All events on Wednesday June 18
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Salman Rushdie
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Wednesday June 18 (8pm) @ Herbst Theater
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The Enchantress of Florence shows that Salman Rushdie's tabloid popularity hasn't hurt his literary prowess. The Indian-born author spent nearly a decade in hiding due... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Galactic Core
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Wednesday June 18 (9pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
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Portland's Galactic Core headline a bill of molten post-psychedelia at the Hemlock. The band, born of a single improvised recording session, has a full-throttle sound... View details »
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Socket
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Wednesday June 18 (7 & 9:15pm) @ Hypnodrome
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Dead Channels' hump-day film series begins with a jolt this summer. Sean Abely's smart and sexy thriller, Socket, puts a queer twist on Cronenbergian body... View details »
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Andy Warhol's Flesh and Blow Job
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Wednesday June 18 (8pm) @ Artists' Television Access
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Of the 60-plus films Warhol made between 1963 and 1968, none is more frustrating or satisfying than Blow Job, probably because the whole thing... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Skream
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Wednesday June 18 (9pm) @ Mighty
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Tonight, Skream returns to SF to rattle some more chestplates. The bwoy from Croydon has introduced elements of house, jazz, and electro to dubstep's huge... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Wednesday June 18 (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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Dale Chihuly
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Wednesday June 18 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum
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Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Wednesday June 18 (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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Wednesday June 18 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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After the Revolution
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Wednesday June 18 (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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Quarter Century
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Wednesday June 18 (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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The Reggae Scrapbook
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Wednesday June 18 (noon–9pm) @ Babylon Falling
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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 »
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Karla Wozniak
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Wednesday June 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery
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Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly every roadside in America.... View details »
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Sarah Wagner
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Wednesday June 18 (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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Wednesday June 18 (11am–6pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Trevor Paglen
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Wednesday June 18 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
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William T. Wiley
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Wednesday June 18 (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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Wednesday June 18 (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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Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
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Wednesday June 18 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery
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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 »
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Leigh Wells
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Wednesday June 18 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16
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Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
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365
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Wednesday June 18 @ 111 Minna Gallery
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... m>365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual experience is only heightened... View details »
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Hopeless and Otherwise
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Wednesday June 18 (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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Soft Underbelly Recognition
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Wednesday June 18 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery
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In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition — a group exhibition that... View details »
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Alicia McCarthy
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Wednesday June 18 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
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Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this motley collection of her... View details »
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A Complicated Dominion
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Wednesday June 18 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
- Film
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Times and Winds
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Wednesday June 18 (11:15am, 1:40pm, 4:15pm, 7:15pm & 10pm) @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
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While local cinephiles were still circling calendar dates in anticipation of this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, the sponsoring SF Film Society announced a... View details »
