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Friday, February 01, 2008

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	San Jose (Downtown), Museums, Modern Art Museums GOYA’S CAPRICHOS: DREAMS OF REASON AND MADNESS at San Jose Museum of Art (11am - 5pm) Utilizing satire and a dark imagination, Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya published Los Caprichos, a series of 80 etchings in 1799. Goya... More

	San Jose (Downtown), Museums, Modern Art Museums PICASSO: ETCHINGS OF LOVE AND DESIRE at San Jose Museum of Art (11am - 5pm ) Love and desire are themes that fascinated the twentieth-century master Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973). Born in Malaga, Spain, Picasso studied art in Barcelona... More

	Golden Gate Park, Museums, Natural History Museums Color: A Winter Carnivale at Conservatory of Flowers (9 AM to 5 PM) A dazzling display of floral color at San Francisco's Conservatory of Flowers treats visitors to one of the greatest shows on earth. If the gray days... More		415.666.7001 Buy Tickets

	Downtown/Financial District, Museums, Other Art Events Kenney Mencher: Lovers & Liars at Varnish Fine Art Studio (11am to 11pm) California-based artist and art history professor Kenney Mencher knows what it’s like to be at the center of controversy stemming from his artwork. Although... More		415.222.6131

	Richmond (Outer), Museums, Fine Arts Museums Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles at Legion of Honor (10am - 5pm) Marie-Antoinette, the Austrian-born queen of Louis XVI of France, was given the Petit Trianon, a small château secluded in the park at Versailles, upon... More		415-863-3330

	SoMa, Museums, Modern Art Museums Olafur Eliasson at SFMOMA (10 am - 6 pm, till 9 pm on Thu) Widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson nimbly merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary... More

	SoMa, Museums The Art and Flair of Mary Blair at Cartoon Art Museum (11am - 5pm, except Mondays) "Mention the name Mary Blair, and few will recognize it. But say she designed 'Alice In Wonderland,' the 'It's A Small World' ride at Disneyland... More

	Berkeley, Museums Parting the Curtain: Asian Art Revealed at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (W - Su 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Th 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.) “Asian art” is not one but many diverse expressions of culture, religion, and aesthetics. The broad geographical range of Asia, from the subcontinent... More

	Berkeley, Museums, Cultural Museums Tomás Saraceno: Microscale, Macroscale, and Beyond: Large-Scale Implications of Small-Scale Experiments at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (W - Su 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Th 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.) This fall, BAM/PFA presents the first major exhibition in the United States of artist and visionary architect, Tomás Saraceno. Over many years, Saraceno... More

	San Jose (Downtown), Museums, Modern Art Museums Joan Miró at San Jose Museum of Art (11am - 5pm) This exhibition features the work of pioneer European modernist Joan Miró, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth-century. Highlighting... More

	SoMa, Museums, Photography Exhibits Gabriele Basilico at SFMOMA (11am - 5:45pm, till 8:40pm on Thu) Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico creates beautiful, often haunting portraits of urban environments that favor areas of transition and transformation.... More

	SoMa, Museums, Modern Art Museums The Missing Peace at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) (12noon - 5pm, till 8pm on Thu) Works by more than 88 artists from 30 countries in a landmark exhibition that offers up art as a lens through which we experience our common humanity.... More		Buy Tickets

	Mission, Museums, Art Organizations Artist-Xchange Feb '08 Grp Exhibit at Artist-Xchange (opens @ 12pm; reception @ 7p-10p) Exhibiting artists: Liz Maher, Max Ehrman, T.K. Stephens, Joseph Szymanski, Nicholas J. Diblasio, Michael Podorson, Jenny Sueyoun Kim, Francois Egron,... More		415-864-1490

	Golden Gate Park, Museums, Fine Arts Museums Cultural Encounters: at de Young Museum (5:00–8:45 pm)Regular gallery admission price... Be among the first to experience the exhibition Lynn Hershman Leeson: No Body Special. San Francisco-based artist, Hershman Leeson is a pioneer in new... More		415.750.7694 Buy Tickets

	San Francisco, Museums, Other Art Events Table Asia Gallery - Exquisite Japanese Antiques Reborn at Fort Mason Center (Feb 1-2, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Feb 3, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.) San Francisco artisan Vince Meyer transforms antique and vintage Japanese ranma (wood transom panels) into distinctive and unique dining, console and... More		415-750-9955 Buy Tickets

	Richmond, Museums, Art Organizations "Herstory, History, A Movement" at 'Z' GALLERY ARTS Center (5:00pm - 9:00pm) Featuring the original portraiture of Artist: b jAXON, This body of work reflects faces in history which have, and continue to contribute and sacrifice... More		510.236.3171

	Fremont, Museums, Art Organizations Outdoor Artists Celebrate Nature at Visitor Center of the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge (10-5 PM Tues-Sunday)		510-792-0222

	Marina/Cow Hollow, Museums, Cultural Museums The Museo's Permanent Collection at Museo Italoamericano (12-4pm ) The Museo maintains a small but impressive permanent collection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by prominent Italian and Italian-American... More

	San Jose (College Park), Museums, Natural History Museums Becoming American: Teenagers & Immigration at History Park (11 am - 4 pm) The City of San José takes pride in being one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the country. The topic of immigration is a timely and topical one,... More		408.287.2290

	Oakland, Museums, Art Organizations The Time Has Come at blankspace (7-10pm First Friday Reception) “The Time Has Come.” Oakland artists Billy Kroft and Tracy Timmins exhibit paintings, which depict a drastic epilogue to contemporary American civilization. Tracy... More		510-547-6608

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