Los Angeles California Art Artists Galleries - Museums Northern California

Asian Art Museum - The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. Its holdings include nearly 15,000 treasures spanning 6,000 years of history, representing cultures throughout Asia. The museum's mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.

California Palace Of The Legion Of Honor - Set on a headland where the Pacific Ocean spills into San Francisco Bay, the Legion of Honor is one of the most beautiful museums in the country. Visitors to the Legion enjoy the grandeur of its neoclassical architecture, unforgettable views of the city and the Golden Gate Bridge, and 4,000 years of ancient and European art.

Cartoon Art Museum - In 1984, a group of cartoon art enthusiasts began organizing exhibitions by using art work from their own collections. For several years, the Cartoon Art Museum was a "museum without walls", setting up shows in local museums and corporate spaces. In 1987, with an endowment from Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz, the museum established residence in the heart of San Francisco's new vibrant art center, Yerba Buena Gardens.

Contemporary Jewish Museum - Since its founding in 1984, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, housed here at the Jewish Community Federation, has presented more then 80 exhibitions and hundreds of programs exploring the Jewish spirit and imagination. As early as 1990, The Contemporary Jewish Museum recognized the urgency for a more expansive facility to meet the needs and interests of the communities we serve. And we could not have hoped for a better building opportunity, both physically and conceptually, than when the city of San Francisco agreed to allow The Contemporary Jewish Museum to develop the historic Jessie Street Substation, a 1907 landmark designed by Willis Polk.

Mexican Museum - The soul and spirit of the arts and cultures of Mexico and the Americas are fundamentally linked. Through its programs, The Mexican Museum voices the complexity and richness of Latino art throughout the Americas, encouraging dialogue among the broadest public.

Museum of Craft and Folk Art - The Museum of Craft & Folk Art (formerly the San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum) moved to the Fort Mason Center in early 1987, just four years after its opening exhibition at the original site on Balboa Street. Soon the Museum was put on the map with an exhibition of quilts by East Bay residents entitled Improvisations in African American Quiltmaking, a dazzling display focusing on the connection between the visual arts and the creative improvisation that characterized early jazz and found its source in Africa. The quilt exhibition traveled to thirty museums in twenty states and showed countless audiences how folk art carries deep cultural roots across the oceans and the centuries.

Pacific Heritage Museum - The Pacific Heritage Museum of San Francisco was established in 1984 by the Bank of Canton of California as a public service for the citizens and visitors of San Francisco. Featuring nearly 10,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Museum displays, on a rotating basis, exhibits highlighting the artistic, cultural, and economic history of the Pacific Rim.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Welcome to SFMOMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. We have developed a Web site that we hope you will find easy to use, informative, and beautiful.

As one of the world's most innovative museums of modern and contemporary art, SFMOMA has had an active Web presence for over nine years (a very long time, when measured in Internet time). During this period we have redesigned our site twice, always with the idea that a museum such as ours should continually strive to improve the ways in which it serves a diverse public. And, as our collective understanding of emerging digital technologies has increased, we felt that perhaps it was time to use the Web to explore our understanding of the museum itself.

Yerba Buena Center For The Arts - Welcome and thank you for visiting Yerba Buena Center for the Arts online. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts opened ten years ago with much fanfare and expectation. Our promise then: that the Center would include, respect and celebrate the people and ideas that energize our myriad communities; that we would present exciting local artists in context with their national and international peers; and that we would provide the Bay Area with an eclectic and wide-ranging slate of exciting exhibitions, performances, films and educational programs.

Art Museum Of Los Gatos - In the spring of 1949 Florence Blakeslee, first Palette Editor, organized the Allied Arts Exhibit and out of this exhibit came many of the first 25 charter members of the Los Gatos Art Association. Fifteen women and ten men put in place many of the nuts and bolts that still exist in our club today. They include our By-Laws, The Palette, our slate of officers, incorporation and our History Book. In addition they instituted a spring and fall art show. They reached out to the young people with art workshops and opportunities to show their work.

By 1954 we had 200 members in the Los Gatos Art Association and were a moving force in Los Gatos, a community of 25,000. Because of our standing in the community we have 20 years of newspaper articles that chronicle our beginnings. We will begin displaying our early history, in our new display case, at our monthly meetings beginning in November 2003.