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- Reading: Poetry
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W.S. Merwin
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Tuesday Apr 15 (12:30pm) @ 111 Minna Gallery
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American poet W.S. Merwin got off to an auspicious start when W.H. Auden selected his first collection, A Mask for Janus, for the Yale Younger... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Stars of the Lid
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Tuesday Apr 15 (8pm) @ The Independent
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It's a good thing that the Independent has partial seating for tonight's Stars of the Lid show, since both members of the ambient instrumental duo... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Cat Power
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Tuesday Apr 15 (8pm) @ The Warfield
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Chan Marshall regularly slips bits of other tunes into her own work — turning the chorus of Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" into a... View details »
- Reading: Poetry
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Jack Hirschman
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Tuesday Apr 15 (7:30pm) @ Moe's Books
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Only hours after Mayor Gavin Newsom dubbed Jack Hirschman San Francisco's poet laureate in 2006, the longtime North Beach bard became enmeshed in a demonstration... View details »
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- Art
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Tim Lee
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Tuesday Apr 15 (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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An-My Lê
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Tuesday Apr 15 (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 Apr 15 @ 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 Apr 15 (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 »
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Chuck Arnett
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Tuesday Apr 15 (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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Annie Leibovitz
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Tuesday Apr 15 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
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In Collaboration
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Tuesday Apr 15 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
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Drama and Desire
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Tuesday Apr 15 (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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Victor Cartagena
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Tuesday Apr 15 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza
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Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
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Jeremy Blake
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Tuesday Apr 15 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery
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Through haunting, polychromatic compositions, the late Jeremy Blake's digital-video works sought to unify the realms of painting and film. When Blake rose to fame nearly... View details »
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Deric Carner
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Tuesday Apr 15 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
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Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments. Double Heading is full... View details »
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Whimsy
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Tuesday Apr 15 (10am–10pm) @ RayKo Photo Center
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Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous. The photos share a... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Heinz Emigholz
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Tuesday Apr 15 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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German filmmaker Heinz Emigholz casts his cinematic eye on the wonders of visionary architecture. Each of his documentaries shown tonight profiles a single architect, but... View details »
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At the Movies
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Tuesday Apr 15 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot
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It's not often that Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is spoken of in the same breath as Akira Kurosawa's Rashômon, but for the... View details »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Tuesday Apr 15 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
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Science Fair
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Tuesday Apr 15 (noon–7pm) @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
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Rock Paper Scissors' Science Fair hosts much stranger exhibits than those found in elementary schools' baking-soda-and-vinegar volcano competitions. Guest curator Andrew Thompson has compiled creative... View details »
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Paul Sietsema
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Tuesday Apr 15 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
