January Arts

Welcome to the newly updated version of NOXP’s Monthly Arts post!  This page can always be found at the top bar of NOXP at all times, making it easy for you to access.  Instead of only focusing on exhibits that are opening and closing each month, this new monthly art page will list all exhibits on show at a particular museum that month.  This will give a better all around overview of what is on show at any specific museum.  For museums that also house a permanent collection, I’ve included a small overview and links to those collections as well.

I do not list any exhibits showing in galleries because that would create a never-ending page!  But I do highly recommend visiting the many art galleries located in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area.  On the first Thursday of each month, art galleries in San Francisco stay open late and are filled with festive art-lovers.  Oakland and San Jose have a similar event held on the first Friday of each month.

The museums are listed below in alphabetical order, starting with those in San Francisco and ending with those outside of the City.  Enjoy!

———-  San Francisco Museums  ———-

Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street, San Francisco (on Civic Center Plaza) – www.asianart.org

Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art – ending this month on January 8th!

Maharaja: The Splendor of India’s Royal Courts – on exhibit until April 8th, 2012.

Deities, Demons, and Dudes with ‘Staches: Indian Avatars by Sanjay Patel – on exhibit until April 22nd, 2012.

The museum’s permanent collection is one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world.  It consists of approximately 17,000 objects that span 6,000 years.  You can see the highlights of the permanent collection here.

The Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street, San Francisco – www.cartoonart.org

Last Stop: Troubletown – ending this month on January 22nd!

Small Press Spotlight on LGBTQ Cartoonists – on exhibit until March 4th, 2012.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – on exhibit until April 15th, 2012.

Black and White and Read All Over – on exhibit until May 6th, 2012.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, San Francisco – www.thecjm.org

Houdini: Art and Magic – ending this month on January 16th!

Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations – on exhibit until February 28th, 2012.

Stanley Saitowitz: Judaica - on exhibit until October 16th, 2012.

California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present – on exhibit until October 16th, 2012.

de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco (in Golden Gate Park) – www.famsf.org

Surface Tension: Contemporary Prints from the Anderson Collection – ending this month on January 15th!

Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna – on exhibit until February 12th, 2012.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks – on exhibit until February 26th, 2012.

The Art of the Anatolian Kilim: Highlights from the McCoy Jones Collection – on exhibit until June 10th, 2012.

Matter + Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler – opening this month on January 14th.

The permanent collection of the de Young is rather diverse.  It holds pieces of American art from all periods, along with art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas.  The collection also contains costumes and textiles from a wide variety of Eastern and Western traditions.  You can read more about the collection here.

Legion of Honor Museum
100 34th Avenue, San Francisco (in Lincoln Park) – www.famsf.org

The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy – closing this month on January 1st!

Artistic San Francisco – closing this month on January 22nd!

Pissarro’s People – closing this month on January 22nd!

Favorite Things: An Exhibit of Artist Books in Memory of David Logan, 1918-2011 – on exhibit until February 12th, 2012.

Bernini’s Medusa – on exhibit until February 19th, 2012.

The museum’s permanent collection largely consists of European artwork – with three galleries of sculpture by Auguste Rodin.  It also holds ancient art from throughout the Mediterranean and the Near East.  To read more about the Legion of Honor’s permanent collection, click here.

Museo Italo Americano
Fort Mason Center, Building C, San Francisco – www.museoitaloamericano.org

John Grillo: The Birth of Abstract Expressionism – on exhibit until February 19th, 2012.

Museum of Craft and Folk Art
51 Yerba Buena Lane, San Francisco – www.mocfa.org

Fiat Lux: Randy Colosky New Works – on exhibit until March 10, 2012.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 3rd Street, San Francisco – www.sfmoma.org

Images in Dialogue: Paul Klee and Andrew Schoultz – closing this month on January 8th!

Richard Serra Drawings: A Retrospective – closing this month on January 16th!

Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break – closing this month on January 16th!

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams – on exhibit until February 20th, 2012.

Francesca Woodman – on exhibit until February 20th, 2012

The Air We Breathe – on exhibit until February 20th, 2012.

New Work: Richard Aldrich – on exhibit until March 25th, 2012.

2012 SECA Art Award: Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, Kamau Amu Patton – on exhibit until April 3rd, 2012.

Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards – on exhibit until April 3rd, 2012.

Jim Campbell: Explored Views – on exhibit until September 25, 2012.

The museum’s permanent collection consists of 26,000 pieces of modern and contemporary art.  It has strong holdings in photography, paintings, sculpture, design and new media arts.  Click here to read more about SFMOMA’s collection.

The SFO Museum
Located within the San Francisco International Airport – www.sfomuseum.org

International Terminal

Moto Bellissima: Italian Motorcycles from the 1950s and 1960s – on exhibit until April 2012.

Automata: Mechanical Wonders of the Nineteenth Century – on exhibit until May 2012.

A World Examined: Microscopes from the Age of Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century – on exhibit until June 2012

Terminal 1

Noah Wilson: Our Land – closing this month!

Youthful Expressions of San Francisco’s Architectural Beauty: The San Francisco School – closing this month!

Hydration, Libation, and Lift: Airline Inflight Beverage Service – on exhibit until July 2012.

Terminal 2

Aqua Via: Images from the San Francisco System Improvement Program – closing this month!

James Adamson: Ice Adventure - on exhibit until February 2012.

Revolutions per Minute: The Evolution of the Record – on exhibit until March 2012.

Terminal 3

Michael Ross: The Road to Timbuktu – on exhibit until February 2012.

Television: TV in the Antenna Age - on exhibit until February 2012.

Aviation Museum

Postwar Propliners in Miniature: Models from the Collection of Anthony J. Lawler - closing this month!

SFO Terminal 2: Origin | Renovation – closing this month!

Pacific Passage: The Birth of Intercontinental Commercial Air Service - on exhibit until February 2012.

Financing Pan Am: The Jon E. Krupnick Scripophily Collection - on exhibit until March 2012.

The many of the SFO Museum’s exhibits are located in pre-TSA locations – meaning you don’t need to have a plane ticket to see them.  Please check the museum’s website to see the exact locations of their exhibits.

———-  Outside of San Francisco  ———-

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley (between College and Telegraph) – www.bampfa.berkeley.edu

Silke Otto-Knapp: A light in the moon / MATRIX 239 - closing this month on January 15th!

1991: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath Photographs by Richard Misrach – on exhibit until February 5th, 2012.

Richard Misrach: Photographs from the Collection – on exhibit until February 5th, 2012.

Thom Faulders: BAMscape – on exhibit until April 15th, 2012.

Sun Works – on exhibit until May 6th, 2012.

Himalayan Pilgrimage: Journey to the Land of Snows – on exhibit until June 30th, 2013.

The Reading Room – opening this month on January 15th!

Abstract Expressionisms: Painting and Drawings from the Collection – opening this month on January 18th!

Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240 – opening this month on January 27th!

Tables of Content: Ray Johnson and Robert Warner Bob Box Archive / MATRIX 240 – opening this month on January 27th!

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford – museum.stanford.edu

Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation 1876-1936 - closing this month on January 1st!

The Legend of Rex Slinkard – on exhibit until February 26th, 2012.

Oakland Museum of California
100 Oak Street, Oakland – www.museumca.org

A Walk in the Wild: Continuing John Muir’s Journey – closing this month on January 22nd!

1991: Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath, Photographs by Richard Misrach – on exhibit until February 12th, 2012.

Question Bridge: Black Males – opening this month on January 20th!

The museum’s permanent collection consists of artwork, historical artifacts, ethnographic materials, natural specimens and photographs that represent the legacy of California and its people.  You can read more about the collection here.

The San Jose Museum of Art
110 South Market Street, San Jose – www.sjmusart.org

Book-ish – closing this month on January 15th!

So, Who Do You Think You Are? – closing this month on January 15th!

Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks – on exhibit until February 5th, 2012.

Beta Space: Anna Sew Hoy – on exhibit until February 26th, 2012.

Braving the Elements: Let’s Look at Art – on exhibit until August 12th, 2012.

This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown – on exhibit until March 11th, 2012.

The museum’s collection focuses on the 20th and  21st centuries.  It has a focus on new media, West Coast artists and recent movements in art history.  You can learn more about the collection here.

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