Free on Friday February 29
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Pictures of Me
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Friday Feb 29 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex
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Elliott Smith's threadbare songs, personal melancholy, and early death cast a long shadow over his photographic record. In drizzly Portland portraits and long-faced close-ups, the... View details »
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The Great Exhibition
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Friday Feb 29 (6–10pm) @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
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For artists having a tough time getting their work shown, the second iteration of Bring Your Own Art (Show) is a good chance for exposure.... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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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' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–6pm) @ 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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Friday Feb 29 (11am–6pm) @ 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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Zhan Wang
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Friday Feb 29 (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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Friday Feb 29 (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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Chuck Arnett
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Friday Feb 29 (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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James Gobel
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Friday Feb 29 (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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Friday Feb 29 (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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Jordan Kantor
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Friday Feb 29 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of three stacked skulls serves... View details »
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Jordan Eagles
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Friday Feb 29 (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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You ROYGBIV Me
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Friday Feb 29 @ 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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Friday Feb 29 (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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Leonora Carrington
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Friday Feb 29 (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 »
