Events on Thursday, May 22
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Cave Singers
- @ The Independent
- The Cave Singers infuse their campfire songs with whiskey-soaked Americana and a gutter-punk sneer. It's a nice change of pace... View details »
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- Mates of State
- @ Slim's
- Once an ethos, then a (vaguely defined) genre, now a commercial force, "indie rock" has become infinitely fragmented and grossly commodified... View details »
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- The Radical Jack London
- @ City Lights
- Jonah Raskin discusses Jack London's revolutionary writings at this City Lights event. Though London is best remembered for his wilderness tales,... View details »
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- Foals
- @ 330 Ritch
- After landing on the face of that hoary UK hype-beast, NME, and wowing a few crowds here 'round SXSW-time, London-based Foals... View details »
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- Will Oldham and David Maisel
- @ Headlands Center for the Arts
- Headlands' current artists-in-residence are disparate interpreters of the American Gothic aesthetic. Under his various monikers, troubadour Will Oldham uses American vernacular... 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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- 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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- Mister Lonely
- @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
- Harmony Korine's much-anticipated directorial return finds the former enfant terrible trying a little tenderness. Korine has always been fascinated by bands... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Dalai Lama Renaissance
- @ Roxie Theater
- Beloved throughout the world as a symbol of enlightenment and peace, the Dalai Lama has achieved significant acclaim as a world... 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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- 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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- Film
- If...
- @ SFMOMA
- If… channels the anarchic current of 1968 with its bold switches between color and black-and-white, pillorying of authority, and violent climax.... View details »
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- 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: Exhibition
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The Dark Crystal
- @ Landmark Clay Theatre
- The Dark Crystal's characters aren't your run-of-the-mill Muppets. They come from the planet Thra, whose dominant race, the UrSkeks, split into... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Suzanne Husky
- @ Triple Base
- Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and... View details »
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