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Ping Pong Gallery Happy Hour
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
Free
In two short years, Ping Pong Gallery has covered considerable ground. Its recent, notable exhibitions of Amanda Curreri, Jeff Eisenberg, and Brian Wasson proved that... View details »
Ping Pong Gallery Happy Hour
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PLAySPACE Gallery Benefit Auction
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (7pm) @ California College of the Arts - San Francisco Campus
Free
... pan style="">Located across from the venerable Wattis Institute, PLAySPACE Gallery exhibits emerging and renowned artists, consistently in step with the CCA's vision, helping cement... View details »
PLAySPACE Gallery Benefit Auction

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Free
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' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Art
Driss Ouadahi
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Hosfelt Gallery More times »
Free
Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss Ouadahi and West Coaster... View details »
Driss Ouadahi
Art
Takeshi Murata
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
...  the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi Murata's video pieces. His... View details »
Takeshi Murata
Art
The Gun Show
Friday Nov 16, 2007 @ Root Division More times »
Free
As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations like no other device... View details »
The Gun Show
Art
Jamie Vasta
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery More times »
Free
Anyone who's been keeping an eye on Patricia Sweetow Gallery during the past year or so must have noticed San Francisco-based Jamie Vasta's work tucked... View details »
Jamie Vasta
Art
Forrest Williams
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
In Williams' latest show, the theme of porches stands for a state of uncertainty, an in-between space that's neither interior nor exterior. It proves to... View details »
Forrest Williams
Art
Alyson Belcher
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Robert Tat Gallery More times »
Free
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 eerie contribution to the... View details »
Alyson Belcher
Art
Inside Terrorism
Friday Nov 16, 2007 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library More times »
Free
Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak surrounding acts of terrorism.... View details »
Inside Terrorism
Art
Super Heroes Super Villains
Friday Nov 16, 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
Art
Bulk
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
Queen's Nails Annex presents the work of multidisciplinary artist Tony Labat, who combines elements of installation, sculpture, performance, and video, not to mention a healthy... View details »
Bulk
Art
Recent Works
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
... than Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl architecture. Even with all... View details »
Recent Works
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Sweet Sunny Temper
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Double Punch Toy Store More times »
Free
... th prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails, and a serious attitude... View details »
Sweet Sunny Temper
Art
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
Free
Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost diametrically opposed coteries. Fortunately,... View details »
Mike Henderson and William Powhida
Art
Rex Ray
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16 More times »
Free
An exhibition of new paintings further cements Rex Ray's status among San Francisco's most prolific artists and designers. Gallery 16's show... View details »
Rex Ray
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Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
For the duration of the gallery's Winter Session, Polk Street's San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery space will serve as the command center for the Mission... View details »
Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
Art
Displaced
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
Art
Van Arno
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–7pm) @ The Shooting Gallery More times »
Free
LA-based painter Van Arno survived early fame in the Juxtapoz school of lowbrow art, and come out the other side a dedicated craftsman. Arno's influences... View details »
Van Arno
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ The Book Club of California More times »
Free
When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and moribund imagination to others.... View details »
The Book Art of Edward Gorey