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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
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Friday Dec 7, 2007 (9pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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Controversy may be a common factor in film history, but it's difficult to imagine a movie ever matching Salò's infamy. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Melt Banana
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Friday Dec 7, 2007 (9pm) @ The Independent
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Post-hardcore noiseniks born from pools of unflinching aggression, Japan's Melt Banana out-racket the most dedicated avant-aggro acts with sets comprised of minute-long mini-anthems that are... View details »
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Diva
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Friday Dec 7, 2007 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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... genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the glossy, style-conscious movement... View details »
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Body Heat
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Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10pm) @ Elbo Room
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Those familiar with Brian Hollon's earlier downtempo beats may scratch their heads when he activates the rave sirens in his new dance jams. The LA-based... View details »
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Boosh! Noel
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Friday Dec 7, 2007 (9pm–2am) @ Ghosttown Gallery
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Your grandmother and fans of Leslie Hall, respectively, know the collective value of glitter, some plastic baubles, hot glue, and an acrylic V-neck sweater. Incidentally,... View details »
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Tormenta Tropical
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Friday Dec 7, 2007 (9pm–2am) @ The Dark Room (at Club 6ix)
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In between releasing records by local songbirds like Emily Jane White, Double Negative Records head honcho Shawn Reynaldo turned his ear toward the bedroom cumbia... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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"The There, There"
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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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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Friday Dec 7, 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 »
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Ingmar Bergman
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Friday Dec 7, 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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Jeff Wall
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Friday Dec 7, 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 »
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Paper! Paper! Paper!
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Friday Dec 7, 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 »
