Museums

From food and film to art, music and nature, here’s an epic sampling of ways to have some Bay Area fun this spring and beyond. Cirque du Soleil presents ‘KOOZA’: Now through March 10, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco. This cirque show combines acrobatic performance with the art of clowning while exploring fear, identity, recognition and power. Sit back and watch as The Innocent’s journey brings him into contact with comic characters from an electrifying world full of surprises. Tickets starting at $72.…

Longtime developer John Madden Jr., whose emphasis on art and landscaping produced some of the more distinctive buildings in the Denver Tech Center, died last week. He was 94. Madden, born and raised in Omaha, Neb., started in the family insurance business and then carved out his own path in commercial real estate. Working with his family, he built a major art collection and indoor and outdoor museums to display art, sculptures and landscapes in the Denver area, where he moved his development company in the 1970s. The…

The month of February is a time to remember and reflect on the history of the Black experience in the United States. However you prefer to honor this legacy, from educational events to festive celebrations, concerts, performances and parties, there’s no shortage of ways to do Black History Month around the Bay. Black History Month at MoAD: Throughout February, Museum of the African Disapora, 685 Mission St., San Francisco. MoAD will honor Black History Month with a full month of programs and events celebrating Black…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cultural institutions are censoring research, learning and creativity because of the way they police the reuse of digital copies of out-of-copyright artworks and artifacts, a new study warns. Cultural institutions have created a "mess" by claiming and enforcing new rights over the reproduction images of works in…

By Hannah Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune Millions of people have seen Stan Lee in his quirky background appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or know him as the co-creator of some of the most iconic characters in comic book history. Now, at a new exhibit in the Comic-Con Museum, they can see a rarely portrayed side of him, the editor whose decisions and influence changed the landscape of comics. “One of the things that makes him so unique is that the comic book industry never had a greater spokesperson,” lead…

Check out all of these things to see and do in the Bay Area for the spring season and beyond. Mobile Light Art Station: March 3, April 13 and April 22, various venues in Oakland and San Francisco. This unique series features light art installations by five Bay Area artists, including “The Great Wall of Oakland” on March 3, Boeddeker Park in San Francisco’s Tenderloin April 13, and the exterior of the former Esther’s Orbit Room in Oakland on April 22, with music, dance, spoken word and even an open-air dance party added to…

See how Museums can benefit from Metaverse Metaverse and Museums seem a beautiful combination. One of Web 2.0’s most inventive applications has been the creation of virtual museums. These organisations primarily take the form of real-world museums that provide visitors virtual tours. And this all has been possible through Metaverse only. Museums can use metaverse to benefit a lot. Some of the top museums in the world that have implemented virtual tours include The Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Louvre,…

L.A. Taco has chosen the 69 best tacos in the city, and that means it’s time to get eating. I’m art and design columnist Carolina A. Miranda of the Los Angeles Times, here with all the essential arts news and lamb barbacoa:Museum fail? “The art world likes to think of itself as a bastion of progressive values,” write journalists Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin in a new report. “But data shows that its perception of progress far outpaces reality.” For four years, Burns, an independent journalist, and Halperin, the…

Los Angeles is more than 5,500 miles from Copenhagen — but for those in search of some hygge this holiday season, a warm and cozy solution is a mere three-hour drive up the coast. The city of Solvang — also known as the “The Danish Capital of America” — is in the Santa Ynez Valley, making the community of half-timbered buildings and windmills an easy day- or weekend-trip destination for Southern California travelers. What’s more, Solvang’s six-week-long Julefest kicked off last weekend, which means it’s a great time to…

We’re nearing the close of 2022, but there’s still so much left to do! Here’s a full roundup of all the Bay Area events you still need to check out before the year is up, and for a special curation of holiday-themed events and pop-ups, check out our holiday events calendar here: bayareane.ws/3Dwwyvn  ZOPPÉ — an Italian Family Circus: Various showtimes through the end of November, 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City. Enter the Big Top and be dazzled by thundering horses, trapeze and acrobat artists, highwire walkers, Nino…