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Friday Nights at the de Young: Art, Walk & Concert | SF

Every Friday Through November 23rd.
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Friday, August 12, 2016 - 5:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Programs are free and open to the public, but does not include admission to the museum's galleries.

de Young Museum | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA

Event Details

Friday Nights at the de Young | Fall 2018

One of San Francisco’s most celebrated after-hours museum events returns for a fall season of 2018.

These nine Friday Nights feature free admission to the main-level galleries highlighted by a reinterpretation of contemporary art in their permanent collection and new acquisitions called Specters of Disruption. In addition, Friday Nights will offer reduced-price tickets of $14 to the exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions from 6–8:30 pm.

Through social-media moments and in-person dialogue, visitors can engage and commune with the art and with one another in a warm and welcoming setting. Enjoy specialty drinks and mocktails, coffees, teas, and snacks. Bring your friends. Strike a pose at the selfie wall. Listen to music. Make art. Activities take place from 6–8:30 pm.

Soundwave (7) Biennial: Polyenvironments
5:00 pm
Artist Matthew Howell presents his next iteration of Polyenvironments, an evolution of this piece presented during their Sonic Lab series in 2015. Participants are invited to experience a free form soundwalk using their own (or provided) headphones via their smartphones to explore a virtual soundscape by walking around the gardens and interior of the de Young Museum.

James Turrell’s “Three Gems” 
Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden
5:00 pm
Visit James Turrell’s Three Gems in the Osher Sculpture Garden during its optimal viewing time—at sunset. Open 5 till 8:45 pm.

Soundwave (7) Biennial: Surrounding
Hamon Education Tower at the 9th Floor
6:00 pm

Mixed-Media Art-Making Station with Suzanne Couture
Buchanan Court
6:00 pm
Every week, Friday Nights at the de Young offers art-making activities to encourage everyone of all ages to tap into their creativity.

Soundwave (7) Biennial: “The Companion Guide to Rome” concert
Wilsey Court
6:20 pm

Soundwave (7) Biennial: Chromatic Conversations
Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden
8:00 pm


Cost: FREE*
*Programs are free and open to the public, but does not include admission to the museum's galleries.
Categories: *Top Pick*, Art & Museums
Address: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA