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- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Virgins
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Friday June 20 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
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If Virgins frontman Donald Cumming looks familiar, it may be because you've seen his bits 'n pieces gracing the walls of the Whitney, as part... View details »
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RTX
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Friday June 20 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
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Jennifer Herrema has a special place in her heart for San Francisco. It's the city where her old band, Royal Trux, combined her own sneering... View details »
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Earth
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Friday June 20 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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Drone druids Boris and Sunn O))) reined in their feedback on the 2006 collaboration, "The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)," to clear the way for Sweet... View details »
- Film: Shorts
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Videos by Guy Ben-Ner
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Friday June 20 (8pm) @ Artists' Television Access
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ATA continues its Global Undergrounds series with the short works of New York-by-way-of-Israel videosmith Guy Ben-Ner. A skilled purveyor of the type of guerrilla filmmaking... View details »
- Music: Global
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Thievery Corporation
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Friday June 20 (8pm) @ Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
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International electronic wonder duo Thievery Corporation hit the Greek Theatre with flair, offering some of the most consistently stylish beats, accompanied by a host of... View details »
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The Beast in Me
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Friday June 20 (11am–5pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery
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While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain of being a man,"... View details »
- Film
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Mother of Tears
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Friday June 20 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's long-awaited Mother of Tears completes the "Three Mothers" trilogy he started three decades ago with Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980).... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (9:30am–8:45pm) @ 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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Friday June 20 (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 June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (10am–5:45pm) @ 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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Paul Sietsema
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Friday June 20 (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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Portals
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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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William T. Wiley
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Friday June 20 (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 June 20 (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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Leigh Wells
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Friday June 20 (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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Improbable\Unlikely
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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 @ 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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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 »
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We Remember the Sun
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Friday June 20 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with... View details »
