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Sunday, June 01, 2008

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	SoMa, Museums, Other Art Events Making Room For Wonder at SomArts Cultural Center (Gallery) (4pm)Gallery Hours: 2:00pm – 7:00pm ... Curator: Tirza True Latimer; Assoc. Curator: Robert C. Melton SomArts Galleries Wonder opens horizons of possibility beyond the constraints of “nature”... More

	SoMa, Museums, Art Festivals American Idyll at SomArts Cultural Center (Gallery) (6pm)6pm Art Reception; 7pm Performa... Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) presents American Idyll (The GAPA Show 2008), a multimedia event featuring visual arts, written word and performance... More

	SoMa, Museums Vito Acconci, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner at SFMOMA (Daily (except Wednesdays), 4pm) Total running time: 70 min. Daily (except Wednesdays), 2:30 p.m. Koret Visitor Education Center Program includes Home Movies (Vito Acconci, 1973, 33... More

	SoMa, Museums, Modern Art Museums Cut: Revealing the Section at SFMOMA (11am - 5:45pm, till 8:40pm on Thu) This dynamic selection drawn from the SFMOMA collection highlights the vital architectural concept of the section, a cross section of a building or object... More

	SoMa, Museums, Modern Art Museums Modern Masterworks from the Elise S. Haas Bequest at SFMOMA (11am - 5:45pm, till 8:40pm on Thu) It would be hard to overestimate the significance of the Elise S. Haas collection for SFMOMA. Made up of some 35 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper,... More

	Golden Gate Park, Museums, Natural History Museums The Butterfly Zone: The Conservatory of Flowers’ exhibition of live butterflies at Conservatory of Flowers (9 AM- 5 PM Closed Mondays) Fly on over to the Conservatory of Flowers this spring because the butterflies are back, and there are more than ever. The popular exhibit “The Butterfly... More		415-666-7001 Buy Tickets

	Civic Center, Museums, Cultural Museums In a New Light at Asian Art Museum (10am–5pm) More than 2500 extraordinary works from the museum’s collection are displayed in the museum’s permanent galleries. Artworks on view include monumental... More		415.581.3500

	Golden Gate Park, Museums, Fine Arts Museums Jane Hammond: Paper Work at de Young Museum (9:30am - 5:15pm, till 8:45pm on Friday) Featuring 35 unique paper objects, drawings and prints. For nearly two decades, New York artist Jane Hammond has been using a fixed lexicon of 276... More		415.750.3600

	Richmond (Outer), Museums, Fine Arts Museums Vollard, Editeur: Illustrated Books Published by the Legendary French Art Dealer at Legion of Honor (9:30am-5:15pm) Vollard, Editeur is the second in a series of exhibitions that focus on legendary publishers who were primarily art dealers. Ambroise Vollard (1865-1939)... More

	Richmond (Outer), Museums, Modern Art Museums Treasures From the Holy Land at Legion of Honor (9:30am-5:15pm) Including rotating examples of the rare Dead Sea Scroll fragments and other artifacts spanning more than 5,000 years. This exhibition includes rotating... More		415.750.3614

	Civic Center, Museums, Cultural Museums Later Chinese Jades at Asian Art Museum (10am–5pm) Jades from the Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century.		415.581.3500

	Mission, Museums, Other Art Events Intersection 2008 Annual Fundraising Art Auction & Birthday Party at Intersection for the Arts (noon - 7pm ) Gallery Hours: Sun - Sat, 12 - 7pm, FREE Auction: Friday June 6, 2008 @ 7pm (Live Auction Begins @ 8:30pm) Tickets:$20 Intersection's biggest... More		Buy Tickets

	SoMa, Museums Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love. at Cartoon Art Museum (11am-5pm)		415.CARTOON

	Mission, Museums, Art Festivals, Art Organizations Quarter Century at Creativity Explored (Mon- Fr 10 a.m -3 p.m.; Th 10-7 p.m.; Sat 1-6 p.m.) This May marks the 25th year that this extraordinary art center has been changing lives through art. To celebrate this important milestone, the gallery... More		415.863.2108 Buy Tickets

	San Francisco, Museums, Other Art Events "The Other Afghanistan" at World Affairs Council (0:00) 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		415-293-4600

	SoMa, Museums, Modern Art Museums New Work: Paul Sietsema at SFMOMA (11am - 5:45pm, till 8:40pm on Thu) 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

	SoMa, Museums, Modern Art Museums In Collaboration at SFMOMA (11am - 5:45pm, till 8:40pm on Thu) 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

	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

	Civic Center, Museums, Fine Arts Museums Art & Artifice: 75 Years of Design at San Francisco Ballet at Museum of Performance & Design (Wednesday-Saturday 12:00-5:00 pm) The Museum of Performance & Design (MPD), formerly the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, unveils its new identity, its new gall... More		415.255.4800

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