Events on Tuesday, December 2
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Blitzen Trapper
- @ The Independent
- Portland's Blitzen Trapper stick closer to countrified indie rock this time around, drawing some obvious influence from Wilco on their latest... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Sea and Cake
- @ Great American Music Hall
- Built from the wreckage of the late, great Shrimp Boat, arty popsters the Sea and Cake are the frothy confection their... View details »
- Flavorpill 50
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- Film: Animation
- Martha Colburn
- @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Martha Colburn's ability to successfully comment on the complexities, anomalies, and contradictions of our society stems from her own anxiety, outsider... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Dame Edna Everage
- @ Post Street Theatre
- Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With... View details »
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- Art
- Martin Puryear
- @ SFMOMA
- SFMOMA's retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear quickly dispenses with woodworking's crafty, small-scale reputation. Monumental in size, Puryear's abstract... View details »
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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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OngoingFree
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- Art: Photography
- Brought to Light
- @ SFMOMA
- SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... View details »
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- The Totoro Forest Project
- @ Cartoon Art Museum
- If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global... View details »
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- Art
- The Art of Participation
- @ SFMOMA
- While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
- August Wilson's series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, is the most ambitious and critically successful attempt ever to stage the... View details »
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- Art
- Off the Edge
- @ Scott Richards Contemporary Art
- Ever since Robert Rauschenberg challenged the sovereignty of the second dimension in painting by introducing foreign objects into the equation, painters... View details »
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- Stolen Land
- @ Needles & Pens
- Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- The Wizard of Oz
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis... View details »
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- Theresa Ganz
- @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
- As pundits draw parallels between Obama and Lincoln on the evening news, everyone else is brushing up on their 19th-century history,... View details »
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- Diem Chau
- @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
- With an exacting delicacy, Vietnamese-born artist Diem Chau uses thread, fabric, and porcelain to sculpt fleeting glimpses of the human figure.... View details »
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- As Above So Below
- @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
- In a devastating display of nature's fury, Chile's Chaitén volcano erupted last May, spewing plumes of roiling ash that generated dense... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- NextAid World AIDS Day Benefits
- @ Various locations
- LA-based nonprofit NextAid is a progressive, hands-on charity that proves, among other things, that ravers are compassionate citizens of the world.... View details »
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Ongoing
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Yves Saint Laurent
- @ de Young Museum
- After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... View details »
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- Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth... View details »
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- Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
- @ SFMOMA
- The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Kate Gilmore
- @ Catharine Clark Gallery
- Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body... View details »
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- Milk
- @ The Castro Theatre
- Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... View details »
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