All events on Thursday June 19
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Dodos
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Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ The Independent
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Local songwriter Meric Long first hooked up with rapid-fire drummer Logan Kroeber in 2006 for the excellent self-released CD Beware of the Maniacs,... View details »
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Wholphin 6
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Thursday June 19 (7:30pm) @ Mezzanine
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Wholphin, the quarterly DVD magazine published by McSweeney's, brings together enigmatic shorts that are by turns provocative, comical, and bizarre — and all exquisite in... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Thursday June 19 (11am–7pm) @ 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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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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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Frida Kahlo
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Thursday June 19 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
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The Reggae Scrapbook
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Thursday June 19 (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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Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Thursday June 19 (6:30pm) @ SFMOMA
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As a New German Cinema progenitor obsessed with stylish reconstructions of his country's troubled 20th-century history, R.W. Fassbinder had a natural interest in Alfred Döblin's... View details »
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Paul Sietsema
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Thursday June 19 (11am–8:45pm) @ 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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Portals
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Thursday June 19 (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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Karla Wozniak
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Thursday June 19 (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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American Symbols
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Thursday June 19 (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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Suzanne Husky
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Thursday June 19 (noon–5pm) @ 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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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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 »
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Trevor Paglen
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Thursday June 19 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley
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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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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Film
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Bitter Pills
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Thursday June 19 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Michael Haneke's 2007 English-language remake of his notorious Funny Games (1997) hit US theaters with the unexpected wallop of a hard slap in the face.... View details »
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Improbable\Unlikely
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Thursday June 19 (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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365
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Thursday June 19 @ 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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Thursday June 19 (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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Sean Talley
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Thursday June 19 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery
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Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes commingle on a flat,... View details »
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Soft Underbelly Recognition
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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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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Thursday June 19 (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 »
