Events on Wednesday, May 14
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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 » View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- COLORS Past and Present
- @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura
- In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- The Question Is Known
- @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
- Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Quarter Century
- @ Creativity Explored
- Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th... View details » View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 2nd Skin
- @ Exploratorium
- With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing.... View details » View details »
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- Sarah Wagner
- @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement... View details » View details »
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- Christian Marclay
- @ Fraenkel Gallery
- Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in... View details » View details »
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- Inkie Whang
- @ Frey Norris Gallery
- Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Ryan McGinley
- @ Ratio 3
- Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like... View details » View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Protest in Paris 1968
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
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Forty years after
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- Saskia Leek
- @ Jack Hanley Gallery
- Embracing the same kind of provocative ambiguity and loose brushwork found in Luc Tuymans' paintings, New Zealand native Saskia Leek structures... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Gareth Moore
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Vancouver artist Gareth Moore takes hold of the reins at the Wattis, presenting the ninth solo exhibition in the gallery's ongoing... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Self-Storage
- @ Self Storage
- Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic... View details » View details »
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- How I Learned to...
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- It's a pretty safe bet that elementary schools won't soon be competing with downtown museums and banks for a top architect's... View details » View details »
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- The Reggae Scrapbook
- @ Babylon Falling
- The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Feudal Echo
- @ Park Life
- Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Lacey Jane Roberts
- @ Little Tree Gallery
- Little Tree Gallery has now been fortified, thanks to Bay Area artist Lacey Jane Roberts' handwoven barbed-wire fence. Even though every... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Veronica Graham
- @ CELLspace
- Composed of more than 2000 hand-printed cloth swatches, Veronica Graham's sprawling installation Bonus Map takes over CELLspace's wall like cartographic kudzu.... View details » View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- Saving Lives, Creating Hope
- @ World Affairs Center
- AIDS is truly a worldwide epidemic — and many of the countries hardest hit by the disease are often struggling just... View details » View details »
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- Reading
- Rick Perlstein
- @ Cody's Books
- With mainstream cultural criticism increasingly dominated by ideologues, Richard Perlstein is something of a rarity: an intelligent, self-professed progressive with an... View details » View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Signal
- @ San Francisco Art Institute - Main Campus
- Compared to the Raster-Noton label's austere output, most self-described "minimal" techno sounds positively maximal. The laptop-generated oscillator tones and minute, ice-cracking... View details » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- The Rosenbach Company
- @ Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
- The Rosenbach brothers were some of the most obsessively successful book collectors of the 20th century. In the skilled hands of... View details » View details »
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- Film
- Contempt
- @ The Castro Theatre
- Jean-Luc Godard's 45-year-old masterpiece Contempt is still a conundrum. Coming off a run of shoestring gems, the French New Wave icon... View details » View details »
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- Redbelt
- @ Various locations
- Redbelt, David Mamet's latest, is an absorbing foray into the world of mixed martial arts. An unconventional fight film, Redbelt centers... View details » View details »
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- The Memory Thief
- @ Red Vic
- The identity of every modern Jew is in some way built upon the memory of the Holocaust. As the generation of... View details » View details »
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- Graduation
- @ Landmark Opera Plaza
- Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank... View details » View details »
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- The Rape of the Sabine Women
- @ SFMOMA
- Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical... View details » View details »
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- Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
- @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
- Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the... View details » 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 » View details »
