San José Museum of Art

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Third Thursday: Film Night

Robert Arneson
Five Times for Harvey, 1982
Mixed media on paper
30 × 24 inches
Gift of J. Michael Bewley
©Estate of Robert Arneson, 2018, licensed by VAGA, New York, New York.

7 PM
Tickets are $5 (free to members) and include Museum admission 5–8 PM

Robert Arneson’s Five Times for Harvey (1988), a powerful tribute to the late gay rights activist Harvey Milk, is a highlight of SJMA’s exhibition Rise Up! Social Justice in Art from the Collection of J. Michael Bewley. SJMA will screen Robert Epstein’s acclaimed 1984 documentary The Times of Harvey Milk (131 minutes), a vivid portrait of San Francisco’s historic Castro District in the 1970s. 

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Rise Up! Social Justice in Art from the Collection of J. Michael Bewley

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This exhibition highlights the generous 2016 donation to SJMA’s collection by J. Michael Bewley, as well as works from Bewley’s personal collection. Bewley, a retired employment lawyer in San José, was committed to combatting social injustices in the workplace. Spanning nearly a hundred years of artistic production and encompassing various mediums including painting, sculpture, collage, photography, and textile, these works are united by a strong social and political motivation.