The San Jose Museum of Art will be open this Labor Day, September 2, 2013

The San Jose Museum of Art will be open this Labor Day, September 2, 2013, due to popular demand for the exhibition "Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage."

The extra day is offered during the final week for the exhibition, in which world-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz took a departure from her signature staged celebrity portraits and created an intimate, personal, and self reflective collection of seventy photographs taken on a journey through the United States and Great Britain between 2009 and 2011.

Included are photographs of homes and personal possessions of iconic historical figures as well as landmarks of American history. Pilgrimage, which has been on view at SJMA since June 6, 2013, has been well received and  has attracted more than 18,000 visitors to the Museum since the start of the exhibition. The exhibition will be on view through September 8, 2013.

More at: http://www.examiner.com/list/the-san-jose-museum-of-art-will-be-open-this-labor-day-september-2-2013

Weekend picks for June 13 - 16

Photographs from the Iraqi invasion at the de Young, a Sunday lecture at the Museum of the African Diaspora, Leibovitz at the San Jose Museum of Art and a call for artists from the San Francisco Center for the Book:

http://www.examiner.com/article/bay-area-weekend-picks-for-june-15-16

Raunch and irreverence at the San Jose Museum of Art

Bawdy irreverence, iconoclasm, parody, and puns are hallmarks of the work spawned by the art department at the University of California, Davis, in the 1960s and 1970s. In keeping with the counterculture of the time, the tone of this humor was often aggressive and transgressive......

Walter Robinson’s larger-than-life, hot pink and melting animal cookies point to the realities of global warming, part of the current exhibit at the SJMA.
http://www.examiner.com/article/renegade-humor-at-the-san-jose-museum-of-art-thiebaud-at-the-berggruen