All events on Tuesday February 26
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- Music: Global
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Huun Huur Tu
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Tuesday Feb 26 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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Deeply spiritual, aesthetically stunning, and utterly unfamiliar, the Huun Huur Tu throat singers hail from Tuva, a region near the Siberia/Mongolia border. Separately issuing a... View details »
- Reading
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Samantha Power
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Tuesday Feb 26 (7:30pm) @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley
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Samantha Power takes some time off from advising Obama to discuss her upcoming book Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Casting a Glance
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Tuesday Feb 26 (7:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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Minimalist filmmaker James Benning finds an ideal (and inanimate) muse in Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970). Built on the shore of Utah's Great Salt... View details »
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- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Tuesday Feb 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 »
- Art
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Tim Lee
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Tuesday Feb 26 (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 »
- Art
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Paul McCarthy
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Tuesday Feb 26 (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 »
- Art
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An-My Lê
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Tuesday Feb 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 »
- Art
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Gilbert & George
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Tuesday Feb 26 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Friedlander
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Tuesday Feb 26 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
- Art
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Zhan Wang
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Tuesday Feb 26 (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 »
- Art
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Jens Haaning
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Tuesday Feb 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 »
- Art
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Finders Keepers
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Tuesday Feb 26 (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 »
- Film
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African Film Festival
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Tuesday Feb 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 »
- Art
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Chuck Arnett
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Tuesday Feb 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 »
- Film
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Terence Davies
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Tuesday Feb 26 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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British filmmaker Terence Davies' much-lauded films are known for their stylistic nostalgia and themes of emotional endurance. Inspired by his experiences growing up in working-class... View details »
- Art
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James Gobel
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Tuesday Feb 26 (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 »
- Art
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Emory Douglas
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Tuesday Feb 26 (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 26 (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 26 (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 »
- Art
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You ROYGBIV Me
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Tuesday Feb 26 @ Tartine Bakery
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Tartine Bakery is usually known for its pastry-mad crowds and the sweet smell of butter floating down 18th Street, but recently, under curator Brianna Toth,... View details »
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Matt Furie
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Tuesday Feb 26 (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 26 (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 26 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Endgame
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Tuesday Feb 26 @ Traveling Jewish Theater
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When Samuel Beckett wrote Endgame in 1957, audiences were more accustomed to stark, conceptual writing and avant-garde theatrics than today. The utterly bizarre one-act play... View details »
