Event plaza of the museum with orange and white pop up canopies for the fall season celebration.

Events

Open for a Last Look

Aerial view of the museum with a large red bow on top and smiling face.

Last Look
10 AM–5 PM
Saturday, Dec. 28 & Sunday, Dec. 29
Free admission & parking

It’s our gift to you — a special opportunity to share the joy and wonder of art with visiting relatives and friends during our “Last Look” weekend of the year. Experience thought-provoking exhibitions, make your own abstract art, and enjoy treats.

Ponder stunning, large-scale sculptures that explore the way that people and objects move across time and space in Phillip Byrne, Beatriz Cortez, Kang Seung Lee, Candice Lin: Entangled Writing. (Through Dec. 29)

Explore the ways Bay Area ceramic artists channel ancient archetypes and spiritual mythologies as a way to reckon with inherited histories in Ritual Clay: Cathy Lu, Paz G, Maryam Yousif. (Through Dec. 29)

Discover (or revisit) abstract paintings by Francis Bacon, Salvador Dalí, Vassily Kandinsky, Wifredo Lam and Joan Miró in Light into Density: Abstract Encounters 1920s–1960s. (Through May 5, 2025)

Art Spark: Abstract Encounters
1–4 PM
Feed your imagination and express yourself through abstract techniques inspired by our fall exhibitions. All ages and ability levels are welcome — art is for everyone!

 

Winter Season Celebration

Front of the museum in the evening.

Sunday, February 2, 2025
2–5:30 PM
3:30–4:30 PM: Artist talk featuring Ruby Neri
Free for All

Celebrate the museum’s dynamic winter season with 

Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, the first US presentation of the renowned contemporary art collection

Ruby Neri: Taking the Deep Dive, Neri’s first solo museum exhibition. 

The exhibitions join continuing exhibition Light into Density: Abstract Encounters 1920s–1960s. 

Artist talk 
Exhibiting artist Ruby Neri will be in conversation with curator Ginny Duncan

Gallery Encounters
Experience art, space and your museum friends in unexpected ways through a new interactive work created especially for the museum galleries by Dorte Bjerre Jensen, Danish artist and current UC Davis Ph.D. student. Jensen’s practice explores how we experience art through relational presence, offering a fresh opportunity to see and sense the exhibitions from new perspectives.