All events on Friday February 08
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Love on Wheels
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Friday Feb 8 (6–10pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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The SF Bike Coalition's annual dating game shifts venues this year, but continues to pose quintessentially San Francisco questions: can a fixie-rider find true love... View details »
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Emory Douglas
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Friday Feb 8 (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 »
- Music: DJ
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Tormenta Tropical
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Friday Feb 8 (10pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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The heavy rains of the past week have nothing on the steamy tempest brewing at the Rickshaw Stop, courtesy of the Tormenta Tropical boys. Now... View details »
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Bringin' On the Heartbreak
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Friday Feb 8 (7:30pm) @ The Castro Theatre
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Love hurts in this triple dose of Reagan-era classics. First up is Lucas, with a pre-Lost Boys Corey Haim giving a genuinely heart-wrenching performance as... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Black Lips
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Friday Feb 8 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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The Black Lips' live shows have become infamous for homoerotic antics, expelled bodily fluids, and shenanigans involving flammable materials. The Atlanta garage-punk foursome's music, on... View details »
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Friday Feb 8 (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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Douglas Gordon
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Friday Feb 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (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 »
- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Friday Feb 8 @ 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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Friday Feb 8 (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 8 (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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An-My Lê
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Friday Feb 8 (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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Jens Haaning
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Friday Feb 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 (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 »
- Film
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Raising Caine
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Friday Feb 8 (6:30pm) @ Mechanic's Institute Library
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With his affable good looks and distinctive cockney accent, Michael Caine has gone from being a '60s pop icon to a highly seasoned actor. Nominated... View details »
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Finders Keepers
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Friday Feb 8 (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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Friday Feb 8 @ 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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Friday Feb 8 (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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Conduits of Labor
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Friday Feb 8 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex
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In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean hausfrau in the digital... View details »
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Caroline Hwang
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Friday Feb 8 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot
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Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple, graphic figures — clad... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
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SF Indiefest
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Friday Feb 8 @ 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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Blackout
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Friday Feb 8 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division
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Anyone who's gone camping or spelunking knows that our senses become heightened in pitch-black darkness. In Root Division's Blackout exhibition, more than a dozen resident... View details »
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Enter the Center
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Friday Feb 8 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
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For the past couple of years, local artists Frank Lyon and David Wilson have played music together as Ship. Under the umbrella of Ribbons Publications,... View details »
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Jordan Kantor
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Friday Feb 8 (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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Structured Thoughts
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Friday Feb 8 (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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Bad Moon Rising
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Friday Feb 8 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery
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Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising continues the sentiment that... View details »
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Jordan Eagles
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Friday Feb 8 (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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Leonora Carrington
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Friday Feb 8 (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 »
