Events on Wednesday, May 21
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- Reading
- Bushra Rehman and Jeff Chang
- @ Kearny Street Workshop
- Now in its fifth year, the Intergenerational Writers Lab is an annual intensive workshop led by a group of the Bay... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- The Presets
- @ Mezzanine
- The Sydney-based Presets lug their drums and keyboards halfway around the world to show off the follow-up to their 2005 electro-dance... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Brothers Unconnected
- @ Slim's
- After 27 years of melting minds with their bold mix of hardcore, psychedelia, and ethnomusicology, Sun City Girls came to a... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- M.I.A.
- @ Concourse at SF Design Center
- After the rainbow-colored, electro-bailé blast of Arular, M.I.A. could have easily taken her worldly flow to the bank, throwing her hat... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- El-P
- @ 1015
- Fresh off the Def Jux release of his tech-rap album Maths + English, UK grime mastermind Dizzee Rascal brings his introspective... View details »
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- Film
- Sebastiane and In the Shadow of the Sun
- @ Artists' Television Access
- "How did Saint Sebastian die? / Arrows pierced his throat and thigh / which only knew, before that time / the... View details »
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- Willy Vlautin and Paul Brainard
- @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
- Film and music have a long history together. Rarely, though, do musicians score books, as Willy Vlautin has done for his... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- M83
- @ Great American Music Hall
- When France's M83 first washed up on these shores with 2003's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, it was a... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Destroyer
- @ The Independent
- As if universal healthcare isn't enough, Vancouver's Dan Bejar strengthens the case for our red, white, and maple neighbors to the... View details »
Ongoing Events
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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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- Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
- @ John Berggruen Gallery
- Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Adam5100
- @ Rowan Morrison
- The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Protest in Paris 1968
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
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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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- More Flavor: Festival
- SF International Arts Festival
- @ Various locations
- The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at... View details »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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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