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Gary Panter
Saturday June 28 (2pm) @ Amoeba Music
Free
Gary Panter's hyper-colored visuals influenced a generation of wide-eyed imaginations. As the set designer for Pee-wee's Playhouse, Panter conjured domestic hallucinations and childlike reveries that... View details »
Gary Panter
More Flavor: Parade
SF Pride Celebration
Saturday June 28 (noon–6pm) @ Civic Center More times »
Free
There's plenty to be proud of this year — most of all, the recent landmark legal victory that has California's LGBT couples lining up across... View details »
SF Pride Celebration

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Art
Tim Lee
Saturday June 28 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
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 »
Tim Lee
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Saturday June 28 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
Free
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
Art & Artifice
Art: Photography
The Reggae Scrapbook
Saturday June 28 (noon–7pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
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 »
The Reggae Scrapbook
Art
Portals
Saturday June 28 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Portals
Art
Karla Wozniak
Saturday June 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Karla Wozniak
Art
Suzanne Husky
Saturday June 28 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
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 »
Suzanne Husky
Art
ArtSpan: 30 Under 30
Saturday June 28 (1–5pm) @ Varnish Fine Art More times »
Free
Bay Area Now 5 doesn't hit the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts until July, but ArtSpan has the jump on the freshest native talent... View details »
ArtSpan: 30 Under 30
Art
William T. Wiley
Saturday June 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Electric Works More times »
Free
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 »
William T. Wiley
Art
Christian Marclay
Saturday June 28 (11am–5pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Christian Marclay
More Flavor: Exhibition
Dykes on Bikes®
Saturday June 28 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride Parade. The GLBT Historical... View details »
Art
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Saturday June 28 (10:30am–5pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Art
Leigh Wells
Saturday June 28 (11am–5pm) @ Gallery 16 More times »
Free
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 »
Leigh Wells
Art: Photography
Tammy Rae Carland
Saturday June 28 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann Cvetkovich's lauded book. Between... View details »
Tammy Rae Carland
Art
INsects INsectos
Saturday June 28 (1–6pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
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 »
INsects INsectos
Art
Improbable\Unlikely
Saturday June 28 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Improbable\Unlikely
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Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Saturday June 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
Free
Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened, skewed architecture, Candy Garden... View details »
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Art
Sean Talley
Saturday June 28 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Sean Talley
Art
Soft Underbelly Recognition
Saturday June 28 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Soft Underbelly Recognition
Art
Alicia McCarthy
Saturday June 28 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Alicia McCarthy
Art: Photography
New American Fables
Thursday July 3 (5:30–7:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
Free
Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic narratives rarely end with... View details »
New American Fables
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A Complicated Dominion
Saturday June 28 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
A Complicated Dominion
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The Beast in Me
Saturday June 28 (11am–5pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
The Beast in Me
Art
Kiki
Saturday June 28 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
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 »
Kiki
Art
We Remember the Sun
Saturday June 28 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
Free
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 »
 We Remember the Sun