All events on Thursday October 02
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Koralie
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Thursday Oct 2 (7–9:30pm) @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
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French street artist Koralie started out wheat-pasting the walls of Toulouse with her signature kimono-clad geishas and has since moved on to decorate the back... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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DocFest
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Thursday Oct 2 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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DocFest is still a few weeks away, but the YBCA's sneak preview of the documentary celebration provides a glimpse of things to come. The sampler... View details »
- Film: Festival
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Dead Channels
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Thursday Oct 2 @ Roxie New College Film Center
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The curators of Dead Channels never fail to fully exploit — or graphically illustrate — the many senses of the phrase "gut-wrenching." From the genuinely... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Thursday Oct 2 (11am–7pm) @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Tour
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Ground Scores
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Thursday Oct 2 @ Various locations
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Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
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Bay Area Now 5
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Thursday Oct 2 (noon–8pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
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Banned and Recovered
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Thursday Oct 2 (10am–5pm) @ San Francisco Center for the Book
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In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of schools, libraries, and the... View details »
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Room for Thought
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Thursday Oct 2 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
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The Wizard of Oz
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Thursday Oct 2 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis of this tightly-packed group... View details »
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73 Funshine
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Thursday Oct 2 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works
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Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially music, his pieces bounce... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Rock 'n' Roll
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Thursday Oct 2 @ American Conservatory Theater
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Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge, England and Prague. Incorporating... View details »
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Duality of Humanity
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Thursday Oct 2 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery
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Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama posters flooded city walls and the public consciousness earlier this year with a burst of HOPE. In this... View details »
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New Heaven
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Thursday Oct 2 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop
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Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf Shop, then, is a... View details »
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Frank Lobdell
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Thursday Oct 2 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
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During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank Lobdell fought on the... View details »
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Art of Democracy
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Thursday Oct 2 (11am–5pm) @ Meridian Gallery
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Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated exhibitions have cropped up... View details »
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Gwenaël Rattke
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Thursday Oct 2 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
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Deft with scissors, collage artist Gwenaël Rattke has been cutting things up since his teen years in Berlin, where he got his start fashioning punk... View details »
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Rachel Kaye
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Thursday Oct 2 (11am–10pm) @ Adobe Bookshop
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In a world seemingly fueled by of-the-moment celebrity gossip, it's easy to forget that the public's fascination with the wealthy is as old as the... View details »
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Spencer Sweeney
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Thursday Oct 2 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
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After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York painter has many more... View details »
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Welcome All
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Thursday Oct 2 (noon–7pm) @ Needles & Pens
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From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an alternative American landscape in... View details »
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buZ blurr
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Thursday Oct 2 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling
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Trains may not have the same hold on the popular imagination as they once did, but a recent flurry of films and books (Who is... View details »
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It's Alright
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Thursday Oct 2 (noon–7pm) @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
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Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a whimsical effect that relies... View details »
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Richard T. Walker
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Thursday Oct 2 (noon–6pm) @ David Cunningham Projects
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The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition follows in this tradition.... View details »
