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GaHee Park’s First US Solo Museum Show Opens at YBCA on August 7

July 29, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts building seen from Yerba Buena Gardens in SoMa - San Francisco

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts opens GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain on August 7, 2026, the painter’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States, running through January 3, 2027.

Categories News Tags Art Exhibitions, Museums, SoMa

Bay Day Returns to the Exploratorium on August 1 With the NOAA Buoy Haul-Out

July 29, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
The entrance to the Exploratorium science museum at Pier 15 on the Embarcadero - San Francisco

The Exploratorium holds Bay Day on Saturday, August 1, 2026, from 11am to 4pm at Pier 15, pulling its NOAA carbon dioxide buoy out of the water for its annual servicing.

Categories News Tags Embarcadero, Museums

De Young Opens ‘A Gallery of Their Own’ on August 15 With Bourgeois, Krasner and Kusama

July 28, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
The de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park - San Francisco

The de Young opens A Gallery of Their Own on August 15, 2026, a show of women artists from the promised Carr and Goldblum gift, running through February 28, 2027.

Categories News Tags Art Exhibitions, Museums

SFMOMA Opens ‘O. Smith: Artivist,’ Drawings Made Inside San Quentin

July 28, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art building in SoMa - San Francisco

SFMOMA‘s O. Smith: Artivist presents drawings by Orlando Smith, who is incarcerated at San Quentin, on Floor 2 from July 25, 2026 through June 20, 2027 with general admission.

Categories News Tags Art Exhibitions, Museums, SoMa

SFMOMA Fills Its Free Ground-Floor Gallery With 75,000 Kites Starting August 22

July 27, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
SFMOMA's free ground-floor Roberts Family Gallery, the room that will hold Jacob Hashimoto's Giant Arc, shown during the 2021 Diego Rivera mural installation - San Francisco

SFMOMA opens Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc on August 22, 2026, an installation of more than 75,000 hand-built kites in the free, unticketed Roberts Family Gallery on Floor 1.

Categories News Tags Art Exhibitions, Museums

De Young Opens ‘Treasures of the Pharaohs’ With 130 Egyptian Antiquities on August 1

July 25, 2026July 23, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
The de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park - San Francisco

Treasures of the Pharaohs opens at the de Young on August 1, 2026, bringing 130 ancient Egyptian antiquities from Cairo and Luxor to Golden Gate Park through January 31, 2027.

Categories News Tags Art Exhibitions, Museums

Legion of Honor Opens a Yearlong Joan Miró Artist Book Show on July 25

July 21, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, host of The Etruscans exhibition - San Francisco

Miró: Proof Against All opens at the Legion of Honor on July 25, 2026 and runs through July 25, 2027, built around the 1958 artist book À toute épreuve. Included with general admission.

Categories News Tags Art Exhibitions, Museums

Asian Art Museum Opens Noh Theater Print Show, On View Through February 2027

July 19, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
The exterior of the Asian Art Museum in the Civic Center, where the Chiharu Shiota exhibition is on view - San Francisco

The Asian Art Museum‘s new installation of Tsukioka Kogyo woodblock prints of Noh theater runs through February 21, 2027, and is included with general admission.

Categories News Tags Art Exhibitions, Asian Art Museum, Museums

Chiharu Shiota’s ‘Two Home Countries’ Closes July 27 at the Asian Art Museum

July 25, 2026July 6, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
The exterior of the Asian Art Museum in the Civic Center, where the Chiharu Shiota exhibition is on view - San Francisco

The Asian Art Museum‘s exhibition Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries, the artist’s first Bay Area solo museum show, closes July 27, 2026.

Categories News Tags Art Exhibitions, Asian Art Museum, Museums

Legion of Honor’s Etruscans Exhibition Runs Through September 20

July 25, 2026July 5, 2026 by Brian (Local SF Guide)
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, host of The Etruscans exhibition - San Francisco

The Legion of Honor‘s exhibition The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy, with more than 150 ancient objects, runs through September 20, 2026.

Categories News Tags Legion of Honor, Museums, San Francisco art exhibitions
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