Events on Saturday, May 17
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- Music: DJ
- Z-Trip
- @ Mighty
- Mashups are so 2001, right? Now that every Serato-toting DJ has figured out how to drop T-Pain a cappellas on top... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Green Velvet
- @ Temple
- Do house music and Christianity have something in common? For Green Velvet (Curtis Jones), they do; this DJ favors both the... View details »
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- Metro Area
- @ Vessel
- Having hosted super-eclectic Beats in Space host and DFA jock Tim Sweeney last month, Red Dot continues to spread the NYC... View details »
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- More Flavor: Party
- Return to Paradise
- @ Mezzanine
- You've danced to their songs at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and summer-camp socials galore — but now, they're live and onstage. Get... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Bassnectar
- @ The Fillmore
- Bassnectar's music contains a microcosm of Bay Area subcultures: from wax-poetic hip-hop beats and massive bass lines worthy of the playa's... View details »
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- Film
- Homoccult & Other Esoterotica
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Curatorial enfant terrible Daniel McKernan brings the magickal, sexually transgressive short films he screened at last year's MIX NYC festival to... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Blowfly
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- It's sex machine night at Bottom of the Hill. Blowfly — a funky, sensual superhero known for performing in nothing but... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Kills
- @ Slim's
- The Kills' Alison Mosshart is all about sizzle — though not necessarily sex. Reveling in her throaty, cigarette-stained croak, the heavy... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art: Photography
- 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 »
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- Birth of the Cool
- @ Oakland Museum of California
- Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That... 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 »
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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 »
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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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- 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 »
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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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- William T. Wiley
- @ Electric Works
- Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting... 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 »
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- Recession
- @ Queen's Nail Annex
- They say money makes the world go round — and although Maximo Gonzalez might agree, he's got his own cynical take... View details »
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- Art
- 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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- 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- Queenie Pie
- @ Oakland Metro
- Queenie Pie, jazz giant Duke Ellington's final large-scale work, receives the royal treatment from the Oakland Opera Theater. Ellington's muse was... View details »
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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 »
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- Mission Bazaar
- @ The Armory
- After more than 30 years of neglect and inactivity, the historic Armory building (now home to porn company Kink.com) is hosting... View details »
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- Improbable\Unlikely
- @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
- David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- 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 »
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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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- Portals
- @ Johansson Projects
- This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Protest in Paris 1968
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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- Film
- Flight of the Red Balloon
- @ Landmark Bridge Theater
- Chinese director Hsiao-hsien Hou's glorious response to the 1956 classic The Red Balloon commences with a long, nearly silent scene of... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- SF Oysterfest
- @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
- This year's Oysterfest pairs plenty of the famous aphrodisiac mollusk with bubbly, beer, and a pack of dedicated gluttons stuffing their... 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 »
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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 »
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- Dykes on Bikes®
- @ GLBT Historical Society
- Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride... 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 »
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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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- 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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- Gina Borg
- @ Jancar Jones Gallery
- Bay Area artist Gina Borg's small works on canvas and paper are a gratifying addition to Jancar Jones' snug new gallery... View details »
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- 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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- American Symbols
- @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
- Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations.... 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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- Uncharted
- @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery
- Like intrepid cartographers, the nine artists featured in this exhibit navigate land and space from many angles. Their interpretations range in... View details »
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- Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
- @ Jack Fischer Gallery
- Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened,... View details »
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- Film
- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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