Bay Area Museums Events

PRE-CONCERT LUNCHEON Friday, May 16, 2008, 11:30 - 1:30 Special Guest: Robert Padgett, winner of the 2008 Max Bragado-Darman Fanfare Competition Location:... More

Event: Khaled Hosseini, Author, The Kite Runner, and Goodwill Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Gloriann Liu's lens gloriously brings Afghanistan... More

Artists examine the threads of common experience across cultures and time As the title suggests, there is a cyclical rhythm to our existence, a nod... More

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES CHILDREN’S PHOTO CONTEST “Through the Lens: California in your backyard” The California Academy of Sciences is pleased... More

The latest installment in the New Work series debuts Los Angeles-based Paul Sietsema's most recent body of work, which includes sculptures, drawings,... More

One of the first U.S. museums to embrace time-based media artworks, SFMOMA boasts a dynamic collection that spans the history of the genre. This exhibition... More

Among photography's most prolific practitioners, Lee Friedlander is also heralded as one of the United States' finest. This retrospective assembles the... More

Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico creates beautiful, often haunting portraits of urban environments that favor areas of transition and transformation.... More

Advanced students display a wide array of innovative designs in visual communication, multimedia/digital, electronics, furniture manufacturing and green... More

The Museum of Performance & Design (MPD), formerly the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, unveils its new identity, its new gall... More

MATRIX/REDUX celebrates thirty years of the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art, spotlighting the vibrant work of many of the artists featured in the... More

One of the most ancient and revered of Hopi traditions is the snake dance, an intense and magical ritual performed at the close of a sixteen-day community... More