All events on Friday June 27
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Barbara Oakley
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Friday June 27 (6pm) @ World Affairs Center
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Could the horrendous acts perpetuated by Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin be traced back to something as fundamental as variations in brain functioning? Barbara Oakely... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Adam Stephens
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Friday June 27 (9:30pm) @ Hemlock Tavern
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Less than a week after wrapping up some big shows in Spain with his bandmate Tyson Vogel, Adam Stephens of Two Gallants is back in... View details »
- Film
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The Warriors
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Friday June 27 (7:15 & 9:20pm) @ Red Vic
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This 1979 classic of urban cool and cartoon violence stars a street gang with true class. The posse takes on a rough 'n tumble (and... View details »
- Art: Festival
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MOVE>SOUND
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Friday June 27 @ Various locations
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Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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80/08
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Friday June 27 (8pm) @ School of the Arts Theatre
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Tatsumi Hijikata, the Japanese choreographer considered to be the founder of butoh, would have been 80 this year (Hijikata passed away in 1986). Emerging in... View details »
- Film
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Brick Lane
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Friday June 27 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
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With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
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Savage Grace
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Friday June 27 @ Landmark Embarcadero
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Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
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Kiki
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Friday June 27 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at an interesting time. Founded... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Friday June 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
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2nd Skin
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Friday June 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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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Portals
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Friday June 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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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William T. Wiley
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Friday June 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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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INsects INsectos
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Friday June 27 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored
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From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new sculpture group show at... View details »
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Improbable\Unlikely
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Friday June 27 (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 27 @ 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 27 (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 27 (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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Women Impressionists
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Friday June 27 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
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Soft Underbelly Recognition
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Friday June 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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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The Beast in Me
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Friday June 27 (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 »
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We Remember the Sun
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Friday June 27 (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 »
