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From September 10-18, Christie’s auction house will host a pop-up exhibition of post-war and contemporary art in downtown Los Altos -- an affluent community in California’s booming Silicon Valley. Passerelle, a local real estate and urban planning firm, helped organize the show, which will present major works by Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn, and Tracey Emin as well as cutting-edge contemporary art. The exhibition will include works available for private sale as well as highlights from the upcoming fall auctions in New York.

A panel discussion titled “StART Up: Beginning (and Growing) Your Art Collection” will be held on September 13.

In case further proof was needed that Silicon Valley has become an art destination in its own right, Pace Gallery has announced that the pop-up space it opened in Menlo Park last March — and intended to keep open for just three months — will remain open until the end of 2014.  “We’re having too much fun to stop,” Pace president Marc Glimcher told Artinfo on a phone call from California. Located in a former Tesla dealership on the El Camino Real highway, the gallery plans to keep its current Tara Donovan exhibition up until the end of the summer and then mount a cross-generational group exhibition in the fall.

For Glimcher, the project has been a way to get away from gallery business as usual. “It’s a fresh group of people with a great energy,” he said. “They’re really interested in what the artists are trying to accomplish. Conversations here are about the art, the artists, history. A lot less about auctions, art fairs, and prices. The art market is just not that fascinating. It’s very refreshing to talk about the art.”

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have received a donation of over 200 Native American artifacts from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Art Foundation. The gift, which includes important textiles and ceramics, will significantly enhance the museums’ Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas collection. The donation also includes an unspecified endowment for the collection’s conservation and research.

Weisel, a pioneer of Silicon Valley’s tech industry, began collecting Native American artifacts over 30 years ago. His acquisitions have been guided by the California-based artist and Native American art scholar, Tony Berlant. His collection spans more than 1,000 years of artistic creativity and includes artifacts from the American Southwest, the Northwest Coast, and the Great Plains. Weisel is also an avid collector of postwar American art.

A portion of the gift will be displayed in the exhibition “Lines on the Horizon: Native American Art from the Weisel Family Collection,” which will open on May 3 at the de Young Museum.