All events on Friday January 18
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Let's Get Lost
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Friday Jan 18 @ The Castro Theatre
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The Castro screens a new 35mm restoration of Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber's rapturous 1988 portrait of trumpet crooner Chet Baker. Once the epitome... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Cornelius
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Friday Jan 18 (9pm) @ The Fillmore
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Even if Cornelius' orange-cream-soda dream of an album Fantasma didn't net him the pop crossover status he so richly deserved when it first hit college... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Om
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Friday Jan 18 (9pm) @ The Independent
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Om parsed the stripped, devotional hum from their stoner-metal roots in Sleep, and their new record, Pilgrimage, sounds like Alice Coltrane if she'd bumped... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Joy Division
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Friday Jan 18 (7pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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2007 was a banner year for Joy Division retrospectives, with remastered editions of the original albums, Anton Corbijn's striking Ian Curtis biopic, Control, and... View details »
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Fray Issue 1: Busted!
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Friday Jan 18 (7pm) @ Booksmith
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Fray started as a storytelling blog for writers' true stories about everything from working at KFC to delivering a baby during Super Bowl weekend. All... View details »
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Conduits of Labor
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Friday Jan 18 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex
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In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean hausfrau in the digital... View details »
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Jordan Kantor
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Friday Jan 18 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of three stacked skulls serves... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Friday Jan 18 (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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Friday Jan 18 (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 Jan 18 (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 Jan 18 (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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Lucy McKenzie
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Friday Jan 18 (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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Apocalypse Now
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Friday Jan 18 (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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Friday Jan 18 @ 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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Friday Jan 18 (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 »
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Jeff Wall
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Friday Jan 18 (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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Gee Vaucher
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Friday Jan 18 (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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Friday Jan 18 (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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Friday Jan 18 (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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Andrew Moore
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Friday Jan 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery
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Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling walls and hollow interiors... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Lynch
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Friday Jan 18 @ Red Vic
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American filmmaker David Lynch has become increasingly inscrutable as he actively promotes transcendental meditation and releases ever more enigmatic works — namely 2006's Inland Empire.... View details »
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Finders Keepers
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Friday Jan 18 (10am–3pm) @ 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 »
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Caroline Hwang
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Friday Jan 18 (11:30am–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 »
