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Masterpieces Of Sculpture At San Francisco Museum

This summer at the Legion of Honor, where the classic can always be found, works on paper by artists from Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn to Wayne Thiebaud represent a decade of collecting, and master sculptors Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore are highlighted in special installations.

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Exploratorium Presents Untitled Sculpture

Scottish artist Aeneas Wilder breaks his sculpture Untitled No. 133 in an instant at Exploratorium.

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Exploratorium Presents ‘Virtual Unreality’

Our world is edging more and more towards digital environments. What are the societal and cultural implications? Does it change the way we think? The way we feel? Virtual Unreality, a new interactive exhibition in the Exploratorium’s Seeing Gallery, brings together three digital artworks by internationally-known artists that use game technology to explore the unreality of virtual landscapes.

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Exploratorium Presents Oil Paintings By Theo

Spanish artist Theo depicts the mystery of mathematics and the seemingly endless expansion of fractals in oil paintings on display at the Exploratorium from September 14, 2007 - January 7, 2008.

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Exploratorium Presents ‘Mind’

In Mind, you are the exhibit. Experience your own thoughts, feelings and actions in provocative and unexpected ways in this major new 5000-square-foot Exploratorium exhibition featuring over 40 brand-new interactive exhibits, four years in the making.

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San Francisco Mime Premieres ‘Making A Killing’

This summer the Troupe theatre serves up a new play packed with more song and dance than a Bush administration press conference!

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San Francisco Mayor petitions Speaker Pelosi to pass Armenian Genocide Resolution

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi urging her to support H. Res. 106, the Armenian Genocide Resolution.

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Exploratorium Presents 'Science Of Baseball'

This season, with the All-Star game at AT&T Park in San Francisco on July 10 and the FanFest July 7-10, everybody is talking baseball. Swing into the Exploratorium's website, the place to go to know it all before the game. The Exploratorium has been called "the best science museum in the world" by Scientific American.

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June Is For Families At The Park

Sing a sea chantey, earn a Junior Ranger badge, and take the wheel of a 19th century sailing ship. There's something special for kids at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and the price is right to bring the whole family. It's always free to explore the exhibits in our Visitor Center and to stroll the Hyde Street Pier.

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Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2007

Apple today announced that Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, will kick off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 11, 2007 at San Francisco's Moscone West.

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Creatures from the New Lagoon Festival At Exploratorium

Discover the wild side of the Palace of Fine Arts at the Creatures from the New Lagoon Festival. Celebrate the wildlife, history, and architecture of the Palace of Fine Arts by joining the Exploratorium, California Academy of Sciences, Oakland Museum of California, and Golden Gate Audubon Society in a variety of activities for nature lovers of all ages, organized by the Maybeck Foundation. Enjoy food, storytelling, music, and crafts beside the exquisite, newly renovated lagoon.

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Dive Into Sonic Soup At Listen: Making Sense Of Sound

With Over 55 Exhibits, Continues for Summer 2007 Dive into the sonic soup. Listen: Making Sense of Sound, a major new 5000-square-foot Exploratorium exhibition, three years in the making, features over fifty-five interactive exhibits, forty of them brand new.

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