All events on Saturday January 26
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8th Annual Edwardian Ball
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Saturday Jan 26 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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The gala event in a weekendlong program of Edwardian (and Edward Gorey-ian) festivities, the Deranged Cousins Ball gives attending lords and ladies a grand opportunity... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Au Revoir Simone
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Saturday Jan 26 (9pm) @ The Independent
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Named after a hilariously unforgettable scene in Tim Burton's Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Brooklyn girl-band Au Revoir Simone sing serious pop harmonies with electro-synth spunk.... View details »
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An-My Lê
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Saturday Jan 26 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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White Williams
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Saturday Jan 26 (9:30pm) @ Cafe du Nord
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A noise-rock veteran and former tourmate of fellow gee-whiz electro artists Dan Deacon and Girl Talk, Joe Williams was still only 23 when he dropped... View details »
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Lady Miss Kier
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Saturday Jan 26 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
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While the retro-fabulous trio Deee-Lite disbanded more than a decade ago, its distinctively flamboyant frontwoman, Lady Miss Kier, has gone on to establish a solo... View details »
- Music: Classical
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Kronos Quartet
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Saturday Jan 26 (11am) @ Herbst Theater
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In their 30 years together, the Kronos Quartet have single-handedly maintained the string quartet's cultural relevance. The San Francisco ensemble's dossier of past collaborations gives... View details »
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Enter the Center
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Saturday Jan 26 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
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For the past couple of years, local artists Frank Lyon and David Wilson have played music together as Ship. Under the umbrella of Ribbons Publications,... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Saturday Jan 26 (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 26 (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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Olafur Eliasson
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Saturday Jan 26 @ 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 26 (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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Saturday Jan 26 (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 26 @ 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 26 (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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Saturday Jan 26 (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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Boomerang
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Saturday Jan 26 (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 26 (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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Jens Haaning
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Saturday Jan 26 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His daring conceptual works toy... View details »
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Andrew Moore
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Saturday Jan 26 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
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Amoeba Art Show
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Saturday Jan 26 (8pm) @ Space Gallery
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This multimedia group show gives Amoeba's clerks and stockers a chance to show off their talents — beyond pointing you towards that obscure Bavarian microhouse... View details »
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Finders Keepers
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Saturday Jan 26 (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 »
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African Film Festival
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Saturday Jan 26 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night belongs to Abderrahmane Sissako's... View details »
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Chuck Arnett
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Saturday Jan 26 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society
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June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
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Conduits of Labor
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Saturday Jan 26 (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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Caroline Hwang
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Saturday Jan 26 (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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Jordan Kantor
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Saturday Jan 26 (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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Bad Moon Rising
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Saturday Jan 26 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery
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Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising continues the sentiment that... View details »
