Events on Thursday, November 1
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Architecture in Helsinki
- @ The Fillmore
- So that's what happens when you lock eight Australians in a room with an analog sampler and a glockenspiel. (Try that... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Yo La Tengo
- @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
- Beloved indie icons Yo La Tengo have built their expansive career on eclectic, experimental sounds, playing everything from breathy, effervescent pop... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Around the World in 80 Beers
- @ Element Lounge
- In a city where oenophiles are a dime a dozen and sommeliers are the new rock stars, beer is often cast... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Takeshi Murata
- @ Ratio 3
- As the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
- @ de Young Museum
- Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as... View details »
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- Dracula
- @ Cartoon Art Museum
- Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Pioneers
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Amid its recent spat of new exhibitions and edgy curation, CCA's marvelous Wattis Institute pays aesthetical tithes to those Bay Area... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art: Photography
- Jeff Wall
- @ SFMOMA
- Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not... View details »
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Ongoing
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- More Flavor: Festival
- SF Jazz Festival
- @ Various locations
- Celebrating 25 years as the leading festival of its kind, the 41-day-long San Francisco Jazz Festival brings together leading lights of... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada
- @ Galería de la Raza
- In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- The Temporal Moving Image
- @ Haines Gallery
- Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Driss Ouadahi
- @ Hosfelt Gallery
- Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- The Book Art of Edward Gorey
- @ The Book Club of California
- When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Douglas Gordon
- @ SFMOMA
- The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Bachelor Machines Part I
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- For the past few years, London-based artist and filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi (winner of a Beck's Futures Award) has received great acclaim... View details »
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Ongoing
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- A Memory of Shadows and Stone
- @ Jack Hanley Gallery
- Westerners tend to impose self-created "exotic" qualities on Asian cultures when faced with interpreting the Far East. Artist Will Rogan avoids... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Film
- Int'l Latino Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Forrest Williams
- @ Marx & Zavattero
- In Williams' latest show, the theme of porches stands for a state of uncertainty, an in-between space that's neither interior nor... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Recent Works
- @ Electric Works
- Nathan Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl... View details »
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- RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists'... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
- @ Oakland Museum of California
- Joan Brown's large, figurative paintings of the local landscape, Wayne Thiebaud's inspired renditions of gumball machines and cafeterias, and Peter Voulkos'... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Alyson Belcher
- @ Robert Tat Gallery
- Best classified as falling between 19th-century spirit photography and Edward Muybridge's motion studies, Alyson Belcher's spectral self-portraits add a graceful and... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Olafur Eliasson
- @ SFMOMA
- From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Sweet Sunny Temper
- @ Double Punch Toy Store
- With prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Jamie Vasta
- @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Anyone who's been keeping an eye on Patricia Sweetow Gallery during the past year or so must have noticed San Francisco-based... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- More Flavor: Festival
- Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
- @ Various locations
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San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from
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Ongoing
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- Derek Boshier
- @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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Known for being a part of the '60s
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OngoingFree
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- Super Heroes Super Villains
- @ Creativity Explored
- In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories... View details »
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