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San Francisco Museum Exhibits - June 2008
Listings updated annually.
June 2008 exhibits at San Francisco museums. Museums outside of the city are listed at the end.
** Note: Museums not listed are temporarily closed or do not have special exhibitions this month.
The Guide to San Francisco Museums has a more extensive list of venues, with full address and location information. The San Francisco Museum Map shows locations of museums within the city.
See the guide to Free Museum Days in San Francisco for monthly freebies.
11. Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
© Ingrid Taylar
Location: SoMa/South of Market - (SoMa Information)
Profile of the Museum of the African Diaspora
See also: San Francisco Museum Map and Guide to SF Museums
Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera
Jun 19 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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12. Presidio Officers' Club
Location: Presidio
San Francisco Presidio Information
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Transforming Art Exhibition: The Art of Chris Hardman
Extended to June 15, 2008
Exhibition highlights a collection of the most exciting new designs for contemporary living currently emerging on the West Coast
13. San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design
Location: Union Square
Museum of Craft + Design Website
See also: San Francisco Museum Map and Guide to SF Museums
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
May 9 to June 29, 2008
Exhibition highlighting the "revolution in clay" -- the mid 1950s period at the ceramics department of Otis Art Institute then the Los Angeles County Art Institute. The "revolution" questioned the tradition that ceramic forms must be utilitarian. Artists created nonfunctional, sculptural works giving the medium a new freedom of expression.
14. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)
© Ingrid Taylar
Location: SoMa - (SoMa Information)
Profile of SF MOMA
See also: San Francisco Museum Map and Guide to SF Museums
Frida Kahlo
Jun 14 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.
Gabriele Basilico: From San Francisco to Silicon Valley
To June 15, 2008
Photos taken by Basilico at the invitation of SFMOMA during month-long residency in the Bay Area.
A Rooftop Garden for SFMOMA
To October 26, 2008
Exhibition offers visitors a glimpse of SFMOMA's expansion and new fifth-floor garden
See the SF MOMA Website for more events.
15. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
© Ingrid Taylar
Location: SoMa - (SoMa Information)
See also: San Francisco Museum Map and Guide to SF Museums
The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics
To June 29, 2008
Showcases politically-charged work of a new generation of women -- works influenced by feminist ideologies of the past, while speaking to issues facing women now
Tracing Roads through Central Asia: On Traders' Dilemmas And Travelers' Perspectives
To June 29, 2008
Explores complex relationship between process of nation building and political nature of historical memory in the work of a handful artists from Central Asia and surrounding regions
16. Oakland Museum of California (Downtown Oakland)
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
17. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way in Berkeley, CA
See also: Map of Berkeley and Guide to SF/Bay Area Museums
See additional exhibits at the museum website
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
18. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (Berkeley)
Berkeley - Kroeber Hall on Bancroft Way at College Avenue
See also: Map of Berkeley and Guide to SF/Bay Area Museums
From the Land of the Rajas: Creativity in Rajasthan
Through December 21, 2008
19. Cantor Arts Center (Stanford/Palo Alto)
Location: Stanford Campus - Palo Alto
Cantor Arts Website
Spared from the Storm: Masterworks From the New Orleans Museum of Art
Jun 4 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
Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia
Through June 29, 2008
Exhibition of 24 wooden masks (from collection of the Fowler Museum/UCLA), explores the drama and complexity of masquerades in which the masks are used
See a photos of nearby Stanford Campus.
20. Marin History Museum (Marin/San Rafael)
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