Art Museum
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607
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Phone: (510) 318-8400
Fax: (510) 318-8410
Website: www.museumca.org
Contact:
Lori Fogarty Executive Director
Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday, 11 am-5 pm; Fridays until 9 pm.
Exhibitions
Beth Yarnelle Edwards: Suburban Dreams
Beth Yarnelle Edwards
This exhibition explores the relationships between people, their living spaces, and their possessions through 20 large-scale color photographs of carefully-staged domestic scenes.
we/customize
Martin Sprouse, Dan Rosenfeld, Russell Baldon, Slimm Buick, Jaz Davis, Nan Eastep, Justin Limoges, Tim Phillips, Lexa Walsh
Inspired by maker culture, this experimental, participatory, process-oriented outreach project and exhibition explores the many ways people customize objects in their daily lives and the communities that participate in the culture of modification.
Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu
Hung Liu
The first comprehensive survey of the artwork of Hung Liu—one of the most prominent Chinese painters working in the United States today.
Inspiration Points: Masterpieces of California Landscape
Ansel Adams, Thomas Hill, David Hockney, William Keith, Arthur Mathews, Richard Misrach, Thomas Moran, and more.
OMCA opens the vaults to showcase the very best in California landscape art from the museum’s holdings, examining the changing attitudes toward the environment over time and providing a surprising investigation of California’s natural world.
Peter Stackpole: Bridging the Bay
Peter Stackpole
This exhibition features approximately 20 stunning black-and-white photographs chronicling the original San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge construction in the 1930s by American photographer Peter Stackpole.
Description:
The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) brings together collections of art, history and natural science under one roof to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people. OMCA's groundbreaking exhibits tell the many stories that comprise California with many voices, often drawing on first-person accounts by people who have shaped California's cultural heritage. Visitors are invited to actively participate in the Museum as they learn about the natural, artistic and social forces that affect the state and investigate their own role in both its history and its future. With more than 1.8 million objects, OMCA is a leading cultural institution of the Bay Area and a resource for the research and understanding of California's dynamic cultural and environmental heritage.
Editorial
at Oakland Museum of Callifornia, Oakland, California
Review by Dewitt Cheng
The retrospective of Michael C. McMillen disperses his quirky sculptures and installations throughout the muse
Past Editorial
Michael McMillenMark Dion's 'Marvelous Museum'
