Arts & Entertainment New Contemporary Art Museum Now Open In Downtown SF, and It's Free The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) opened as planned over the weekend in its new digs in The Cube building at 345 Montgomery Street.
Arts & Entertainment Institute of Contemporary Art Moving to Downtown SF's 'Cube' Building The two-year-old Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is expanding and moving to a new space in San Francisco's Financial District, in a deal with a real estate investment firm.
Arts & Entertainment Most SF Museums Will Be Free the First Weekend In December, Thanks to Anonymous Donors 21 museums across San Francisco will be open to the public free of charge on the weekend of December 3, thanks to some generous, anonymous patrons of the arts who are underwriting the weekend.
Arts & Entertainment New Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco Announces Opening Date, First Exhibitions, New $1M Gift San Francisco's newest art museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICASF), is readying for an October opening, and this week the non-collecting museum announces its latest philanthropic bequest.
Arts & Entertainment Exploratorium’s New Executive Director is a Former PBS Exec Who Is Quite Buff A national search for the Exploratorium’s new chief has yielded the former CEO of PBS North Carolina Lindsay Bierman, who digs weightlifting and CBD.
Arts & Entertainment Institute of Contemporary Art to Open in San Francisco's Dogpatch Next Year San Francisco is getting an Institute of Contemporary Art — a new contemporary art museum without a permanent collection — in the already artsy Dogpatch neighborhood, and it's being partially bankrolled by the same folks behind the Minnesota Street Project.
Arts & Entertainment OMCA Will Reopen to the Public June 18; Admission Free for Opening Weekend After being closed for over a year, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will reopen to the public on June 18 — which will also kick-off the museum's three free community access days.
Arts & Entertainment The Legion of Honor Readies for May 7 Reopening San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum is set to reopen next month, on May 7, with two new exhibits — one of which celebrates the culture of food and drink in Pompeii, which the museum's director says was “kind of the Sonoma Valley of ancient Rome.”
Arts & Entertainment The Castro's Renowned GLBT Historical Society Museum Now Open to the Public Over the past few days, many of San Francisco's bastions for arts and culture have started to emerge from their SIP-spun chrysalises, welcoming the public back into their hallowed halls — and The Castro's beloved GLBT Historical Society Museum is among one of them.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Set To Reopen Next Week With New Large-Scale Wall Projects, Pandemic-Inspired Artwork Many of San Francisco's notable art hubs — like the de Young Museum and Asian Art Museum — opened this week at 25 percent capacity. And SFMOMA, too, is set to open its doors on October 1, revealing a new indoor mural and a timely collection featuring Bay Area artists’ responses to the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Dinosaur Train’ Host Named New Director of the Academy of Sciences You may know him as “paleontologist Dr. Scott” of the PBS kids show “Dinosaur Train,” but he’s now California Academy of Sciences executive director Dr. Scott Sampson.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stop Everything! An Ice Cream Museum Is Coming To SF San Francisco is now exclusively just colorful pop-up interactive art exhibits. Fresh of the coattails of the current (and newly extended through September) Color Factory, Eater brings us word that the Museum of
SF News Half Of The Mexican Museum's Collection Is Potentially Inauthentic Or 'Insignificant' Founded by the late Peter Rodriguez, the Mexican Museum has been a part of San Francisco's cultural community since 1975. But as the museum has grown its collection into a body of Latino
Arts & Entertainment Solange Will Grace SFMOMA's Birthday Bash In April Her sister Beyonce headlines venues like Levi's Stadium, but Solange is apparently more at home in a museum setting. A year ago in April, SFMOMA threw open its doors to show off the
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Coolest Niche Museums In San Francisco The Barbra Streisand Museum may be long gone, but SF has a great tradition of small, neighborhood-focused and niche museums, some zanier than others, dating back to the late 1960's when physicist and
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Potentially Dicey Stipulations In SFMOMA's Agreements Surrounding The Fisher Collection As you're likely well aware by now, the newly reopened SFMOMA now has more than half of its expanded gallery space devoted to paintings and sculptures that are part of the Doris and
Arts & Entertainment Renderings Released For Asian Art Museum Expansion The Asian Art Museum, though not without critics of its layout and curation, has come a long way since its start as wing in the old deYoung. Earlier this year, its 50th birthday,
SF News Oakland Museum Debuts Warriors Exhibit Because Team Is Precious Work Of Art The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), previously the Oakland Museum, is an interdisciplinary museum founded in 1969 and respected for its collections of art, such as the work of the craftsman movement, to
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Wind-Powered Walking Dutch Sculptures Arriving At The Exploratorium Next Week 'Strandbeests' is Dutch for beach animals because it's the beach that physicist/artist Theo Jansen designed his kinetic sculptures to navigate. "They have to survive the storms, the water, the sand," Jansen tells
Arts & Entertainment Cool Time-Lapse Of SFMOMA's Construction, Plus John King's Final Word On The New Wing The new, enormous SFMOMA addition designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta has some early fans, as well as some early critics, as we discussed last week. We had to wait until this weekend's Sunday
Arts & Entertainment Early Reactions To New SFMOMA Building Very Mixed, Include IKEA Comparison The bold, new Snøhetta-designed addition to the SFMOMA that we took you inside yesterday is already garnering some mixed emotions from architecture critics, and while we await the official word from the Chronicle's
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Peek Inside The Brand New SFMOMA, Opening May 14th The first thing you'll notice when you arrive at the new SFMOMA will be a massive sculpture. The only question is whether it will be by Alexander Calder or Richard Serra. The original
SF News Legion Of Honor, de Young Museums Hike Adult Ticket Prices By 50% While a move approved yesterday to increase ticket prices by 50 percent at two premiere San Francisco museums might be seen as something of an art heist, the de Young Museum and Legion
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Museum Of CA Opening First Mainstream Marijuana Exhibit In US While the only glass many Californians want between them and their marijuana might be in the form of a bong, museum patrons can soon see plenty of pot, presented behind glass like artwork
SF News Asian Art Museum To Add New Wing For 'Cutting Edge' Contemporary Art The Asian Art Museum, the Chronicle recalls, grew from a wing of the old deYoung in the '60s to its own full-fledged operation in the former San Francisco main library in 2003. And
