The Summer of Love revisited in the arts
The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love started in winter and is picking up speed as spring leads to summer and into fall. More than 50 arts and cultural organizations will celebrate it statewide, with an extensive schedule co-organi
Jim Marshall’s 1967: An exhibition featuring 80 images by the surly sage of all rock photographers runs through June 17 at San Francisco City Hall. The show, sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission, is on the ground floor in the North Light Court. www.sfartscommission.org/gallery.
Market Street Poster Series: Three contemporary artists — Sarah Hotchkiss, Kate Haug and Deborah Aschheim — re-examine the Summer of Love through a series of posters in bus kiosks along Market Street, between Eighth Street and the Embarcadero. www.sfartscommission.org/pubartcollection
Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia: A major exhibition of the art, architecture and design of the counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s runs through May 21 at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
Lavender-Tinted Glasses: A Groovy Gay Look at the Summer of Love: An exhibition highlighting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender participation in the Summer of Love opens April 7 and runs through Sept. 27 at the GLBT History Museum in the Castro District. www.glbthistory.org/museum
Summer of Love: Art, Fashion and Rock & Roll: An exhibition of rock posters, photographs, ephemera, light show and film opens April 8 and runs through Aug. 20 at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. www.famsf.org
Love or Confusion: Jimi Hendrix in
1967: A look at the meteor that rose from the flames of his own guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival. The exhibit runs April 26 through Aug. 27 at the Museum of the African Diaspora on Mission Street in San Francisco. www.moadsf.org
Elaine Mayes: It Happened in Monterey: An exhibition of vintage photographs from Monterey Pop will be on display May 4 through Aug. 10 at the SFO Museum, San Francisco International Airport, Terminal 3. www.flysfo.com/museum On the Road to the Summer of Love: An overview of the cultural upheaval that brought on the hippie mass migration opens May 12 and runs through Sept. 10 at the California Historical Society on Market Street in San Francisco. Curated by Grateful Dead historian and author Dennis McNally, the exhibit tells the story through photographs and ephemera. www.cal hist.org.
Summer of Love Ballet: A dance tribute by choreographer Trey McIntyre makes its world premiere at Smuin Contemporary American Ballet, as part of “Dance Series 02,” May 5 through June 3 at various Bay Area locations. www.smuinballet.org
A Night With Janis Joplin: The American Conservatory Theater will open a stand-alone production of the Broadway musical, June 7 through July 2 at the Geary Theater in San Francisco. www.act-sf.org
Magic Mountain Music Festival & Hair: On June 10, producers of the annual Mountain Play on Mount Tam will present a tribute to the Broadway musical “Hair,” and the Magic Mountain Music Festival, which introduced the Doors, among 30 acts at an outdoor show in Marin County on June 10, 1967. www.mountainplay.org
50th Anniversary of Love and Haight: The San Francisco Public Library will showcase images and literature focused on the Summer of Love from June 15 through September in the Jewett Gallery at the Main Library. www.sfpl.org
Flower Power: The symbolism of the flower will be traced from the courts of China through the Buddhists of San Francisco in the ’60s at the Asian Art Museum, from June 24 through Oct. 1. Megan Wilson’s “Flower Interruption: San Francisco Summer of Love 2017” will involve flowers painted on the exterior and interior of the museum, in the Civic Center. www.asianart.org