Mills College Art Museum — Attraction in Oakland

Small art museum on a quiet private college campus. Check with them before you go, as the permanent collection was replaced by the students art thesis display - which was OK, but not what we expected. Building cool and open, interesting place to visit. I went to a fine art final year student exhibition in the 1970s in Newcastle in the UK. The major development seems to have been that the gender identity of the artists is now made available, along with their name, materials used, and the title...

Art is no longer art, but a trivialized something, mostly trash; trash of trash... Nothing noble, but just the opposite. In plain view and unnoticed is the exquisite creation of God that many of so called "artists" no longer see, but trample all over it! Sad, sad, sad. The sign of a doomed generation! Even the decadents of the past were more artistic then many...

A small, but beautiful museum that provides escape from the urban East Bay. Bonus: free and open to the public. Currently on view until December 10, 2017 is "In-Between Places: Korean American Artists in the Bay Area." I saw it with my teenage son and we recommend that you...