Arts

Enjoy the Exploratorium’s arts programs, which, like our scientific programs, offer a way to understand our world.

Sep
29
Exhibits Plus Explainer Demonstrations

Thursday, September 29, 2016 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

Grab dinner and drinks by the Bay, experience hundreds of exhibits, and play with an array of Explainer-led demonstrations: Drawing Board, Speaker Dissection, Cow Eye or Flower Dissection, and Magic.

Oct
1
Ways of Knowing: Nina Katchadourian in Conversation with Marina McDougall

Saturday, October 1, 2016 • 2:00 p.m.

Exploratorium Artist-in-Residence Nina Katchadourian will describe her two-year process of investigating themes of memory, patience, and boredom; culminating in the new work Floater Theater debuting at the museum this week.

Oct
8
Saturday Cinema: Made to Persuade, Part II

Saturday, October 8, 2016 • 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 p.m.

Investigate merry ways animation has been drafted to deliver targeted messages, from questionable paeans to industry to the patriotic—and occasionally subversive—WWII adventures of Donald Duck.

Oct
20
Cinema Arts and Everything Matters

Thursday, October 20, 2016 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

Learn the novel and nefarious uses of phosphorus at Everything Matters, or take a look at revolutionary visual storytelling from the ’60s and ’70s in the Cinema Arts program Seasons of Unrest: Activist Filmmaking in the Vietnam Era. Also, enjoy our pitch-black Tactile Dome, hundreds of exhibits, and an array of demonstrations. 

Oct
22
Saturday Cinema: Eye Sight

Saturday, October 22, 2016 • Noon and 2:00 pm

Explore optical mechanisms through our classic Explainer-led demonstrations—creating your own pinhole camera and viewing a cow eye dissection—and a short film that revels in the aesthetic wonder of light and sight.

Oct
29
Members-Only Screening: Spooky Celluloid

Saturday, October 29, 2016
10:30 a.m. | Spooky Festivities and Treats
10:45 a.m. | Costume Parade
11:00 a.m. | Film Screening

Accordionist Rob Reich plays along with classic animations to set the mood for Halloween mischief. Felix the Cat, Betty Boop, and others appear in stories filled with fright as well as delight.

Oct
29
Saturday Cinema: Spooky Celluloid

Saturday, October 29, 2016 • 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.

Get ready for some Halloween mischief! Experience the classics with your kids as Felix the Cat, Betty Boop, and creepy characters appear on in stories filled with fright and delight.

Nov
8
La Région Decentrale (2016): A Prepared Projection Performance for Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale (1971) by Gibson + Recoder

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:30 p.m.

Crafted from the four reels of Michael Snow’s three-hour masterwork of structuralist cinema La Région Centrale, La Région Decentrale condenses, reframes, and restructures Snow’s work into an expanded cinema experiment.