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Dracula
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum More times »
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his drawings maintaining a darkly... View details »
Dracula
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Olafur Eliasson
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
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Bachelor Machines Part I
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
For the past few years, London-based artist and filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi (winner of a Beck's Futures Award) has received great acclaim for her quiet, poignant... View details »
Bachelor Machines Part I
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Pioneers
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Amid its recent spat of new exhibitions and edgy curation, CCA's marvelous Wattis Institute pays aesthetical tithes to those Bay Area artists whose vanguard practices... View details »
Pioneers
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
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Derek Boshier
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (11:30am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts More times »
Free
... own for being a part of the '60s London scene, self-proclaimed "populist artist" Derek Boshier draws inspiration from magazine covers, both real... View details »
Derek Boshier
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Super Heroes Super Villains
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories of real-life warriors. This... View details »
Super Heroes Super Villains
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A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Joan Brown's large, figurative paintings of the local landscape, Wayne Thiebaud's inspired renditions of gumball machines and cafeterias, and Peter Voulkos' dynamic sculptural constructions are... View details »
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
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A Memory of Shadows and Stone
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
Westerners tend to impose self-created "exotic" qualities on Asian cultures when faced with interpreting the Far East. Artist Will Rogan avoids this trap in his... View details »
A Memory of Shadows and Stone
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SF Jazz Festival
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
Celebrating 25 years as the leading festival of its kind, the 41-day-long San Francisco Jazz Festival brings together leading lights of the jazz scene, legends... View details »
SF Jazz Festival
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Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza More times »
Free
In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus of Mexico's popularly supported... View details »
Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada
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The Temporal Moving Image
Thursday Oct 18, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
Free
Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, and Kota Ezawa all... View details »
The Temporal Moving Image