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Douglas Gordon
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Tuesday Feb 19 (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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Tuesday Feb 19 (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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Tuesday Feb 19 (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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Persepolis
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Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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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Tim Lee
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Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
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Paul McCarthy
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Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's bizarre, shrewd provocations encompass... View details »
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An-My Lê
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Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
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Gilbert & George
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Tuesday Feb 19 @ de Young Museum
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Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
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Zhan Wang
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Tuesday Feb 19 (10:30–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery
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Coveted by Chinese intellectuals and nobles, scholar's rocks could once be found everywhere from university courtyards to private gardens. They existed as a minature example... View details »
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Jens Haaning
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Tuesday Feb 19 (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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Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
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Finders Keepers
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Tuesday Feb 19 (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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African Film Festival
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Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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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Tuesday Feb 19 (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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SF Indiefest
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Tuesday Feb 19 @ Various locations
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Unlike festivals that screen "independent" films featuring well-known directors and celebrity actors, Indiefest sticks to cinema from fresh international talent. This year, the festival celebrates... View details »
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James Gobel
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Tuesday Feb 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero
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Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and the often ruggedly masculine... View details »
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Emory Douglas
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Tuesday Feb 19 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling
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When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory Douglas' incendiary graphic-design work... View details »
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Structured Thoughts
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Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–6pm) @ Hang Annex
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Hang's latest show features pieces from four Bay Area artists whose painting, sculpture, and multimedia works encourage a tactile, visceral exploration of the natural world.... View details »
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Jordan Eagles
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Tuesday Feb 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
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Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood, which at first resemble... View details »
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Matt Furie
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Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery
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Matt Furie lets his freak flag fly in this collection of meticulous colored-pencil and ink drawings, evoking Marcel Dzama by way of Troma Entertainment's schlocky... View details »
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Drama and Desire
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Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum
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On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
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Leonora Carrington
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Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air, but also menace, and... View details »
