May 2026
May 2026 at a glance: 6 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 12 more were on view across the city.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)
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
The biggest reinstallation of the Indigenous American collection in 20 years: four galleries on 'Relationship to Place', developed with Native scholars and communities.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.