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Friday Nights at the de Young: 100 Years of Robot Art | SF

Every Friday Through November 23rd.
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Friday, November 20, 2015 - 5:00 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.

In conjunction with the 100 year anniversary of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the de Young and collaborators Ken Goldberg from UC Berkeley / CITRIS “People and Robots” Initiative, and Alexander Rose from The Long Now Foundation present “100 Years of Robot Art and Science in the Bay Area.”

Long Conversation | Koret Auditorium | 6:30 pm

In collaboration with Ken Goldberg from UC Berkeley / CITRIS and the “People and Robots” Initiative, and Alexander Rose from The Long Now Foundation, a modified form of a conversational format (a 2 hour relay of 10 minute public conversations) between 11 pairs of speakers explores “100 Years of Robot Art and Science in the Bay Area.”

Participants include:

  • Josette Melchor (Grey Area Foundation for the Arts)
  • Dorothy R. Santos (writer, curator)
  • Tim Roseborough (artist, musician, former Kimball Artist-in-Residence)
Live Music by Maus Haus | Wilsey Court | 6:30 pm

Maus Haus is an experimental pop collective that began in San Francisco in 2008. Their compositions zig-zag between 60s psych rock, futuristic reggaeton, and retro-electronic pop.

“Jumpy rock-tronica that’s exuberant with distortion and la-lala’s.” – Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone

Emcee Jef Valentine | Wilsey Court | 6:30 pm

Emcee Jef Valentine keeps the party going all night with killer robot moves

In conjunction with the 100 year anniversary of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the de Young and collaborators Ken Goldberg from UC Berkeley / CITRIS “People and Robots” Initiative, and Alexander Rose from The Long Now Foundation present “100 Years of Robot Art and Science in the Bay Area.”

Every week, Friday Nights at the de Young offers art-making activities to encourage everyone of all ages to tap into their creativity.

November 4–29, 2015
Wednesdays–Sundays, 1–5 pm plus Friday Nights until 8:30 pm
de Young | Kimball Education Gallery/Artist Studio
Artist Reception Friday Night, November 27, 6–8:30 pm: Join us in celebrating the artist’s residency with light refreshments

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.


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