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Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum marks 125th birthday

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Published May 9, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Retired attorney Karl Munz, 73, pauses to admire a painting by William F. Jackson on his way to get cake Sunday at the Crocker Art Museum's 125th birthday party. "I remember coming here as a kid," Munz said. "It's been a real pleasure to see the changes." ... Sacramentans turned out by the hundreds Saturday to celebrate the Crocker Art Museum's 125th birthday ... Admission was $1.25, and almost everyone sang the birthday song at 1:25 p.m ... Just to the west of the existing museum sits the

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Review: Berkeley Art Museum offers insightful retrospective of William T. Wiley

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Published April 4, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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"Sketch for the Tower of Babloid and the Monitor" is a charcoal, graphite and acrylic work by William T. Wiley ... Quixotic, perplexing, brilliant and maddening are just a few of the words that can be used to describe the idiosynscratic works of William T. Wiley. One of the most prominent artists to come out of Northern California, Wiley at 73 has earned an international reputation for his uncompromisingly provocative work ... "What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect" offers a survey

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May a milestone month for three Northern California museums

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Published April 30, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Crocker Art Museum ... Three of Northern California's most important museums will celebrate milestones over the next couple of weeks – and you're invited to their parties ... Oakland Museum of California reopens this weekend with free entertainment for 31 continuous hours (a nod to California being the 31st state admitted to the Union.) It's just undergone a two-year, $62.2 million renovation to better showcase its art and history collections. (The second phase, reinstalling the natural

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Church will host exhibit with pieces of Dead Sea Scrolls

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Published March 27, 2010 at 11:42 a.m.
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Starting April 8, Bayside Church will show pieces of the ancient Hebrew Bible, found in the 1940s and 1950s ... Next month, thousands of visitors are expected to walk into a darkened room at Bayside Church in Granite Bay for a glimpse of five pieces of ancient text, each part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the most significant archaeological finds in the past century ... At worship services this weekend, church officials will announce that they will host a unique five-week exhibit featuring the

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Oakland Museum of California plans grand reopening May 1

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Published April 25, 2010 at 1:35 p.m.
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The mixed-media sculpture "Chinese Tower" by Lois Anderson stands out in the Gallery of California Art at the Oakland Museum of California ... OAKLAND – Picture the late 1960s. In nearby Berkeley, anti-war protesters raged against the establishment. Across the bay in San Francisco, hippies frolicked in Golden Gate Park. And just across the street at the Alameda County Courthouse, Black Panther Party member Huey Newton stood trial for murder ... The Oakland Museum of California debuted in an

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Recycling is nice, but art is the real goal

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Published Feb. 22, 2010 at 2:03 p.m.
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"Borg Dog," by Lynn Scholl, is made largely of typewriter parts ... Has contemporary art gone "green"? ... A visitor to Sacramento's Second Saturday art walk might notice the galleries exhibiting art made from previously used materials – recycled art, if you will ... But what might at first glance seem to be an environmental statement, many artists and gallery curators say, is not just about recycling but is about the artistic process and its result ... It's not about the green ... "It's such

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Art to oddities, it's all free on Sacramento's Museum Day

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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 10:44 a.m.
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An iron lung is one of the items at the Sierra-Sacramento Valley Museum of Medical History ... Museum Day is Sacramento's cultural free-for-all, a chance to explore repositories of the historic, artistic, scientific, educational and even zoological – gratis ... The 12th edition of Museum Day arrives Saturday, when 26 participating sites will open at 10 a.m. and close at 5 p.m ... No entries will be allowed past 4 p.m ... Some places aren't museums (Old Sacramento State Historic Park, for

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Sacramento Museum Day: Where to go, what to see

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Published Feb. 3, 2010 at 5:27 p.m.

2010 SACRAMENTO MUSEUM DAY ... WHEN: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday (all close at 5 p.m.) ... WHERE: Greater Sacramento area ... COST: Free ... SHUTTLES: Catch a free ride to several Sacramento museums at 10th and O streets (outside the California Museum.) No service to Crocker Art Museum because of construction there ... INFORMATION: (916) 808-7777, www.sacmuseums.org (click on "Museum Day") ... DOWNTOWN AND MIDTOWN ... • California Museum for History, Women & the Arts, 1020 O St ... •

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Tours will dig deep into Sacramento's history

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Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 11:17 a.m.
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Heather Downey, a graduate student in history at California State University, Sacramento, walks through the basement of the B.F. Hastings Building in Old Sacramento, examining ramparts holding back fill dirt used to raise the street level ... It's a little-known Sacramento historical venue ... But starting in mid-May, the Historic Old Sacramento Foundation plans to reacquaint the public with underground passages there that once served the city's Gold Rush-era population ... Over the next month,

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Five picks for upcoming art shows

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Published Jan. 1, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.
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75 Years of Looking Forward ... Jan. 16-18 ... San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ... 151 Third St., San Francisco ... To celebrate its 75th Year, SFMOMA presents a suite of five special exhibits that highlight the strength of the museum's collection ... • Cost: Free Weekend Celebration, Jan. 16-18 ... • Information: ... (415) 357-2862 ... Figure Show: Paintings and Drawings of the Human Form ... Feb. 2-27 ... b. sakata garo, ... 923 20th St., Sacramento ... Some of the most prominent

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