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Grace Stetson on January 5, 2022
Why not start off 2022 with a free look at some of the best art in town? This Friday, the San Jose Museum of Art gets the year started right with three hours of complimentary art, ranging from vibrant abstract paintings (Break + Bleed) to inquisitive looks at the human body (Our…
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Elliott Sky Case on December 1, 2021
The portrait—especially the nude—holds a crucial space in the artistic canon, but the form is heavy with baggage regarding whose bodies are displayed, how and by whom. SJMA’s Our whole, unruly selves, which runs through June, explores and questions those complications. A cross-disciplinary group show with work ranging from the 1960s to…
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Elliott Sky Case on November 3, 2021
This Friday, a new sound will echo through downtown San Jose, connecting the city to the world at large in new ways, when Beta Space: Trevor Paglen opens at SJMA. The installation can be heard emitting from the museum’s clock tower for the next year. Paglen, a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has spent…
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Mike Huguenor on June 9, 2021
If you hear a collective sigh of relief at noon, that’s just the world tuning into San Jose Art Museum’s free “Art Fix Wednesday.” Weekly throughout the pandemic, SJMA docents have taken to the internet to discuss the museum’s many stunning works, like Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s broken-glass installation Drowning Sorrows, and…
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Wallace Baine on December 30, 2019
San Jose’s glorious Museum of Art stays open late one night a month for an evening of live music, night bites and encounters with art. This month’s First Friday celebration, sponsored by Facebook, features music by Guera/April Garcia and DJ Chale Brown. The museum cafe is open, as are all the current…
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Nick Veronin on January 16, 2019
Local event promotion collective The Come Up is teaming with the San Jose Museum of Art and SJMADE to curate this week’s Sound Scaping. The event features food, drinks and live performances by lo-fi hip-hop producer Knowmadic, indie lounge lizard Mild Monk, R&B chanteuse Kamiko and jazz pianist/vocalist Joy Hackett. While at…
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Wallace Baine on September 20, 2018
Good news, fashionistas: You can now justify the expense for that hot dress or cool jacket you bought this summer. The San Jose Museum of Art is throwing a scintillating party. The Mirror Ball is the hip after-party for the Wonder Ball gala and fundraiser earlier in the evening. The after-party will…
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Winona Rajamohan on July 19, 2018
Mosaic Silicon Valley returns with an evening of music, dance and poetry—all aimed at building communities through art and the spirit of activism. ArtRage: Truth Be Told is an evening of live performances held in the same gallery currently hosting “Rise Up!” The exhibition features works focused on current social justice movements…
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World famous photographer Annie Leibovitz switched roles and went in front of the lens Wednesday night at the opening reception for her traveling exhibition Pilgrimage and San Jose Museum of Art.
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