All events on Saturday January 12
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Jandek
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Saturday Jan 12 (7:30pm) @ Swedish American Hall
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After bending record collectors' minds for almost 30 years, the prodigious mystery man Jandek performs in San Francisco for the first time. Beginning with 1978's... View details »
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Aimee Bender
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Saturday Jan 12 (7:30–9:30pm) @ The Make-Out Room
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Local novelist and Other magazine editrix Charlie Anders has curated her monthly literary showcase Writers with Drinks for nearly seven years, and the liquor-drenched series... View details »
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Caroline Hwang
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Saturday Jan 12 (11am–8pm) @ Giant Robot
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Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple, graphic figures — clad... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Saturday Jan 12 (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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Douglas Gordon
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Saturday Jan 12 (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 Jan 12 (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 Jan 12 @ 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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Saturday Jan 12 (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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Big Ideas, Small Works
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Saturday Jan 12 (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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Saturday Jan 12 (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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Apocalypse Now
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Saturday Jan 12 (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 »
- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Saturday Jan 12 @ Various locations
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Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
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In the Fullness of Time
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Saturday Jan 12 (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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Saturday Jan 12 (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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Robots Are Art
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Saturday Jan 12 (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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Gee Vaucher
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Saturday Jan 12 (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 »
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Boomerang
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Saturday Jan 12 (11am–6pm) @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery
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True to its title, Mario Lemos and Laurie O'Brien's intimate exhibit Boomerang traces a parabolic path connecting a wide swath of Bay Area artists, rebounding... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Saturday Jan 12 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
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Finders Keepers
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Saturday Jan 12 (1–6pm) @ Creativity Explored
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Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late, great Cornell, the participants... View details »
