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32 South Bay Accent CALENDAR Museums OCTOBER After Hours: Oktoberfest Bavarian Festival. Oct. 2, 7 p.m. to midnight. Gather with adults 21 and older to enjoy science, technology, entertainment and cocktails set to mood lighting and music. Tickets $8-$10. The Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 S. Market St., San Jose. 408/294-8324. Artists Observe Nature, 1600-1800. Through Oct. 5. The works of artists including Paul Sandby, William Gilpin and Wenceslaus Hollar are featured in this exhibition consisting of approximately 16 prints and drawings that reveal the empiricist’s impulse to capture nature on paper. Open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. Thursday). Free. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. 650/723-4177. Night, Smoke and Shadows: The Presence Sympathy for the Devil, through Dec. 1, Cantor of Atmosphere in the 19th Century. Through Oct. 5. This exhibition includes 18 prints, drawings and photographs by artists including James McNeill Whistler, Max Klinger and Félicien Rops – all 19th-century artists who manipulated the appearance of atmosphere to create illusions. Open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. Thursday). Free. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. 650/723-4177. Daumier on Art and the Theatre. Oct. 15-March 16, 2015. This exhibition includes 16 prints and one drawing by Honoré Daumier, who made prints for the popular press that deal with art theory, and the performing arts after 1840. Open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. Thursday). Free. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. 650/723-4177. Shop, Gallery, Studio: The Art World in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Oct. 15-March 16, 2015. During the 17th and 18th centuries, European artists rendered in prints and drawings the new and traditional spaces in which people could view, buy and talk about art. The images here depict different sites in the evolving art world. Open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. Thursday). Free. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. 650/723-4177. Arts Center, Stanford Third Thursday: Haunted Happy Hour. Oct. 16, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Put on a costume and head to the Museum for a ghostly gallery talk, creepy cocktails and monstrous music. Tickets $5. San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St. San Jose. 408/271-6855. Enter the Mandala: Cosmic Centers and Mental Maps of Himalayan Buddhism. Through Oct. 26. Featuring 14th century paintings, this exhibit provides an opportunity for visitors to experience mandalas in three dimensions. Open Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (9 p.m. Thursday). Tickets $10-$15, free for children 12 and under. Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco. 415/581-3500. Pop Art from the Anderson Collection. Through Oct. 26, 2015. Ten spectacular Pop Art works originally part of Harry and Mary Margaret Anderson’s private collection will be on display in this exhibit including a Andy Warhol self-portrait; three works by Roy Lichtenstein;  Claes Oldenburg’s “Funeral Heart”; Robert Indiana’s iconic  “Love” painting; and paintings by Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist.  Open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. Thursday). Free. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. 650/723-4177. NOVEMBER Community Day: Dia de los Muertos. Nov. 1, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Celebrate the Day of the Dead with a day of live entertainment, cultural demonstrations and hands-on family fun. Decorate sugar skulls and make other crafts inspired by this festive holiday. Free. San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St., San Jose. 408/271-6855. Big Picture. Through Nov. 2. California Academy’s first major photo- graphy exhibit illustrates and celebrates the incredible diver- sity of life on Earth through 45 striking works from professional-level nature and conservation photographers. Open Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission $24.95-$34.95; free for children under 3. California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. 415/379-8000. The New Landscape: Experiments in Light by Gyorgy Kepes. Through Nov. 17. This exhibition explores the question of art’s relevance in a scientific age through the work of Hungarian-born American  artist, designer and visual theorist Gyorgy Kepes (1906- 2001). Open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. Thursday). Free. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. 650/723-4177. sjDANCEco, Oct. 17-18, California Theatre, San Jose


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