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Int'l Animation Festival
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
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D. Jud Jones and Risto Topaloski's feature animation, Film Noir, is a prototypical hard-boiled thriller, with not-so-good good guys, truly bad bad guys, and lots... View details »
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Eugene Robinson
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (6pm) @ SF Camerawork
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... nk music and violence, whether cartoonishly depicted (The Ramones' "Beat on the Brat") or brutally meted out (see any chapter from Henry Rollins' Black... View details »
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Strain Andromeda The
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (7pm) @ Roxie New College Film Center
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... deo artist Anne McGuire reverses Robert Wise's 1971 adaptation of Michael Crichton's bestselling science fiction potboiler, shot by shot, to create what she calls... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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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 8, 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 8, 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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Global Lens
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center
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Those seeking solace from American cinema's gratuitous violence and chiseled features will appreciate Global Lens. The annual touring film series showcases the best new feature-length... View details »
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The Gun Show
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 @ Root Division
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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 »
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Jamie Vasta
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Thursday Nov 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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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Inside Terrorism
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
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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 »
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Douglas Gordon
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Thursday Nov 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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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Pioneers
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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Derek Boshier
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (11:30am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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... 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 »
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Super Heroes Super Villains
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored
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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 »
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Recent Works
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Electric Works
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... 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 »
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Sweet Sunny Temper
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Double Punch Toy Store
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... 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Jeff Wall
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Thursday Nov 8, 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 »
