Events on Thursday, November 29
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- Shampoo
- @ The Castro Theatre
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Hal Ashby was hardly your typical
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- Eric Schlosser
- @ Herbst Theater
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Eric Schlosser made a name for himself with Fast Food Nation, the best-selling critique of
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- Big Ideas, Small Works
- @ Sculpturesite Gallery
- Big-ticket American art sometimes seems to come in one size only: extra-large. Such scaling can be subversive, but all too often... View details »
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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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- Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Circus Oz
- @ Zellerbach Hall
- Defying convention and gravity, Circus Oz's acrobats, trapeze artists, jugglers, tightrope walkers, and BMX trick riders will elicit both thrills and... View details »
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- Mission Greenbelt Project Launch Party
- @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- For the duration of the gallery's Winter Session, Polk Street's San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery space will serve as the command... View details »
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- Mike Henderson and William Powhida
- @ Haines Gallery
- Haines Gallery's simultaneous exhibition of Mike Henderson and William Powhida is a curious move, given that the artists belong to almost... 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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- 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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- 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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- GROUNDED?
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- In celebration of its new home on 14th Street, the innovative Southern Exposure gallery is launching a joint interdisciplinary show with... View details »
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- Nothing Moments
- @ Silverman Gallery
- Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30... 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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- Rex Ray
- @ Gallery 16
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An exhibition of new paintings further cements Rex Ray's status among
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- Charles Chaplin Retrospective
- @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
- Charlie Chaplin's Tramp is an icon by design, but the bowler hat and mustache only go so far towards describing the... View details »
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- Apocalypse Now
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Politically engaged duo Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla have become a major presence on SF's art scene this fall with their... View details »
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- "The There, There"
- @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Golden Girls: The X-Mas Episodes
- @ The Finn Theatre
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Trannyshack royalty Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
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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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- The Little Show
- @ Swarm Gallery
- The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers.... View details »
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- Ruth Asawa
- @ Rena Bransten Gallery
- Despite the obvious differences in their work, Ruth Asawa's fabric sculptures inspire comparisons with the late Georgia O'Keefe. Both evoke the... View details »
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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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- San Francisco Int'l Auto Show
- @ Moscone Center
- San Francisco's steep streets are justifiably famous, but what about the cars that drive up and down them? The 50th Annual... View details »
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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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- Film
- Hannah Takes the Stairs
- @ Red Vic
- Hannah Takes the Stairs may be the first collective effort to emerge from the "true-blue indie" movement burgeoning in the last... View details »
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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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- Lucy McKenzie
- @ SFMOMA
- Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At... View details »
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- after the quake
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
- Given the Bay Area's propensity for seismic activity (residents need only think as far back as October 30 for the latest... View details »
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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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- More Brains! Part II
- @ Space Gallery
- Other than Halloween, few occasions inspire thoughts of the undead like the holiday season — which may explain why Space Gallery... View details »
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- Van Arno
- @ The Shooting Gallery
- LA-based painter Van Arno survived early fame in the Juxtapoz school of lowbrow art, and come out the other side a... View details »
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- Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm
- @ Robert Koch Gallery
- Debbie Fleming Caffery and Larry Schwarm's photographs of ravaged homes in Louisiana and Kansas, respectively, straddle the line between fine art... View details »
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