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Looking for popular weekend events in California?Trip.com highlights a wide array of must-see events. The San Francisco Fall Show 2024 promises an elegant exhibition of fine arts and antiques, drawing collectors and enthusiasts alike to the city's renowned Fort Mason Center. Meanwhile, the San Francisco International Tea Festival 2024 offers tea lovers an immersive experience, featuring tastings, workshops, and expert talks on the art of tea from around the world. For those interested in innovation and creativity, the Orange County Maker Faire 2024 presents an exciting showcase of inventions, DIY projects, and interactive exhibits that celebrate the maker culture. The skies will come alive at the MCAS Miramar Air Show 2024, where aviation enthusiasts can witness breathtaking aerobatic performances and displays of military aircraft in action. Art aficionados can explore contemporary works at the Other Art Fair Los Angeles 2024, where independent artists from around the globe gather to exhibit their latest pieces. These events, continuously updated, ensure that California remains a hub for culture, creativity, and entertainment every weekend.
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Table Manners | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Table Manners brings together tableware, flatware, and drinkware from the SFMOMA Architecture + Design collection spanning nearly 100 years. The exhibition celebrates the ways design has shaped our relationship to food, our bodies, and communities, and how dining can be a profound communal and cultural experience. From self-filling wine glasses and teapots made of tea, to crisp modernist spoons and flatware made from discarded CDs, Table Manners explores the performance of dining. The exhibition includes works by Virgil Abloh, Joe Colombo, Zaha Hadid, Roberto Lugo, and many more, accompanied by illustrations and textiles by Lucy Stark.
Jaws: The Exhibition | Los Angeles
Experience Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) like never before. Jaws: The Exhibition is the first-ever exhibition of this scale at the Academy Museum, focused exclusively on a single film, and the largest mounted exhibition ever for Jaws, the Oscar®-winning film from Universal Pictures. It celebrates the film’s 50th anniversary and revisits Jaws scene by scene, through original objects, behind-the-scenes revelations, and interactive moments. Curated with direct access to the collections from Steven Spielberg and The Amblin Hearth Archive, NBCUniversal Archives & Collections, and more, the exhibition dives deep into the film’s production history and explores its enduring impact.
Directed by Oscar-winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws became the first summer blockbuster that forever changed the movie industry. The suspenseful adventure film, adapted from the novel by Peter Benchley, is centered on three main characters—Brody, Hooper, and Quint—who hunt a great white shark menacing the seaside town of Amity Island. The monumental success of Jaws belies uncertain beginnings, where production challenges arising from an unprecedented mechanical shark spurred creative problem-solving. Over five decades later, it remains clear that the tenacity of its cast and crew led to the realization of this beloved classic, one of the most influential films in motion picture history.
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair | Daly City
Dickens Christmas Market is a one-of-a-kind immersive adventure in Victorian London, an elaborate holiday party where hundreds of costumed actors perform and interact with patrons across more than 140,000 square feet of theatre-lit concert halls, bars, dance floors and festive shops.
It's always Christmas Eve at the Big Dickens Christmas Market! The market transports you to Charles Dickens' London - a city of winding alleys and filled with colorful characters from literature and history - all in the spirit of the holidays! The enticing aroma of roasting chestnuts and hearty foods fills the air. The cries of street vendors hawking their wares echo through the bustling crowds. Dozens of brightly lit shops are filled with handmade gifts. A Bay Area tradition since 1970, Dickens Christmas Market is a great way to celebrate the holidays. Once you arrive at the Victoria Station concourse, enjoy a new immersive experience and live steam train.
TWICE <THIS IS FOR> WORLD TOUR IN OAKLAND | Oakland Arena
Celebrate TWICE《THIS IS FOR》WORLD TOUR IN OAKLAND at Oakland Arena from January 17 to 18, 2026. Enjoy two unforgettable nights of music, dance, and connection with TWICE. Don’t wait—grab your seats now for this must-see tour stop in California.
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight | Huntington Library
Nov. 11, 2023–Nov. 30, 2027 | Renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward Twilight”—commissioned by The Huntington—is a site-specific installation that features a 17-foot-long vintage wooden canoe and found objects, including birdcages, antlers, and natural materials harvested by Saar from The Huntington’s grounds.
Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds brings together over 80 artworks from MOCA’s renowned collection, demonstrating how artists create their own worlds through their art–building networks, circles, and mythologies. Embracing the boundaries between the personal and the social, public and private lives, as well as emotional and psychological states, works in the show privilege sites of creativity and the place of the imagination to conjure new worlds and possibilities. Friendship, love, and intimacy become important starting points for artistic expression. The exhibition features work in all media across different geographies, cultures, and periods, by artists including Belkis Ayón, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mona Hatoum, Candice Lin, Annette Messeger, Wangechi Mutu, Lucas Samaras, Mohammed Sami, Tunga, and Haegue Yang, as well as a gallery dedicated to Nan Goldin.
Zheng Chongbin: Golden State | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Over the past four decades, Shanghai-born, Marin County–based artist Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961) has cultivated a unique practice that engages with the driving concepts and aesthetics of the Light and Space movement and East Asia’s tradition of ink painting. Educated in both traditional Chinese figurative painting and installation and performance art, Zheng synthesizes these seemingly disparate practices into unprecedented signature painting and video techniques. Zheng Chongbin: Golden State is a focused presentation that features two video installation pieces coupled with painted and printed works. Through abstract forms and distorted views of California’s natural landscape, Zheng explores water, light, and movement in his signature works.
MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi is the third exhibition in the recently relaunched MOCA Focus series, which presents an artist’s first solo museum show in Los Angeles and centers on new or discrete bodies of work. Born in Okayama, Japan, in 1952, Yamaguchi moved to the U.S. in the early 1970s and began to appropriate imagery from sources as diverse as Mexican muralism, Renaissance art, Japanese Nihonga, and Art Nouveau in ornate paintings that pose a challenge to rigid notions of ethnic identity and cultural ownership. At age seventy-two, the Los Angeles–based artist is synthesizing the motifs she has developed over the past forty years in a series of archly stylized oil-and-bronze-leaf seascapes featured in this exhibition. Yamaguchi’s precise yet luscious paintings incorporate her “Eastern” and “Western”-influenced vocabulary of abstract zigzags, spirals, and braids to denote natural forms like rain, waves, and mountains, representing a culmination of her decades-long provocations of style, taste, and identity.
Guadalupe Maravilla: Les soñadores | REDCAT ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER
For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Guadalupe Maravilla transforms REDCAT into an environment for healing and storytelling. Born in El Salvador, Maravilla fled the country at the age of eight as an unaccompanied minor to escape the violence of the twelve-year Salvadoran Civil War, reuniting with his family in the United States. As an adult, the artist survived cancer, a disease he believes resulted from the childhood traumas of war, migration, exile, and living in the US undocumented. Throughout this new exhibition, Maravilla retraces his personal journey as a migrant while connecting it with the journeys of others, offering a site for ancestral healing and collective care.
Grounded | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Grounded invites visitors to see land not just as terrain, but as a foundation for exploring ecology, sovereignty, memory, and home. Featuring 35 artists based in the Americas and the Pacific, the exhibition showcases 40 works, spanning the 1970s to today, with many on view for the first time. Works include Lisa Reihana’s monumental video installation In Pursuit of Venus [infected] that reimagines colonial narratives from her perspective as a Māori artist; photographs and video by Clarissa Tossin, Laura Aguilar, and Ana Mendieta that trace the artists’ bodies in dialogue with the earth; paintings and sculptures by Rose B. Simpson and Eamon Ore Girón that blend technology with Indigenous iconography and craft; and works by Leslie Martinez and Abraham Cruzvillegas that upcycle everyday materials to document consumption and to suggest possibilities for renewal.
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