Exhibitions in San Francisco

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.

Letterform Archive

Reading Room pop-up by Radical Characters: 50 international designers and 100+ publications on typography, language and Hanzi in East Asian visual culture. Now by appointment only.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

A sweeping survey of the Mexico City photographer's black-and-white images of uncanny scenes, ritual and dreamlike traditions.

Minnesota Street Project · Free

Signs Lindsey White painted, printed or otherwise made in the past year for her exhibitions and gatherings, at Casemore Gallery.

Minnesota Street Project · Free

Violist and artist Angie Zheng turns four sound- and print-based projects into a multi-channel listening installation that unsettles composer, performer and audience roles.

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.

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.

Asian Art Museum

First solo museum show for self-taught Korean woodturner Kim Minwook, whose sculptures let the cracks, knots and grain of weathered wood shape the finished form.

Minnesota Street Project

di Rosa SF celebrates The Dome, the live-work community Peter Voulkos founded in 1976 in a former dome-shaped factory, with works by founding members and today's artists.

The Walt Disney Family Museum

Disneyland at 70: concept art, designs, costume sketches, hand-drawn maps and rare photos trace how Walt's first park came to be. Curated by Disney Legend Don Hahn.

Exploratorium

Could you survive in space? Playful science, art and hands-on exhibits on space suits, space food, zero gravity and the hunt for alien life, including Suzanne Anker's Astroculture.

Minnesota Street Project · Free

Avatar-artist LaTurbo Avedon curates seven artists, including Arvida Byström and Signe Pierce, on the simulated body, identity and intimacy online since 2009.

Legion of Honor

The first major US Etruscans show in two decades: 150+ bronzes, terracottas and gold jewelry, including the Liver of Piacenza, shown outside Italy for the first time.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

The story of how Matisse's 1905 portrait of his wife, SFMOMA's own icon, scandalised Paris and ignited the Fauvist colour revolution.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Last chance: walk through Eliasson's arched tunnel of prismatic colour on Floor 5 before it closes on 4 October.

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

The first major museum survey of Bay Area artist Mildred Howard: five decades of collage, sculpture and installation exploring memory and African American identity.

Asian Art Museum

Chinese landscape paintings of rivers and mountains that invite a quiet, spiritual encounter with nature.

Asian Art Museum

A tea-stained watercolour project linking the museum's galleries to overlooked beauty in the cracks, stains and markings of city streets.

Asian Art Museum · Free

Kayan Cheung-Miaw's outdoor mural on the Hyde Street Art Wall sees San Francisco's Chinatown through a child's eyes: noodles, bees, bus drivers and the sound of a gao hu.

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts · Free

A multi-part video installation that reacts to live seismic data: animated creatures freeze whenever an earthquake or tremor strikes somewhere on Earth.

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts · Free

Justin Caguiat and Rafael Delacruz's first West Coast institutional show: a new film, installation, paintings and prints riffing on Chaplin's Tramp in Oakland.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

The most significant retrospective of Maren Hassinger, spanning sculpture, performance, video and installation from the early 1970s to today.

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

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

de Young Museum · Free

Two custom cars by Santa Clara Pueblo artist Rose B. Simpson, painted with Pueblo pottery designs, fill Wilsey Court against a vast geometric backdrop.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

From packed nightclubs to choreographed stage performance, photographs from the collection that capture the energy of dance.

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.

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.

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.

Minnesota Street Project · Free

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

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.