All events on Thursday December 20
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- Music: DJ
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Popscene's Holiday Gala
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (9pm–3am) @ Popscene
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Mike Relm's fluency in both mainstream pop culture and esoteric, art-house aesthetics informs his ingenious mashup DVDs — which have been used as backdrops for... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
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Alice Waters
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Red Hill Books
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Berkeley residents know her as the founder of standard bearers Chez Panisse and Cafe Fanny; film buffs remember her as the chef who cooked Werner... View details »
- Film
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Fanny and Alexander
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman was a natural for television, his predilection for big ideas and slow burns working to more subtle effect across a miniseries'... View details »
- Music: Classical
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The Wizard of Oz
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (7pm) @ Davies Symphony Hall
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Victor Fleming's Technicolor adaptation of Frank L. Baum's fantasy tale didn't really gain its foothold in popular culture until it reappeared on television in 1956.... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Thursday Dec 20, 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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Forrest Williams
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Thursday Dec 20, 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 Dec 20, 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 Dec 20, 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 Dec 20, 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 Dec 20, 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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Lucy McKenzie
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Thursday Dec 20, 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 Dec 20, 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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Big Ideas, Small Works
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Thursday Dec 20, 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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Ruth Asawa
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Thursday Dec 20, 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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Civil Twilight
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ 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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The Little Show
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Thursday Dec 20, 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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Thursday Dec 20, 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 »
- Film: Documentary
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All in This Tea
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 @ Roxie New College Film Center
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Over his four-decade career, local documentary filmmaker Les Blank has shaped any number of sympathetic portraits filled with ethnographic color and individual voices. His latest,... View details »
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Ingmar Bergman
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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Whether they're set in a plague-ravaged medieval landscape or in a stifling island summer home, Ingmar Bergman's films place humankind's uncertainty in the face of... View details »
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In the Fullness of Time
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store
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Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades as a respected venue... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Jeff Wall
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Thursday Dec 20, 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 »
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Robots Are Art
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10am–10pm) @ Float
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... om prosthetic limbs to dental-training aids to in-car GPS navigation, robots and robotics technology have become fully integrated into our everyday lives. Celebrating all... View details »
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Paper! Paper! Paper!
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Market Street Gallery
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The Market Street Gallery's latest group show explores the potential of that most humble of mediums: paper. Twenty-five local artists salute the two-dimensional form through... View details »
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Gee Vaucher
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
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Having designed much of the album art for '80s anarcho-peace punks Crass, Gee Vaucher continues to turn her straight razor on the visual culture of... View details »
