New this week
Adobe Books Backroom Gallery “Thank You For Nothing.” Group exhibition. Reception/artist talk 5-7:30 p.m. Thurs., June 28. Through July 1. 3130 24th St., S.F. 415-8643936. www.adobe backroomgallery.com
Arc Studios Gallery “Diptychs.” Arc Studio artists group exhibition. Opens Sat., June 23. Reception 7-9 p.m. Sat., June 23.Through Aug. 8. 1246 Folsom St., S.F. 415-2987969. www.arc-sf.com
The Growlery “Fluid Marks.” Anna Wane, photographs. Opens Sun., June 17. Through June 28. “Third Eye Moonwalk.” John Bernson, sitespecific multi-sensory installation. Opens Sun., June 17. Through July 9. 235 Broderick St., S.F. www.thegrowlery.org
Historic Escalle Winery “MarinScapes 2018.” Davis Perkins, paintings and group exhibition/Buckelew Programs benefit art sale. Opens Thurs., June 21. Opening gala 5:309:30 p.m. $175-$300. Reception 5:30-8 p.m. Fri., June 22. $20. Through June 24. $20. 771 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 94939
Incline Gallery “Tales of the Súper Cartista.” Monica Magtoto, drawings, paintings. Opens Fri., June 22. Reception 6-9 p.m. Fri., June22. Through June 30. 766 Valencia St. 415-879-6118. www.inclinegallerysf.com
Rena Bransten Gallery “The Portrait Show.” Mixed media group exhibition. Opens Sat., June 23. Reception 5-7 p.m. July 7. Through Aug. 18. 1275 Minnesota St. 415-982-3292. www.renabranstengallery.com
Telegraph Hill Gallery “Lost Horizons.” Lori Robinson, paintings. Opens Fri., June 22. Reception 5-7 p.m. Fri., June 22. Through July 20. 491 Greenwich St., S.F. 415-7679794. www.telegraphhillgallery.com
MUSEUMS
Anderson Collection at Stanford “Salon Style: Collected Marks on Paper.” Through Aug. 20. “Another Look at the Permanent Collection.” Ongoing. 314 Lomita Dr., Stanford. www.anderson.stanford.edu.
Asian Art Museum “Thursday nights: Tasting Menu: Food as Healing With Real Food Real Stories.” 6-9 p.m. Thurs., June 21. $8 and admission. “A Guided Tour of Hell: Artist Talk With Pema Namdol Thaye.” 1 p.m. Sat., June 23. Included with museum admission. “Traces of the Past and Future: Fu Shen’s Paintings And Calligraphy.” Through Sept. 4. “Divine Bodies.” Videos and photographic works by contemporary artists along with traditional devotional art. Through July 29. “A Guided Tour of Hell.” Pema Namdol Thaye, paintings. Through Sept. 16. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun. 200 Larkin St. 415-581-3500. www.asianart.org
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Art: “Art Wall: Karabo Poppy Moletsane.” Through July 15. “Color, Form, Unicorn: Recent Acquisitions.” Through Aug. 19. “Matrix 270: Alicia McCarthy and Ruby Neri.” Paintings, sculpture. Through Aug. 26. “Way Bay 2.” Through Sept. 2. “Master Traces, Transcultural Visions.” Through Sept. 16. Film: “The Luminous Legacy of Greta Garbo.” Through July 13. “Bergman 100: A Summer Interlude.” Through July 15. “Michelangelo Antonioni Retrospective.” Through Aug. 31. “Sunday Summer Cinema: Dancing in the Streets.” Through Oct. 14. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sun. 2155 Center St., Berkeley. 510-642-0808. www.bampfa.org
California Academy of Sciences “Pride Nightlife.” With Heklina and Friends, live drag performance; Hella Gay Dance Party and Swagger Like Us, music; ConfiDance, dance class; make rainbow molecular gastronomy balls; extended aquarium/exhibition hours; planetarium screening; cocktails. 6-10 p.m. Thurs., June 21. $12-$15. “Giants of Land and Sea.” “Expedition Reef,” “Dark Universe,” “Tour of the Universe,” and “Earthquake: Evidence of a Restless Planet.” Planetarium shows daily. “Gems and Minerals Unearthed.” Ongoing. See website for other exhibits. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., S.F. (415) 379-8000. www.calacademy.org
Cantor Arts Center “Betray the Secret: Humanity in the Age of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Through Aug. 5. “Salon Style: Collected Marks on Paper.” Through Aug. 20. “Through Diebenkorn’s “Window”: Transitions in Time.” Through Aug. 12. “Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang.” Through Sept. 3. “The Dancing Sowei: Performing Beauty in Sierra Leone.” Through Dec. 21. “Do Ho Suh: The Spaces in Between.” Through Feb. 25, 2019. See website for information on other shows. Closed Tuesdays. Lomita Dr., Stanford University. 650-723-4177. www.museum.stanford.edu
Cartoon Art Museum “March: A Graphic History of the Civil Rights Movement.” Andrew Aydin, John Lewis, and Nate Powell, graphic novel works, drawings. Ends Tues., June 19. “The Prince and the Dressmaker.” Jen Wang, graphic works, illustration. Through June 24. “The Infinite Universe of Jim Starlin.” Through Sept. 4. “The Infinity War Pantheon of Heroes: The Art of Allan Lavigne and the Bronze Armory.” Through Sept. 4.781 Beach St. 415-227-8666. www.cartoonart.org
Contemporary Jewish Museum “The Body as Tool: Creating New Media.” With artists Laetitia Sonami, M Eifler, and Camille Utterback. 6:30 p.m. Thurs., June 21. $5-$10. “In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art — Allison Smith and Christina Zetterlund.” Through July 3. “Kutiman: Offgrid Offline.” Through July 3. “The Art of Rube Goldberg.” Drawings. Through July 8. “Contraption: Rediscovering California Jewish Artists.” Through July 29. “What We Hold: Youth Voices on Roots and What Matters Most.” Through March 25, 2019. “Lamp of the Covenant.” Dave Lane, sculpture installation. Ongoing. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.Tues.; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thurs. 736 Mission St. 415-6557800. www.thecjm.org
De Young Museum “The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music.” The Propeller Group, film installation. Ends Wed., June 20. “Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art.” American Precisionism group exhibition. Through Aug. 12. “Ana Prvac ki: In Residence.” Sculpture. Through Aug. 26. “The Companions: Sounds for a Lost Screenplay.” Cinematic audio environment composed by Skywalker Ranch sound designers Gary Rydstrom and Josh Gold, in collaboration with visual artist Anthony Discenza. Opens Sun., June 17. Through Sept. 4. “Only Human.” Judy Dater, photographs. Through Sept. 16. “Weapons of Mass Seduction: The Art of Propaganda.” Through Oct. 7. “First Impressions: Prints from the Anderson Collection.” Through Dec. 8. “Fans of the 18th Century.” Through April 28, 2019. 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Tues.-Sun. 50 Tea Garden Dr., Golden Gate Park. 415-7503600. www.deyoungmuseum.org
Exploratorium “After Dark: Zinc and Sewn Scenarios.” With explainer demonstrations; extended exhibition and tactile dome hours; cocktails. 6-10 p.m. Thurs., June 21. $14.95-$19.95. “Iron Science Teacher.” Noon Fri., June 22. Included with museum admission. “Handmade Science—Explorables: Inflatable Origami.” 1 p.m. Sat., June 23. “Full-Spectrum Science with Ron Hipschman: Fireworks.” 1 and 3 p.m. Sun., June 24. Included with museum admission. “Infinity Room.” Through July 15. “Inflatable: Expanding Works of Art.” Through Sept. 3. See website for other exhibits. Pier 15, S.F. (415) 528-4444. www.exploratorium.edu
Legion of Honor “Julian Schnabel: Symbols of Actual Life.” Through Aug. 5. “Paris 1913: La Prose du Transsibérien and the Flowering of the Avant Garde.” Through July 8. “The Future of the Past: Mummies and Medicine.” Through Aug. 26. 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Tues.-Sun. Lincoln Park, 34th Avenue at Clement St. 415-750-3600. www.legionofhonor.org.
Museum of the African Diaspora “Emerging Artists Informational Open House.” 6 p.m. Tues., June 19. Free. “Flows with Yoram Savion.” Film screening, discussion. 7 p.m. Wed., June 20. $12-$15. “After the Thrill is Gone: Fashion, Politics and Culture in Contemporary South African Art.” Through Aug. 26. “Digitalia: Art and the Economy of Ideas.” Through Aug. 26. “Out of This World.” Through Aug. 26. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.Sun. 685 Mission St. 415-3587200. www.moadsf.org.
Oakland Museum of California “Friday Nights: Summer.” With DJ Sake One; Joey Mintz, and Moon Candy, live music; family friendly hip-hop calilgraphy art activity; extended museum hours; food trucks; beer garden. 5-9 p.m. Fri., June 22. Free. “Respect: HipHop Style and Wisdom.” Through Aug. 12. “J.B. Blunk: Nature, Art & Everyday Life.” Through Sept. 9. “Take Root: Oakland Grows Food.” Through Jan. 13, 2019. 1000 Oak St., Oakland. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sun. 510-3188400. www.museumca.org
S.F. Library “Grabbing My Camera, Recording Memories.” Kennymax Hsu, photographs. Ends Thurs., June 21. “Christopher Felver: The Imagination of American Poets.” Photographs. Through June 24. See website for other events. “The Unique Costumes of the 56 Ethnic Groups of China.” Through July 3. “Degenderettes Antifa Art.” Through July 19. “A Voteless People is a Hopeless People: 1956 Citizenship Education Program.” Through Aug. 9. “The Creative Spirit: Art Made by Students of the California School for the Blind.” Through Aug. 16. “Potrero: 1980s.” Jo Babcock, photographs. Through Aug. 23. “Kalligraphia XV.” Through Aug. 27. 100 Larkin St. (415) 557-4400. www.sfpl.org
S.F. Museum of Modern Art “New Work: Lanza Atelier.” Through July 29. “Scaling Up: Alexander Calder.” Small scale sculptural works. Through Aug. 19. “Louise Bourgeois: Spiders.” Through Sept. 4. “Steven Frykholm: Summer Picnic Posters.” Opens Sat., June 23. Through Sept. 9. “Sublime Seas.” John Akomfrah and J.M.W. Turner, three channel video installation, paintings. Through Sept. 16. “Nothing Stable under Heaven.” Group exhibition. Through Sept. 16. “Tilted Plane.” Jim Campbell, light installation. Through Sept. 16. “Selves and Others: Gifts to the Collection from Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein.” Through Sept. 23. “Wild Pigeon.” Carolyn Drake, photographic collage. Through Sept. 23. “René Magritte: The Fifth Season.” Through Oct. 28. “Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900.” Ongoing. “German Art After 1960: Fisher Collection.” Ongoing. “Pop, Minimal, and Figurative Art: Fisher Collection.” Ongoing. “Approaching American Abstraction: The Fisher Collection.” Ongoing. “Howl.” Julie Mehretu, large scale paintings. Ongoing. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Tues., 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs. 151 Third St. 415-3574000. www.sfmoma.org.
Walt Disney Family Museum “June Films: The Little Mermaid, Dear Basketball, The Reluctant Dragon, Lux.” 1, 2:30, 3 and 4:15 p.m. Sun.Mon. and Wed.-Fri. Through June. “Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane.” Through Sept. 3. “Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men: Masters of Animation.” Through Jan. 7, 2019. Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Mon. Closed Tues. 104 Montgomery St., Presidio. 415-345-6800. www.waltdisney.org.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts “2018 Architecture and Design Films Showcase.” Through July 1. “The Open Workshop: New Investigations in Collective Form.” Open Research design research studio group exhibition. Through July 29. “Futurefarmers: Out of Place, in Place.” Through Aug. 12. Noon-8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat., first Tues.; noon-6 p.m. Sun. 701 Mission St. 415-978-2787. www.ybca.org.