Make Carnegie Museums in Oakland an end-of-the-week destination for you and your family this summer during Friday Nights Live! Beginning June 6, the Museums of Art and Natural History will remain open until 9:00 p.m. every Friday night through the summer (except July 4). Special tours, films, activities and programs are planned for people of all ages, and all of the galleries will be open. Friday Nights Live continue through August 29. For more information on activities call 622-3131.
Designing the Modern World 1885–1945: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion
HEINZ GALLERIES THROUGH MAY 18
This traveling exhibition explores design in the industrial age, and its role in communicating social, aesthetic and technological issues in Europe and America. The 260 objects—including sculpture, prints, furniture, ceramics and paintings— convey messages of modernity, reform and political propoganda from the English Arts and Crafts Movement to Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Art and Economics: Industrial Design from Wedgwood to Tupperware
TREASURE ROOM THROUGH JUNE 22
This exhibition examines the relationship between art and economics through factory-made, mass- or limited-production objects from the mid-18th century to the present. This exhibition complements Designing the Modern World 1885–1945: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion.
Abstraction in Europe and America, 1910–1945
SCAIFE GALLERIES THROUGH JUNE 15
Fifty abstract prints and drawings by artists such as Americans Arshile Gorky, Charles Biederman and Burgoyne Diller, and Europeans Georges Braque and the Russian constructivists.
Recent Sculpture by Thaddeus Mosley
FORUM GALLERY THROUGH AUGUST 3
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Rembrandt Etchings: Selections from the Carnegie Museum of Art
HEINZ GALLERIES JUNE 7–AUGUST 3
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Jacques Bellange: 17th-Century Printmaker of Lorraine
HEINZ GALLERIES JUNE 7–AUGUST 3
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Art Works: The PaineWebber Collection of Contemporary Masters
HEINZ GALLERIES JUNE 21–AUGUST 31
Contemporary paintings by such artists as Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella and Brice Marden comprise this selection from one of the country’s finest corporate collections. An illustrated catalogue is available.
American Watercolors from the Museum’s Collection
SCAIFE GALLERIES JUNE 21–SEPTEMBER 21
Featured are works by many of the painters who devoted their creativity to this favorite American medium, including Winslow Homer, Charles Burchfield, Arthur Dove and Charles Demuth, among others.
The Carnegie in Plan, Section and Elevation
THE HEINZ ARCHITECTURAL CENTER THROUGH JULY 27
A fascinating architectural story unfolds in these 30 original drawings of the Carnegie’s Oakland facility, dating from 1895, 1905 and 1974.
How to Read an Architectural Drawing
THE HEINZ ARCHITECTURAL CENTER THROUGH NOVEMBER 16
Drawings and models exhibited side by side take the mystery out of reading architectural plans.