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Party Earth Review Anyone yearning to geek out inside a multimillion-dollar science museum with the added bonus of booze should head to Golden Gate Park on Thursdays for NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences. Since 2009, the Academy has stayed open late once a week to give the 21+ crowd full run of the place, with an ever-changing ... more
55 Music Concourse Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
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Mar 9-Jun 2, 2013 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Widely acknowledged as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, Garry Winogrand (1928-1984 ... more
151 3rd St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Info The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Downtown San Francisco houses an impressive and internationally celebrated collection of contemporary and modern art. It is considered the first museum on the West Coast to dedicate its offering entirely to 20th-century art. Designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta and founded in ... more
151 3rd St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
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Mar 9-Jun 2, 2013 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Working across a wide range of media — performance, video, sound, photography, drawings, and sculpture — San Francisco ... more
151 3rd St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
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Party Earth Review With its Burberry-plaid and gold-plated AK-47 over the bar and a mirror-covered bomb standing in for a disco ball, Madrone Art Bar already eschews the typical club look. Add to this a jumbled hodgepodge of paintings, sculptures, and video displays, a few snaking wooden chandeliers, and wildly varied music, and it’s no wonder ... more
500 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
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Apr 6-Jun 2, 2013 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Christian Marclay's celebrated video installation The Clock (2010) is composed of thousands of film clips referencing ... more
151 3rd St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Info The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco boasts more than 17,000 works of art and artifacts from all major Asian countries, including Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, China, Korea, South Asia, West Asia, and Japan. Some pieces are nearly 6,000 years old. Chicago millionaire Avery Brundage was a major collector of Asian art and ... more
200 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
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Apr 1-May 31, 2013 San Francisco Public Library (Main Library) The Library's annual wit & humor exhibition examines the subject of work. Most of our lives are taken ... more
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
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"My Take: Nestled among the hustle and bustle of the NOPA neighborhood on Divisadero is magical store called Sanfranpscyho. I had heard of this mecca o ..." more
505 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
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Feb 16-Jun 2, 2013 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Architect Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) dedicated his career to probing architecture's potential to transform the individual ... more
151 3rd St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Art Gallery / Bar / Club
Party Earth Review With stark white walls, gnarled wooden sculptures, and wide-open dance floors, 111 Minna is what might happen if an art gallery and bar/restaurant gave birth to a club. During the day, the two-room venue doubles as a gallery, attracting erstwhile creative types and trendy intellectuals with widely varied rotating ... more
111 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
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Apr 1-May 31, 2013 San Francisco Public Library (Main Library) Libraries typically don’t invite laughter, but at the annual San Francisco Public Library Annual Wit ... more
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
SF Art Overview
If you’re looking for awesome art in San Francisco, you’re in for a treat – this fun-filled city by the bay is as dedicated to creative outlets as it is to the next great progressive cause. From the multi-level contemporary abundance at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in SoMa to the kitsch-filled Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum in Fisherman’s Wharf and everything in between, this town packs in a lot of artsy venues.
A visit to the Exploratorium is a must for first-time visitors and long-time residents alike, featuring more than six hundred hands-on exhibits that will thrill people of all ages, including a tornado maker, illusion room, and crazy experiments in sound. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is a famous multidisciplinary arts center that presents visual and performing arts, films, and public programs all year, while war history buffs will want to check out the USS Pampanito, an authentic WWII submarine moored at Pier 45.
All across town, cool galleries and fun-filled creative exhibits await, and include world-famous venues like the California Academy of Sciences – home to an aquarium, planetarium, natural history museum, and a real four-story rainforest – to lesser known but very important spots like the GLBT History Museum.
Those who want to spy some art and also get a drink will love 111 Minna, which is a combination art gallery, bar/restaurant, and club, while those who want to spy some natural art that spies them back should make for the Aquarium of the Bay, which is home to forty thousand sharks, rays, skates, and other local marine animals.
In the midst of all this, you’ve got the underground art scene in SF, with lots of little galleries tucked away featuring awesome and bizarre local art and shows that can be both creatively inspiring and eye-numbingly bad.
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