Events on Friday, June 27
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Adam Stephens
- @ Hemlock Tavern
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- Reading
- Barbara Oakley
- @ World Affairs Center
- Could the horrendous acts perpetuated by Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin be traced back to something as fundamental as variations in... View details »
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- B.A.D. Mud Wrestling
- @ CELLspace
- It turns out those quad-skating fiends in the Bay Area Derby Girls aren't just fearsome roller chicks — they've also got... View details »
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- Hopeless and Otherwise
- @ Southern Exposure
- With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of... View details »
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- The Warriors
- @ Red Vic
- This 1979 classic of urban cool and cartoon violence stars a street gang with true class. The posse takes on a... View details »
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- ArtSpan: 30 Under 30
- @ Varnish Fine Art
- Bay Area Now 5 doesn't hit the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts until July, but ArtSpan has the jump on... View details »
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- Women Impressionists
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
- @ SF Camerawork
- Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean... View details »
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- The Beast in Me
- @ Ping Pong Gallery
- While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain... View details »
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- Karla Wozniak
- @ Gregory Lind Gallery
- Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly... View details »
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- Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
- @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
- Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- The Reggae Scrapbook
- @ Babylon Falling
- The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- New American Fables
- @ Robert Koch Gallery
- Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Encounters at the End of the World
- @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
- In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)... View details »
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- Sean Talley
- @ Jancar Jones Gallery
- Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes... View details »
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- Tim Lee
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- 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... View details »
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- Frida Kahlo
- @ SFMOMA
- The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- @ American Conservatory Theater
- Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of... View details »
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- INsects INsectos
- @ Creativity Explored
- From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 80/08
- @ School of the Arts Theatre
- Tatsumi Hijikata, the Japanese choreographer considered to be the founder of butoh, would have been 80 this year (Hijikata passed away... View details »
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- Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
- @ John Berggruen Gallery
- Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets... View details »
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- Improbable\Unlikely
- @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
- David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely... View details »
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- Alicia McCarthy
- @ Jack Hanley Gallery
- Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this... View details »
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- We Remember the Sun
- @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
- Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- After the Revolution
- @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Art & Artifice
- @ Museum of Performance & Design
- Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the... View details »
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- Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
- @ Jack Fischer Gallery
- Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened,... View details »
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- 365
- @ 111 Minna Gallery
- 365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual... View details »
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- Suzanne Husky
- @ Triple Base
- Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and... View details »
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- A Complicated Dominion
- @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Superstition Obstacle Course
- @ Exploratorium
- Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack... View details »
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- Art: Festival
- MOVE>SOUND
- @ Various locations
- Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco.... View details »
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- American Symbols
- @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
- Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations.... View details »
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- William T. Wiley
- @ Electric Works
- Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting... View details »
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- Savage Grace
- @ Landmark Embarcadero
- Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life... View details »
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- Dale Chihuly
- @ de Young Museum
- Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Dykes on Bikes®
- @ GLBT Historical Society
- Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Tammy Rae Carland
- @ Silverman Gallery
- It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann... View details »
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- Leigh Wells
- @ Gallery 16
- Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little... View details »
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- The Way That We Rhyme
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to... View details »
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- Kiki
- @ Ratio 3
- As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at... View details »
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- Christian Marclay
- @ Fraenkel Gallery
- Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- Frameline32
- @ Various locations
- This year, the world's largest and oldest LGBT film festival is in transition. Outgoing Artistic Director Michael Lumpkin receives the 2008... View details »
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- Portals
- @ Johansson Projects
- This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 2nd Skin
- @ Exploratorium
- With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- @ Hypnodrome
- Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay... View details »
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- Soft Underbelly Recognition
- @ Little Tree Gallery
- In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition —... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He... View details »
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- Birth of the Cool
- @ Oakland Museum of California
- Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That... View details »
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- Brick Lane
- @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
- With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen... View details »
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