Exhibitions in San Francisco

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

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

Exploratorium

More than 50 interactive elements across eight sections reveal the maths, science and technology Pixar uses to make its films, with re-creations of Buzz Lightyear, WALL•E and more.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

SFMOMA's first major fashion show in over 40 years pairs couture by Dior, McQueen, Balenciaga and Miyake with sculpture by Bourgeois and Moore.

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).

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.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

Thirty-year retrospective of Rashid Johnson, over fifty works from the 1990s on, in its final stop after the Guggenheim and MCA Chicago.

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.