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Eric Schlosser
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (8pm) @ Herbst Theater
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Eric Schlosser made a name for himself with Fast Food Nation, the best-selling critique of America's fast-food industry done in the muckraking style of... View details »
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Big Ideas, Small Works
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery
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Big-ticket American art sometimes seems to come in one size only: extra-large. Such scaling can be subversive, but all too often it seems like yet... View details »
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Shampoo
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (7pm) @ The Castro Theatre
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Hal Ashby was hardly your typical Hollywood director, producing several memorably off-center movies during his career — that is, after beginning his adult life by... View details »
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Circus Oz
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Zellerbach Hall
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Defying convention and gravity, Circus Oz's acrobats, trapeze artists, jugglers, tightrope walkers, and BMX trick riders will elicit both thrills and laughs. Circus Oz avoids... View details »
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Ruth Asawa
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery
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Despite the obvious differences in their work, Ruth Asawa's fabric sculptures inspire comparisons with the late Georgia O'Keefe. Both evoke the natural world while refusing... View details »
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Apocalypse Now
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Politically engaged duo Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla have become a major presence on SF's art scene this fall with their co-curated exhibition at CCA... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley
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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 »
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Driss Ouadahi
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Hosfelt Gallery
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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 »
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Takeshi Murata
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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... 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 »
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Nothing Moments
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery
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Proving that even "nothing" takes a lot of effort to create, four organizers, 37 visual artists, 38 writers, and nearly 30 designers offer a multi-city... View details »
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Jamie Vasta
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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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 »
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Forrest Williams
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero
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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 »
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Alyson Belcher
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Robert Tat Gallery
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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 »
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Douglas Gordon
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
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Dracula
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum
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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 »
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Olafur Eliasson
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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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 »
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GROUNDED?
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Intersection for the Arts
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In celebration of its new home on 14th Street, the innovative Southern Exposure gallery is launching a joint interdisciplinary show with its neighbor, the revered... View details »
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Lucy McKenzie
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
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Rex Ray
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16
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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 »
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Van Arno
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (noon–7pm) @ The Shooting Gallery
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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 »
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"The There, There"
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Esteban Sabar Gallery
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... :p> Although Gertrude Stein's quip that in Oakland, "there was no there, there," is nearly a century old, the phrase's longevity underscores Oakland's... View details »
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R.K.O. Lost & Found
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center
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In the opening moments of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a pair of disembodied lips sings, "I want to go / to the late-night double-feature... View details »
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More Brains! Part II
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Space Gallery
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Other than Halloween, few occasions inspire thoughts of the undead like the holiday season — which may explain why Space Gallery is launching its second... View details »
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The Little Show
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Swarm Gallery in Oakland
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The war against super-sized burgers and palatial McMansions has a new front, and it is defended by more than toy soldiers. Swarm Gallery, known for... View details »
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Jeff Wall
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
