Events on Wednesday, January 30
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Calling All Monsters
- @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
- The Edinburgh Castle plays host to a night of local overdriven guitar pop. Calling All Monsters channel the grit of early... View details »
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- The Art of Two Empires
- @ Masterworks Institute for Works on Paper
- This special exhibit organized by the USF Center for the Pacific Rim and the Japan Society of Northern California showcases the... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Film
- Noir City Film Festival
- @ The Castro Theatre
- Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As... View details »
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Ongoing
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- The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
- @ de Young Museum
- Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Katsushige Nakahashi
- @ SF Camerawork
- While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces... View details »
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- Caroline Hwang
- @ Giant Robot
- Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Tim Lee
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- 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... View details »
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- Jordan Kantor
- @ Ratio 3
- Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Films of Emile de Antonio
- @ SFMOMA
- Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Finders Keepers
- @ Creativity Explored
- Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Chuck Arnett
- @ GLBT Historical Society
- June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- Small Things End, Great Things Endure
- @ New Langton Arts
- Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Boomerang
- @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery
- True to its title, Mario Lemos and Laurie O'Brien's intimate exhibit Boomerang traces a parabolic path connecting a wide swath of... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Is It a Fiber Show?
- @ Bucheon Gallery
- In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- @ American Conservatory Theater
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In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive
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Ongoing
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- Art
- Andrew Moore
- @ Rena Bransten Gallery
- Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Film
- African Film Festival
- @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
- Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Art
- Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just... View details »
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Ongoing
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- In the Fullness of Time
- @ The Luggage Store
- Perched above a gloomy stretch of Market Street and bookended by roughed-up façades, the Luggage Store Gallery has weathered two decades... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- 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'... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Jens Haaning
- @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
- Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Film: Animation
- Persepolis
- @ Various locations
- Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Bad Moon Rising
- @ Silverman Gallery
- Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising... View details »
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