Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie’s 1930; Collection of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, gift of The Burnett Foundation; © 2009 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Georgia O’Keeffe, The Black Iris, 1926; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum promised gift, The Burnett Foundation; © 2009 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Ansel Adams, Winter Sunrise, the Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California, 1944; Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; © 2009 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Coffinette for the Viscera of Tutankhamun Dynasty 18, 39.5 x 10 cm. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Photo: Andreas F. Voegelin, Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig. Canopic Stopper of Tutankhamun Dynasty 18, 24 x 18.5 cm. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Photo: Andreas F. Voegelin, Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig.
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de Young Museum: Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
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June 27, 2009 thru March 28, 2010
More than 3,000 years after Tutankhamun’s reign, and 30 years after the original exhibition opened in San Francisco, this glorious event returns – with over 130 outstanding works from the famed Egyptian ruler’s tomb and his royal court.
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Golden Gate Park at
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
Open Daily 9am-9pm
(last ticket at 7:30pm)
Closes early on July 4th
(last ticket 2pm)
Closed for maintenance
July 13th, Aug. 3, Aug. 31
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www.deyoungmuseum.org
415.750.3600
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Asian Art Museum: Lords of the Samurai
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June 12th – Sept 20th
Featuring 160 works from Japan, this exhibition of arms and armor, attire, paintings, tea ware, musical instruments and more will bring to life the spiritual and ethical code that governed every aspect of the samurai’s storied existence.
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200 Larkin Street
Open Tuesday–Sunday
10am–5pm
Extended hours on Thursdays
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www.asianart.org
415.581.3500
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities
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May 30th – Sept. 7th
For the first time, over one hundred photographs and paintings by these two great artists will be combined into one extraordinary show – bringing to light the commonalities and differences shared by their distinctive visions of nature.
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151 Third Street
Open daily at 10am
Extended hours on Thursdays Closed Wednesdays
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www.sfmoma.org
415.357.4000
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Push Play
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March 28 – October 18
This celebration of cross-genre arts will feature Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth (March 28 – July 5), a collection of wearable sculptures, and Wallworks (July 18 – October 18), an interactive exhibition by six renowned artists painting on the walls of YBCA’s Fumihiko Maki Galleries Building.
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701 Mission St at 3rd
Open Tuesday–Sunday
12-5pm Thursdays until 8pm
Closed Mondays
and major holidays
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www.ybca.org
415.978.ARTS (2787)
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