF MOMA

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Frida Kahlo
To Sep 28, 2008
Exhibition commemorates the centennial of Kahlo's birth, brining together paintings that span her career, along with a selection of her own collection of photographs, most of which have never been on public display.

Modern Masterworks from the Elise S. Haas Collection
To July 20, 2008
Some 35 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper highlight early modernist works, especially the art of Henri Matisse and Henry Moore.

A Rooftop Garden for SFMOMA
To October 26, 2008
Offers visitors a glimpse of SFMOMA's expansion and new fifth-floor garden

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Location: SoMa - (SoMa Information)

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Bay Area Now5
Opens Jul 19 to Nov 16, 2008
Fifth triennial exhibition of Bay Area art explores questions around how to re-imagine a regional survey in the midst of globalization

Theory of Survival
Jul 19 to Oct 18, 2008
An interactive project, both within the YBCA galleries and as self-guided explorations of sites in and around San Francisco that offer cartographical and audio portraits of sites revealing the city’s forgotten histories

Estacion Odesia at YBCA & Queens Nails Annex
Jul 19 to Oct 18, 2008
Explores the work of Bay Area artists who are also musicians and who make audio based projects

Location: Downtown Oakland
Oakland Museum Website

In Our Own Backyard: A Celebration of the East Bay Regional Parks
Through October 12, 2008
More than 40 photographs from the museum's Bob Walker Archive, offering visitors a virtual tour through the East Bay's most scenic parks and open spaces, following the flow of water from snow-capped Mt. Diablo downstream and eventually into the Bay

Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
To Aug 17, 2008
looks at the painting, architecture, furniture design, decorative and graphic arts, film, and music that launched mid-century modernism in the United States, and established Los Angeles as a major American cultural center

2626 Bancroft Way in Berkeley, CA

See also: Map of Berkeley and Guide to SF/Bay Area Museums

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Hans Hofmann
Through Aug 3, 2008
Paintings by Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), the world’s most extensive museum collection of this German-born artist’s work. The exhibition on view draws on this collection to span nearly thirty years of Hofmann’s practice, from the figurative works of the 1930s to the explosive abstraction of the postwar period.

Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
Through Jul 20, 2008
Pioneering video artist Joan Jonas mines the cultural terrain of the American Southwest, as well as more personal territories

Location: Stanford Campus - Palo Alto
Cantor Arts Website

Spared from the Storm: Masterworks From the New Orleans Museum of Art
To Oct 5, 2008
Exhibition includes 80 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by many of the most influential artists of the 17th through the mid-20th centuries, featuring works by renowned artists such as baroque master Luca Giordano, impressionist Claude Monet, inventive modernist Pablo Picasso, and surrealist René Magritte

Richard Diebenkorn, Artist, and Carey Stanton, Collector: Their Stanford Connection
Opens Jul 23 to Nov 9, 2008
Presents 45 works by Diebenkorn that belonged to Diebenkorn's friend and fellow Stanford alumnus Carey Stanton (1923–1987)

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Location: San Rafael
Marin History Museum Website

Riding the Rails: Marin's Historic Trains
To January 10, 2009
Chronicles the evolution of railroad transportation in Marin County