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Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Tuesday May 20 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
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Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets quintessentially American scenes. Brown... View details »
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell

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Tim Lee
Tuesday May 20 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
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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 »
Tim Lee
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Annie Leibovitz
Tuesday May 20 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
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 »
Annie Leibovitz
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In Collaboration
Tuesday May 20 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
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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 »
In Collaboration
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Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Tuesday May 20 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery More times »
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One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works constructed from repurposed materials.... View details »
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
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The Question Is Known
Tuesday May 20 (10am–5pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts More times »
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Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the work of mixed-media painter... View details »
The Question Is Known
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The Rape of the Sabine Women
Tuesday May 20 @ SFMOMA More times »
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical myth, art history, and... View details »
The Rape of the Sabine Women
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The Way That We Rhyme
Tuesday May 20 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
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 »
The Way That We Rhyme
Art: Photography
After the Revolution
Tuesday May 20 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has become the privileged site... View details »
After the Revolution
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Inkie Whang
Tuesday May 20 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
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Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the dozen paintings on display... View details »
Inkie Whang
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Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Tuesday May 20 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design More times »
Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the 1950s with the verve... View details »
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
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Quarter Century
Tuesday May 20 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
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Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th year, the nonprofit studio... View details »
Quarter Century
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The Reggae Scrapbook
Tuesday May 20 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
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The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and archives, award-winning photographer Peter... View details »
The Reggae Scrapbook
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Veronica Graham
Tuesday May 20 (3–10pm) @ CELLspace More times »
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Composed of more than 2000 hand-printed cloth swatches, Veronica Graham's sprawling installation Bonus Map takes over CELLspace's wall like cartographic kudzu. Each individual tile evokes... View details »
Veronica Graham
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Paul Sietsema
Tuesday May 20 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
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 »
Paul Sietsema
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Gareth Moore
Tuesday May 20 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
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Vancouver artist Gareth Moore takes hold of the reins at the Wattis, presenting the ninth solo exhibition in the gallery's ongoing Passengers series. Moore strives... View details »
Gareth Moore
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Saskia Leek
Tuesday May 20 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
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Embracing the same kind of provocative ambiguity and loose brushwork found in Luc Tuymans' paintings, New Zealand native Saskia Leek structures her imagery around pastel... View details »
Saskia Leek
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American Symbols
Tuesday May 20 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
American Symbols
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Sarah Wagner
Tuesday May 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery More times »
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Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement floors and plaster walls,... View details »
Sarah Wagner
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William T. Wiley
Tuesday May 20 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
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Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting a 1964 game called... View details »
William T. Wiley
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Christian Marclay
Tuesday May 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery More times »
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Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in used record shops. He's... View details »
Christian Marclay
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Feudal Echo
Tuesday May 20 (noon–8pm) @ Park Life More times »
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Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days, but painters Alex Lukas... View details »
Feudal Echo
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Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Tuesday May 20 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
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Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened, skewed architecture, Candy Garden... View details »
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers