San José Museum of Art

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ARTRAGE

7–10 PM
$5 after 5 PM (members 2-for-1)

Celebrate the new exhibition Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India and enjoy Bollywood-style entertainment, including music from DJ Salim, a dance lesson by the Mona Khan Company (8 PM), and a DIY Art activity for adults.

ArtRage is also the “closing party” for Momentum: an experiment in the unexpected (which ends February 22). From 7–8 PM, meet the creative “interveners” behind Momentum: bicycle designer Craig Calfee; inventor John Edmark; comedian Dhaya Lakshminarayanan; calligrapher Carl Rohrs; San Francisco Ballet’s Damian Smith; yarn-bombing street artist Streetcolor; and sound artist Marc Weidenbaum. Each will speak about his or her project in a progressive tour of the exhibition. Plus see a new short film about artist Trina Merry’s live bodypaint performance inspired by Andy Goldsworthy (continuous screenings from 7–10 PM).

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Momentum: an experiment in the unexpected

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This exhibition sets out to disrupt the status quo and show that art is anything but just an inanimate object. For its forty-fifth anniversary, SJMA invited creative movers and shakers from the realms of design, comedy, performance, music, writing, and dance to disrupt this exhibition of its permanent collection with their personal artistic responses to the art on view. Their interventions can take whatever form and be in whatever media, and in whatever scale, they so choose.

Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India

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Two generations after the exultation of Independence and the concurrent horrors of Partition, contemporary Indian photographers reclaim and reappraise the history of colonialism in their country. These artists look closely and critically at historical Indian photography and draw on diverse sources of inspiration. They take matters of history into their own hands, redefining the iconic historical images of India and investigating the complex relationship between traditions of representation and contemporary image-making.