Events on Thursday, April 17
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- Film
- Metropolis
- @ Red Vic
- While the gorgeous dystopia of Fritz Lang's classic Metropolis practically screams Weimar, the film retains an unsettling quality of being just... View details »
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- Reading: Poetry
- Kevin Killian w/ Jocelyn Saidenberg and George Albon
- @ Books Inc. in the Castro
- Of San Francisco's many riches, the town's indigenous poets may be its most valuable. Tonight's lineup, organized in honor of National... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Ghostland Observatory
- @ Mezzanine
- Austin's Ghostland Observatory have been gathering steam since 2005, when Aaron Behrens first demonstrated his commanding charisma and impressive vocal range... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Taste 2008
- @ Root Division
- Society's relationship with food is fraught with controversy and emotion — what we eat can just as easily be an aphrodisiac... View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- David Rothkopf
- @ World Affairs Center
- In his new book Superclass, David Rothkopf makes a compelling argument: international business leaders — much more than elected politicians —... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Rilo Kiley
- @ SF Concourse and Exhibition Center
- Rilo Kiley have had to clean themselves up to appeal to a wider audience. Last year's Under the Blacklight transported the... View details »
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- Film
- Big Time
- @ Rafael Film Center
- Tom Waits fans are a devoted lot, so it's a good bet this one-off screening of the gravel-voiced singer's 1988 musical... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art
- Jeremy Blake
- @ Catharine Clark Gallery
- Through haunting, polychromatic compositions, the late Jeremy Blake's digital-video works sought to unify the realms of painting and film. When Blake... View details »
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- Feral
- @ The Luggage Store
- In Feral, Monica Canilao and Swoon build a wild, creative world out of layers of urban flotsam and jetsam, fabric scraps,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Whimsy
- @ RayKo Photo Center
- Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Art & Artifice
- @ Museum of Performance & Design
- Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the... View details »
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- Tim Lee
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- 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... View details »
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- Enrique Chagoya
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Point Break LIVE!
- @ Xenodrome
- Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Robert Adler
- @ Hyde Street Gallery
- Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Protest in Paris 1968
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
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- Art
- Propogations
- @ Johansson Projects
- Paul Hayes' folded-paper-and-wire sculpture Cultivated Momentum hangs from Johansson Projects' ceiling like a recycled-kelp forest, its black squiggles calling fish to... View details »
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- Paul Sietsema
- @ SFMOMA
- Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles... View details »
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- Art
- Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
- @ Sculpturesite Gallery
- One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
- @ Jancar Jones Gallery
- Jancar Jones Gallery consecrates its new space with a group exhibition showcasing works from Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, and Chadwick Rantanen.... View details »
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- Neu Wave Feminism
- @ Femina Potens Gallery
- Radical, queer-friendly gallery Femina Potens presents Neu Wave Feminism, a bold collection of subversive works that spotlights feminism's shifting borders. The... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- After the Revolution
- @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Friedlander
- @ SFMOMA
- Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape.... View details »
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- Gilbert & George
- @ de Young Museum
- Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work... View details »
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- Deric Carner
- @ Ping Pong Gallery
- Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments.... View details »
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- Art
- In Collaboration
- @ SFMOMA
- San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media... View details »
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- Victor Cartagena
- @ Galería de la Raza
- Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration,... View details »
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- Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough
- @ Silverman Gallery
- Taking its title from a Black Sabbath tune, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough's solo show Symptom of the Universe taps Ozzy's evil vibes... View details »
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- Drama and Desire
- @ Asian Art Museum
- On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of... View details »
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- The Way That We Rhyme
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Annie Leibovitz
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's... View details »
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- Science Fair
- @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
- Rock Paper Scissors' Science Fair hosts much stranger exhibits than those found in elementary schools' baking-soda-and-vinegar volcano competitions. Guest curator Andrew... View details »
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- An-My Lê
- @ SFMOMA
- An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- The Fabric of Cultures
- @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
- This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture —... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Stravinsky's Firebird
- @ The Crucible
- Departing from the classical mode of ballet, the artists, dancers, and musicians at the Crucible pay modern homage to Igor Stravinsky's... View details »
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- Chuck Arnett
- @ GLBT Historical Society
- June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
- @ Hosfelt Gallery
- Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox... View details »
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