All events on Saturday December 01
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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From Monuments to Masses
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
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Following their brief visit to Japan, post-punk ideologues From Monuments to Masses return to the States for a West Coast mini-tour. Their 2005 release, Schools... View details »
- Film
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The Living End
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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The Living End, Gregg Araki's queering of Bonnie and Clyde, was an impassioned and at times puerile middle finger to the coddling AIDS dramas and... View details »
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ Freight & Salvage Coffee House
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Famously described as the missing link between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott has been howling folk blues for 50 years now, picking... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
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Kathy Griffin
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (7pm) @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
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After years of languishing between projects, flame-haired actress Kathy Griffin has successfully parlayed her attention-grabbing, self-deprecating (read: annoying) persona into bona fide D-list fame. She... View details »
- Reading
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Arthur Drooker
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (2pm) @ Barnes & Noble
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Those who think ruins can only be claimed by countries such as China, Egypt, and Greece will be in for a surprise when they hear... View details »
- More Flavor: Shopping
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CCA Holiday Fair
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–3pm) @ Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts
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... th the season of giving right around the corner, nothing says "I love you" (or at the least, "Hey, we're buddies!") like something handcrafted.... View details »
- Art
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Asian Art Museum Community Day
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum
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... a way of saying thank you, the Asian Art Museum presents traditional storytelling and a Korean-drumming performance (and free admission!).... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Saturday Dec 1, 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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Nothing Moments
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Saturday Dec 1, 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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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10:30am–5pm) @ 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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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Saturday Dec 1, 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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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ 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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Saturday Dec 1, 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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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ 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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Bulk
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex
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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 »
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GROUNDED?
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Saturday Dec 1, 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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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ 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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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–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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Saturday Dec 1, 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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Saturday Dec 1, 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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Big Ideas, Small Works
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Saturday Dec 1, 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 »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
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Circus Oz
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Saturday Dec 1, 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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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Civil Twilight
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Electric Works
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Electric Works' new group show serves as the perfect prelude to the year's end. Civil Twilight addresses the opposing forces of destruction and transition, mirroring... View details »
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More Brains! Part II
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Saturday Dec 1, 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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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Swarm Gallery
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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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Apocalypse Now
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Jeff Wall
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Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ 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 »
