Exhibitions in San Francisco

de Young Museum

Over 100 works by more than 70 artists, from Rothko and Diebenkorn to Jay DeFeo and Bruce Conner, on San Francisco as a postwar launchpad (1945–1969).

Legion of Honor

Nearly 50 photographs from the Achenbach collection, many never shown, from Baldus to Atget and Brassaï, tracing how the camera built the myth of modern Paris.

Exploratorium

Four short films in the Osher Gallery 1 Microcinema, including Leonard Cohen's Plato and Jessica Yu's Sour Death Balls, reflect playfully on what it is to be human. 32 minutes.

Legion of Honor

The first major US retrospective of the Tunisian-born Paris couturier: 80 garments, including designs worn by Tina Turner, Grace Jones and Rihanna.

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary ArtsFree

Rayyane Tabet sets his own postcard collection beside the late Jay DeFeo's in an immersive installation of shared images and uncanny cross-generational echoes.

The Walt Disney Family Museum

Around 200 works by Eyvind Earle, the color stylist behind Sleeping Beauty's jewel-toned look, from his Disney years to his fine art, with newly acquired pieces.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Paul Klee and the modern fascination with masks, linking ancient ritual, psychology, theatre and caricature, alongside Man Ray and Claude Cahun.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

A design show on how objects shape the way we eat, and how dining becomes a communal and cultural experience.

de Young Museum

Boldly coloured paintings by Mathias Kauage and his family, charting Papua New Guinea's changes before and after independence in 1975.

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

Oakland artist Stephanie Syjuco's first major hometown show: photographs, collages and installations that cut, crumple and rephotograph US archive images.

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

PJ Anderson, Jacqueline Bishop and Sharon Norwood explore how Jamaican identity is carried and remade through ornament and ceramics across the diaspora.

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

First major museum retrospective of Bay Area artist Dewey Crumpler, pairing five decades of paintings with new kinetic installations across all three floors.

de Young Museum

Art, ceremony and land among the Karuk, Yurok, Hupa, Tolowa, Tsnungwe and Wiyot peoples of northwestern California, with new commissions by contemporary artists.

de Young Museum

Bay Area artists working in ceramics, photography and painting treat the surfaces of bodies and objects as sites of identity, especially womanhood.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

Los Angeles painter Sarah Cain, a UC Berkeley MFA, improvises a site-specific painted installation across the museum's atrium.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

Posters Gvido Augusts designed for Godard's first Berkeley visit in 1968, commissioned by the Pacific Film Archive's Tom Luddy.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Pencil-on-paper drawings by self-described artivist Orlando Smith, chronicling the criminal legal system and abuses of power.

Minnesota Street ProjectFree

Shepard Fairey's outdoor Frida Kahlo mural, made alongside his Toyroom Gallery show Fractured, on Indiana Street at 1231 25th St.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

Oakland artist Marcel Pardo Ariza's site-specific Art Wall installation pays homage to the art handlers who care for museum collections.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

A yearlong collection show on utopia, drawing on works from many periods and places to imagine spiritual, social and political possibilities.

de Young Museum

The first exhibition devoted to Andrew Wyeth's watercolors: nearly 80 works, many never shown, of rural Pennsylvania and coastal Maine, with some of his paintings.

Legion of Honor

A focused look at À toute épreuve (1958), the Miró and Paul Éluard book for which Miró cut more than 230 woodblocks, the high point of his work as an illustrator.

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

Across art, activism and culture, how California's flowers have carried meanings of beauty, resistance, healing and connection.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

A new commission by Pulitzer-winning composer Raven Chacon reimagining the landscapes of Navajo Nation as a speculative future.

Fort Mason Center for Arts & CultureFree

Mural across 18 painted loading docks between Buildings B and C, shifting from sunrise to sunset and sky to sea. Fort Mason's 50th-anniversary commission.

de Young Museum

Nigerian painter Nengi Omuku's first US solo museum show: dreamlike scenes painted on handwoven Yoruba sanyan cloth, alongside works from the arts of Africa collection.

de Young Museum

The biggest reinstallation of the Indigenous American collection in 20 years: four galleries on 'Relationship to Place', developed with Native scholars and communities.