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  San Jose Museum of Art

  110 S. Market Street
  San Jose, CA 95113

  Phone: 408-271-6840   |   Fax: 408-294-2977   |   Email   |   Official Website

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    03/30/12- 08/26/12	Mexicanisimo through Artists' Eyes San Jose Museum of Art Mexicanisimo through Artists' Eyes Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art March 30-August 26, 2012 Traditional versus cutting edge, high-brow versus low-brow. A new generation of Mexican and Mexican-American artists is fascinated by these potentially contradictory concepts. These artists draw inspiration from Mexico's deep well of visual culture: folk art, popular culture, craft traditions, and contemporary idioms. The exhibition includes works by artists who enlist refined artisan's techniques (such as weaving, ceramics, and glass-blowing) to challenge today's mass-market consumer...
    02/18/12- 09/16/12	To Hell and Back... Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy San Jose Museum of Art To Hell and Back... Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art February 18-September 16, 2012 Police helicopters descend upon the streets of Los Angeles. Gas-guzzling SUVs overtake the streets of San Francisco. Fast-food emblems and corporate logos dominate the American landscape. Is it the 24-hour news channel, or a 21st-century take on a 14th-century classic? In 2003, artist Sandow Birk (with writer Marcus Sanders) relocated Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy into contemporary urban America. In his illustrations for the three books (Inferno,...
    02/03/12- 07/08/12	Renegade Humor - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art Renegade Humor - Exhibition Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art February 3-July 8, 2012 Bawdy irreverence, iconoclasm, parody, and puns are the hallmarks of the work spawned by the art department of the University of California, Davis, in the 1960s and 1970s. This exhibition begins with works by these artists--Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Peter VandenBerge, William T. Wiley, and others--and continues with works by later artists who have enlisted the fetching power of humor to make a point. New works by Kathy Aoki (large dress-up "paper" dolls of Newt...

• • Upcoming Events

    06/10/12	Summer Sundays San Jose Museum of Art Summer Sundays Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art June 10, 2012 Beat the summer heat and bring the whole family to the Museum to give art-making a try. Drop in on the second Sunday of the month for hands-on art activities and special family tours.
    07/08/12	Summer Sundays San Jose Museum of Art Summer Sundays Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art July 8, 2012 Beat the summer heat and bring the whole family to the Museum to give art-making a try. Drop in on the second Sunday of the month for hands-on activities and special family tours.
    08/12/12	Summer Sundays San Jose Museum of Art Summer Sundays Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art August 12, 2012 Beat the summer heat and bring the whole family to the Museum to give art-making a try. Drop in on the second Sunday of the month for hands-on art activities and special family tours.
    08/16/12	Third Thursday: Short Films San Jose Museum of Art Third Thursday: Short Films Presented by Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) at San Jose Museum of Art August 16, 2012 SJMA is pleased to partner with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) to present a special screening of short films that will take you on a heartwarming journey through personal stories and global experiences. The first of its kind at SJMA, this showcase brings together visions from all across the world, from Shanghai to Fremont. Many of these shorts were official selections of the 2012 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Special guest Masashi Niwano,...

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• Current Events

  03/30/12- 08/26/12	Mexicanisimo through Artists' Eyes San Jose Museum of Art Mexicanisimo through Artists' Eyes Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art March 30-August 26, 2012 Traditional versus cutting edge, high-brow versus low-brow. A new generation of Mexican and Mexican-American artists is fascinated by these potentially contradictory concepts. These artists draw inspiration from Mexico's deep well of visual culture: folk art, popular culture, craft traditions, and contemporary idioms. The exhibition includes works by artists who enlist refined artisan's techniques (such as weaving, ceramics, and glass-blowing) to challenge today's mass-market consumer...
  02/18/12- 09/16/12	To Hell and Back... Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy San Jose Museum of Art To Hell and Back... Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art February 18-September 16, 2012 Police helicopters descend upon the streets of Los Angeles. Gas-guzzling SUVs overtake the streets of San Francisco. Fast-food emblems and corporate logos dominate the American landscape. Is it the 24-hour news channel, or a 21st-century take on a 14th-century classic? In 2003, artist Sandow Birk (with writer Marcus Sanders) relocated Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy into contemporary urban America. In his illustrations for the three books (Inferno,...
  02/03/12- 07/08/12	Renegade Humor - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art Renegade Humor - Exhibition Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art February 3-July 8, 2012 Bawdy irreverence, iconoclasm, parody, and puns are the hallmarks of the work spawned by the art department of the University of California, Davis, in the 1960s and 1970s. This exhibition begins with works by these artists--Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Peter VandenBerge, William T. Wiley, and others--and continues with works by later artists who have enlisted the fetching power of humor to make a point. New works by Kathy Aoki (large dress-up "paper" dolls of Newt...

• Upcoming Events

  06/10/12	Summer Sundays San Jose Museum of Art Summer Sundays Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art June 10, 2012 Beat the summer heat and bring the whole family to the Museum to give art-making a try. Drop in on the second Sunday of the month for hands-on art activities and special family tours.
  07/08/12	Summer Sundays San Jose Museum of Art Summer Sundays Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art July 8, 2012 Beat the summer heat and bring the whole family to the Museum to give art-making a try. Drop in on the second Sunday of the month for hands-on activities and special family tours.
  08/12/12	Summer Sundays San Jose Museum of Art Summer Sundays Presented by San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose Museum of Art August 12, 2012 Beat the summer heat and bring the whole family to the Museum to give art-making a try. Drop in on the second Sunday of the month for hands-on art activities and special family tours.
  08/16/12	Third Thursday: Short Films San Jose Museum of Art Third Thursday: Short Films Presented by Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) at San Jose Museum of Art August 16, 2012 SJMA is pleased to partner with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) to present a special screening of short films that will take you on a heartwarming journey through personal stories and global experiences. The first of its kind at SJMA, this showcase brings together visions from all across the world, from Shanghai to Fremont. Many of these shorts were official selections of the 2012 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Special guest Masashi Niwano,...

Past
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• Past Events

  05/19/12	Free Community Day - Art and Music San Jose Museum of Art
  05/17/12	Creative Minds - Enrique Chagoya San Jose Museum of Art
  05/13/12	Asian Contemporary Art Week Tour San Jose Museum of Art
  05/12/12	DIY Art: Altar’d Emblems - Pop Tin Art San Jose Museum of Art
  05/02/12	Lunchtime Lecture: San Jose's Chicano Heritage San Jose Museum of Art
  04/19/12	3rd Thursday Special Screening & Poetry Invitational San Jose Museum of Art
  04/04/12	Lunchtime Lecture: Staging Carnage San Jose Museum of Art
  03/29/12	Opening Reception: Mexicanisimo through Artists' Eyes San Jose Museum of Art
  03/15/12	Comedy Night at the Museum San Jose Museum of Art
  03/07/12	Lunchtime Lecture: The Multiple Worlds of Dante San Jose Museum of Art
  03/03/12	DIY Art: Felted Dolls San Jose Museum of Art
  02/16/12	ArtRage: Mardi Gras San Jose Museum of Art
  02/04/12	Lunar New Year Community Day San Jose Museum of Art
  01/14/12	Creative Minds - The Thing Quarterly San Jose Museum of Art
  12/17/11	DIY Art San Jose Museum of Art
  12/15/11	Last-Minute-Shopping Night San Jose Museum of Art
  12/07/11	Lunchtime Lecture: Andrea Pappas San Jose Museum of Art
  12/03/11	DIY Art San Jose Museum of Art
  12/01/11	Gallery Talk: Joan Brown San Jose Museum of Art
  11/17/11	ArtRage San Jose Museum of Art
  11/06/11	Creative Minds - David Berkeley San Jose Museum of Art
  11/02/11	Expressions and Impressions of Joan Brown - Lunchtime Lecture San Jose Museum of Art
  10/29/11	Community Day: El Dia de Los Muertos San Jose Museum of Art
  10/22/11	Altered Books - DIY Art San Jose Museum of Art
  10/20/11	Haunted Happy Hour with Zombie-o-Rama San Jose Museum of Art
  10/14/11- 03/11/12	This Kind of Bird Flies Backward - Paintings by Joan Brown San Jose Museum of Art
  10/05/11	Chester Arnold, Artist - Lunchtime Lecture San Jose Museum of Art
  10/01/11- 03/04/12	Braving the Elements... Let's Look at Art Exhibitions San Jose Museum of Art
  09/25/11- 01/15/12	Book-ish - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  09/25/11- 01/15/12	So, Who Do You Think You Are? - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  09/24/11	Full Spectrum San Jose Museum of Art
  09/15/11	Bill Owens and Robert Harshorn Shimshak - Creative Minds (Book Signing and Discussion) San Jose Museum of Art
  09/10/11	Scan Jose - Historical Walking Tour of Downtown SJ San Jose Museum of Art
  09/07/11	Robert Crumb... The Long, Strange Trip from Zap to Genesis - Lunchtime Lecture San Jose Museum of Art
  08/27/11- 02/26/12	Beta Space by Anna Sew Hoy - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  08/20/11	Drawing Comic Books - DIY Art San Jose Museum of Art
  07/28/11	ArtRage San Jose Museum of Art
  07/21/11	R. Crumb's Book of Genesis - Gallery Talk San Jose Museum of Art
  07/16/11- 02/05/12	Ordinary Folks... Bill Owens, Artist - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  07/09/11	The Genesis of a Good Comic Book - DIY Art San Jose Museum of Art
  06/25/11	Architecture Tour, San Jose - SOLD OUT San Jose Museum of Art
  06/23/11- 09/25/11	The Bible Iluminated... R. Crumb's Book of Genesis - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  05/19/11	Creative Minds - Portraying an Era - Robert Mapplethorpe San Jose Museum of Art
  05/14/11	Art of India - Community Day San Jose Museum of Art
  04/09/11	Second Annual Poetry Invitational San Jose Museum of Art
  04/06/11	A Historical Survey of Indian Modern Art - Lunchtime Lecture San Jose Museum of Art
  03/31/11	Roots in the Air, Branches Below - Gallery Talk San Jose Museum of Art
  03/26/11- 08/14/11	Beta Space... Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa, Artists - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  03/25/11	Kaleidoscope - Eat. Play. Shop. San Jose Museum of Art
  03/03/11	Baatcheet - ArtRage (After-Hours Series) San Jose Museum of Art
  03/02/11	Understanding and Collecting Contemporary Indian Art - Lunchtime Lecture San Jose Museum of Art
  02/26/11	DIY Art - Musical Sculpture with Trimpin San Jose Museum of Art
  02/25/11- 09/04/11	Roots in the Air, Branches Below... Modern and Contemporary Art from India - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  02/05/11	Lunar New Year Community Day San Jose Museum of Art
  02/02/11	Race, Gender, and Sexual Identity in Contemporary Photography - Lunchtime Lecture San Jose Museum of Art
  01/29/11- 06/05/11	Robert Mapplethorpe... Portraits - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  01/29/11	Portraits of the Figure - DIY Art San Jose Museum of Art
  01/18/11- 04/17/11	Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral No. 2 - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  01/06/11	Shorty Fatz - Creative Minds Series San Jose Museum of Art
  01/05/11	Yes, But Is It Art?... Artmaking in a Digital Age - Lecture San Jose Museum of Art
  12/08/10- 12/31/11	Scaffolding + Sky - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  11/13/10	DIY Art - Digital Photography San Jose Museum of Art
  11/06/10	Creative Minds - Catherine Opie San Jose Museum of Art
  10/30/10	Community Day... El Dia de Los Muertos San Jose Museum of Art
  10/21/10	Gallery Talk on Leo Villareal San Jose Museum of Art
  10/16/10	DIY Art... Leo Villareal San Jose Museum of Art
  10/09/10	Full Spectrum Soiree - Museum Fundraiser San Jose Museum of Art
  10/01/10- 07/03/11	The Modern Photographer... Observation and Intention - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  09/18/10	Gift Horse (2010) San Jose Museum of Art
  09/16/10	Gallery Talk on Retro-Tech San Jose Museum of Art
  09/14/10- 09/18/11	Let's Look at Art... Build It - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  08/26/10	Vital Signs - Gallery Talk San Jose Museum of Art
  08/21/10- 01/09/11	Leo Villareal - Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  08/21/10	DIY Art... Summer Sketching San Jose Museum of Art
  07/24/10	DIY Art... Summer Sketching San Jose Museum of Art
  07/22/10- 02/06/11	Retro-Tech San Jose Museum of Art
  07/22/10	Art Rage - Party at the Museum San Jose Museum of Art
  07/22/10- 03/14/11	Degrees of Separation... Contemporary Photography San Jose Museum of Art
  07/19/10- 08/06/10	Kids Summer Art Camp - Sold Out! San Jose Museum of Art
  06/19/10	DIY Art... Summer Sketching San Jose Museum of Art
  06/12/10- 02/06/11	Vital Signs... New Media from the Permanent Collection San Jose Museum of Art
  05/18/10	International Museum Day San Jose Museum of Art
  05/13/10	Artist Talk with Tino Rodríguez San Jose Museum of Art
  04/24/10	7th Annual Spring Benefit San Jose Museum of Art
  04/14/10	Artist Talk with Bruce Yonemoto San Jose Museum of Art
  04/10/10	Poetry Invitational San Jose Museum of Art
  04/01/10	Artist Talk with Wayne Thiebaud - Sold Out San Jose Museum of Art
  03/19/10	28th SF International Asian American Film Festival - San Jose Opening Night Gala Reception San Jose Museum of Art
  03/13/10- 09/19/10	New Stories from the Edge of Asia... Plastic Life San Jose Museum of Art
  03/03/10	Gallery Talk about Real and HyperReal Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  02/27/10	Drawn to Art Workshop... Wayne Thiebaud San Jose Museum of Art
  02/16/10- 07/03/10	Wayne Thiebaud - Seventy Years of Painting San Jose Museum of Art
  02/14/10	Lunar New Year Celebration San Jose Museum of Art
  01/30/10- 08/01/10	Real and HyperReal Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  01/15/10	Gallery Talk about Juicy Paint Exhibition San Jose Museum of Art
  01/09/10	Drawn to Art Workshop... Juicy Paint San Jose Museum of Art
  12/22/09- 06/06/10	Juicy Paint San Jose Museum of Art
  11/18/09	Alexander Calder: The Collectors’ Perspectives San Jose Museum of Art
  11/05/09	Panel Discussion on Variations on a Theme San Jose Museum of Art
  11/01/09	Día de los Muertos San Jose Museum of Art