Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family
March 30, 2024 - December 6, 2026
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Four paintings trace family, cultural change, and contemporary life in Papua New Guinea.
Free Saturdays at the Legion of Honor
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026
Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Bay Area residents can visit the Legion of Honor’s permanent collection without general-admission ...
Free Saturdays at the de Young
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Bay Area residents can visit the de Young’s permanent collection without general-admission charge ...
Rooted in Place: California Native Art
August 26, 2025 - December 6, 2026
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Visual Arts
Arts of Indigenous America
August 26, 2025 - August 31, 2028
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Visual Arts
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON
August 30, 2025 - February 7, 2027
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Rose B. Simpson brings Pueblo pottery, cars, and mixed media into a language of identity and continu...
This Asian American Life
September 19, 2025 - November 2, 2026
Asian Art Museum
A child’s perspective reveals moments of beauty and wonder amid daily life in Chinatown.
Black Creativity
November 6, 2025 - October 31, 2026
African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC)
Exhibitions, Visual Arts, Staff Picks
Modern and Contemporary American Abstraction
November 19, 2025 - October 26, 2026
Cantor Arts Center
Recent acquisitions trace mid-century American abstraction through works by Pollock, Kline, Miyasaki...
Emory Douglas: In Our Lifetime
December 5, 2025 - October 31, 2026
African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC)
Exhibitions, Visual Arts, Staff Picks
Al-An deSouza: Table Settings
April 9 - November 2
Asian Art Museum
An ambitious watercolor project connects the museum collection to moments of beauty in overlooked pl...
The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy
May 2 - September 20
Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Exhibitions, Visual Arts
Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs
May 16, 2026 - February 28, 2027
SFMOMA
Photographs capture the energy, discipline, rhythm, and social life of dance.
Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
June 6 - November 29
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Visual Arts, Exhibitions
Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory
June 12 - October 18
Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)
Visual Arts, Exhibitions, Race + Politics, Staff Picks
Nengi Omuku: The Gathering
June 27, 2026 - May 14, 2028
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Nengi Omuku’s dreamlike paintings on sanyan imagine gathering, possibility, and a better future.
JANE!
July 2, 2026 - May 18, 2028
Cantor Arts Center
An exhibition examines the Gilded Age life, collections and death of Stanford cofounder Jane Stanfor...
Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds
July 11 - November 29
SFMOMA
A five-decade survey of Graciela Iturbide’s poetic black-and-white photography.
O. Smith: Artivist
July 25, 2026 - June 20, 2027
SFMOMA
Drawings and illustrated journalism by artist and activist Orlando Smith.
Miró: Proof Against All
July 25, 2026 - July 25, 2027
Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Joan Miró’s eighty color woodcuts turn Paul Éluard’s poetry into a landmark artist’s book.
Kim Minwook: On Carving, Bending, and Binding Wood
July 30, 2026 - March 29, 2027
Asian Art Museum
Kim Minwook works with wood shaped by weather, time, and nature.
Treasures of the Pharaohs
August 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
The exhibition Treasures of the Pharaohs features 130 exquisite works that exemplify the grandeur of...
GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain
August 7, 2026 - January 3, 2027
YBCA | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
GaHee Park’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States presents recent surrealist p...
Visions of the Future
August 10 @ 8:00 AM - October 23 @ 5:00 PM PDT
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center
Visual Arts
Woody De Othello: coming forth by day
August 12 - December 5
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Oakland artist Woody De Othello explores relationships among body, earth, spirit, and material memor...
Out of Line: Art at the Edge
August 12 - December 5
What happens when the artist’s studio spills out into the world—and when the world necessarily m...
Yesterday Once More: Scenes from the Past
August 13 - October 10
The Bankhead Theater
A free joint exhibition with Pleasanton’s Harrington Gallery brings together artworks shaped by no...
A Gallery of Their Own: Women Artists from the Carr and Goldblum Gift
August 15, 2026 - February 14, 2027
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Photographs, prints, and drawings celebrate women artists who expanded their media.
Surface Tension: Artists from the Svane Gift and Beyond
August 15, 2026 - April 11, 2027
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Eight Bay Area artists treat surfaces as sites of identity, tension, and material possibility.
Thresholds of Memory
August 20 - October 25
Miro Gallery
Namita Paul’s mixed-media textile installation examines memory, architecture, home, displacement a...
Community Day at AAACC
August 22 - October 10
African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC)
Community
AURA at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral
August 22 - September 30
Grace Cathedral
Visual Arts, Family + Relationships, Staff Picks
The Jury Experience: Killer AI — Who Pays the Price?
August 22, 2026 - January 9, 2027
Brava Theater Center
Theater + Film
Dear San Francisco: The Intimate Circus Experience
August 22, 2026 - January 10, 2027
Club Fugazi
Dance, Live Music, Theater + Film, Staff Picks
Art from Contemporary Cambodia
August 27, 2026 - January 25, 2027
Asian Art Museum
Two leading Cambodian artists draw from memory, history, and the environmental crisis to create stri...
Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons
August 28, 2026 - February 26, 2027
St. Ignatius Church
Live Music, Staff Picks
Musical Story Time with the Berkeley Public Library Story Time Band
September 3 - December 3
The Freight
Berkeley Public Library’s Story Time Band brings free, interactive music and read-aloud stories to...
The Cook
September 4 - October 11
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley Rep opens its 2026–27 season with Eduardo Machado’s The Cook.
Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons
September 5 - December 4
Hammer Theatre
Live Music, Staff Picks
Eternal Paris: Photographing the City of Light
September 5, 2026 - April 4, 2027
Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Nearly fifty photographs trace how artists pictured and preserved the changing City of Light.
Conundrum Chronicles (A StorySlam)
September 8 - October 13
The Marsh
Where Stories are Told * Moral Dilemmas Unfold * Judgements are Bold!
Alice, Formerly of Wonderland
December 2 - December 27
Lucie Stern Theatre
Based on a true story, Mark Saltzman’s a cappella musical explores the relationship between Alice ...
Flower Piano 2026
September 10 - September 20
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Food + Drink, Live Music, Visual Arts
Legally Blonde The Musical
September 11 - October 11
The Julia Morgan Theatre
Berkeley Playhouse presents the stage musical based on the story of Elle Woods.
Little Shop of Horrors
September 12 - October 18
New Conservatory Theatre Center
NCTC stages the cult musical about a florist, fame and a plant with a dangerous appetite.
Paul Sussman: Did She Really Say “Tantrum Yoga?”
September 12 @ 5:00 PM - October 10 @ 5:00 PM PDT
The Marsh
Paul Sussman’s solo show mixes satire, urgency and reflection in a Saturday run at The Marsh.
Branford Marsalis & Dianne Reeves Celebrate John Coltrane
September 17 - September 20
SFJAZZ Center
Branford Marsalis and his quartet join vocalist Dianne Reeves for four performances honoring John Co...
Solid Pictures: Photosculpture and the Making of Modern Likeness
September 17, 2026 - January 18, 2027
Cantor Arts Center
The first major exhibition devoted to photosculpture explores a nineteenth-century precursor to 3D s...
Lady Stout & Nurenssnce
September 18 - September 20
Black Cat
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:Sep 18: 7:00 PM and 9:30 PMSep 19: 7:00 PM and 9:30 PMSep 20: 7:00 PM and 9:15 ...
BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration
September 18 - December 27
Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)
Visual Arts, Exhibitions, Race + Politics, Education, Staff Picks
Garuda in Bali
September 18, 2026 - January 4, 2027
Asian Art Museum
Remarkable Balinese sculptures and paintings unfold the epic story of the bird-warrior who became th...
Kountry Wayne
September 18 @ 7:30 PM - September 20 @ 7:00 PM PDT
Tommy T’s Comedy Club
Kountry Wayne brings Southern charm and relatable storytelling to Tommy T’s for a five-show weeken...
Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival
September 19 - September 20
Old Mill Park
Visual Arts, Fairs + Festivals, Food + Drink
Clonetopia 2026 II: NorCal Clone Release Festival
September 19 - September 20
7 Stars Holistic Healing Center
Conversations + Speakers + Conferences, Visual Arts
Alicia Dattner: Small Batch, Artisanal Comedy
September 19 @ 8:00 PM - October 17 @ 8:00 PM PDT
The Marsh
Alicia Dattner brings her solo comedy performance to The Marsh for a Saturday-night run.
Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty in a Sparkling Show
September 20, 2026 - February 27, 2027
Brava Theater Center
Dance, Family + Relationships
Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson with The Hu & Orgy
September 20
Toyota Pavilion at Concord
Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson headline with The Hu and Orgy in Concord.
Jeff Dunham: Artificial Intelligence
September 20
The Meritage Resort and Spa
Jeff Dunham brings his Artificial Intelligence comedy tour to Blue Note Napa Summer Sessions.
Beth Schenck Quartet
September 20
Mr. Tipple’s
San Francisco saxophonist and composer Beth Schenck brings her quartet to Mr. Tipple’s.
Disney’s Moana Movie Sing-Along
September 20 @ 12:00 PM - 5:15 PM PDT
Lesher Center for the Arts
Theater + Film, Music
Data Centers in Oakland: Facts, Fears & Fiction
September 20 @ 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
TBD
A discussion on the data centers in Oakland, CA's District 3
SF Symphony Musicians and Garrick Ohlsson
September 20 @ 2:00 PM PDT
Davies Symphony Hall
Live Music
Pink Trash at Crescent Lawn
September 20 @ 2:00 PM PDT
Crescent Lawn, UC Berkeley
Maren Hassinger restages her 1982 performance exploring human relationships with nature, joined by U...
Pacific Chamber Orchestra: Songs from the Heart
September 20 @ 3:00 PM PDT
The Bankhead Theater
Pacific Chamber Orchestra presents a concert shaped around expressive, lyrical works and the emotion...
Sylvia Cuenca’s Bridging Generations
September 20 @ 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Drummer Sylvia Cuenca leads an intergenerational jazz ensemble connecting New York and the Bay Area.
Rumi’s Caravan Returns to Berkeley
September 20 @ 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
The Freight
Rumi’s Caravan returns to The Freight with an improvised evening of poetry and music benefiting th...
