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Paul Cesewski
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Friday May 23 (5–9pm) @ SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio
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In another era, Paul Cesewksi might have run off and joined the circus — the latter-day carny tinkers with metal and machine parts to create... View details »
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Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
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Friday May 23 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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YBCA kicks off its weekend-long season of the witch with the 1968 abbreviated version of Benjamin Christensen's 1922 documentary/horror classic. Mixing humor and gore, slideshow-style... View details »
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Rosin Coven
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Friday May 23 (9pm) @ Cafe du Nord
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Rosin Coven, the Bay Area's much beloved "pagan lounge" players, need little introduction. The classically trained instrumentalists attack strings and percussion with a blend of... View details »
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Mister Lonely
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Friday May 23 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Harmony Korine's much-anticipated directorial return finds the former enfant terrible trying a little tenderness. Korine has always been fascinated by bands of outsiders, particularly teenage... View details »
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Hopeless and Otherwise
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Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Southern Exposure
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With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of unrest in US history... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Friday May 23 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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Annie Leibovitz
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Friday May 23 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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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 »
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In Collaboration
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Friday May 23 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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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 »
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How I Learned to...
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Friday May 23 (noon–5pm) @ Intersection for the Arts
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It's a pretty safe bet that elementary schools won't soon be competing with downtown museums and banks for a top architect's blueprints, though it's hard... View details »
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The Question Is Known
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Friday May 23 (10am–5pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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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 »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Friday May 23 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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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 »
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2nd Skin
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Friday May 23 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium
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With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
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After the Revolution
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Friday May 23 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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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 »
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Inkie Whang
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Friday May 23 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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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 »
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Quarter Century
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Friday May 23 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored
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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 »
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Veronica Graham
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Friday May 23 (3–10pm) @ CELLspace
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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 »
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Paul Sietsema
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Friday May 23 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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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 »
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Gareth Moore
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Friday May 23 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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Saskia Leek
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Friday May 23 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
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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 »
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Gina Borg
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Friday May 23 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery
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Bay Area artist Gina Borg's small works on canvas and paper are a gratifying addition to Jancar Jones' snug new gallery space. Marks and shapes... View details »
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Portals
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Friday May 23 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
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This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife, Jen Stark carves stacks... View details »
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Lacey Jane Roberts
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Friday May 23 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery
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Little Tree Gallery has now been fortified, thanks to Bay Area artist Lacey Jane Roberts' handwoven barbed-wire fence. Even though every link of Roberts' formidable... View details »
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American Symbols
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Friday May 23 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
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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 »
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Uncharted
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Friday May 23 (6–8pm) @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery
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Like intrepid cartographers, the nine artists featured in this exhibit navigate land and space from many angles. Their interpretations range in style and media, from... View details »
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Suzanne Husky
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Friday May 23 (7–10pm) @ Triple Base
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Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and environmental angst, aren't always... View details »
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Sarah Wagner
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Friday May 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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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 »
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Adam5100
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Saturday May 24 (6–10pm) @ Rowan Morrison
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The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his painting and printmaking at... View details »
- Film
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Redbelt
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Friday May 23 @ Various locations
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Redbelt, David Mamet's latest, is an absorbing foray into the world of mixed martial arts. An unconventional fight film, Redbelt centers around the story of... View details »
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The Dark Crystal
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Friday May 23 (midnight) @ Landmark Clay Theatre
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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 two bipolar races when... View details »
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William T. Wiley
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Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works
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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 »
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Christian Marclay
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Friday May 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery
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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 »
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Feudal Echo
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Friday May 23 (noon–8pm) @ Park Life
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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 »
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Improbable\Unlikely
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Friday May 23 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
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David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely Library, shelves of books... View details »
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Recession
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Friday May 23 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex
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They say money makes the world go round — and although Maximo Gonzalez might agree, he's got his own cynical take on the spiraling global... View details »
