Going to the exhibition "Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia" at the Legion of Honor is like visiting a beloved old friend; it's an antidote to Super Bowl fatigue or whatever ails you.

BAMPFA's new home is a 1939 UC Berkeley printing plant "repurposed" by Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects, who've integrated a curvilinear machine aesthetic and given the streamlined moderne, late Deco style a 21st-century panache.

The show, which inaugurates the opening of the San Francisco Arts Commission's expanded, newly renovated main gallery in the War Memorial Veterans Building, is focused on the body, fractured and transmuted into art.

The house, Ireland's residence for three decades until several years before his death in 2009, is possibly his greatest, most enduring achievement, and his legacy.

Get ready for an onslaught of new art complexes and renovated and expanded spaces in the first half of this brand new year, along with a plentitude of artworks that will fill them.

The time has come to look back on the year that was with a mixture of bemusement, pleasure and regret.

Thirty-three double exposures, quickie portraits, color photographs and a smattering of press photos, all of female subjects, are currently on view in "Vernacular Vixens: Found Images from the Robert E. Jackson Collection."

A week away, in Washington DC for familial holiday obligations, also meant a few happy afternoons spent amidst the bounty of our national art museums. An inveterate museumgoer, Out There can recommend the following exhibitions.

Women rule as authors of their art, which doesn't mean that men don't make solid showings, in gallery exhibitions running through December. Take a look.

Japan's two-dimensional designs, clean lines, geometric patterns, dynamic compositions and coloration helped define what we now think of as modernism.

It has been 100 years since the San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition opened its gates to the 19 million visitors who flocked to see it in 1915. A fraction of what was once displayed there is currently on view at the de Young.

The Asian Art Museum continues its march into the present and its bid to win the hearts and minds of younger audiences with "First Look: Collecting Contemporary" at the Asian, the second of two exhibitions this year that have accentuated modern art.

Fall offerings at the museums may seem a little thin compared to years past, as we await 2016 and the arrival of the expanded and renovated SFMOMA and the reopening of the Berkeley Art Museum in its new digs.

Fall is nearly here, a time when local galleries roll out a fleet of eclectic exhibitions.