All events on Tuesday June 03

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Art
ArtSpan: 30 Under 30
Tuesday June 3 (11am–11pm) @ 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
More Flavor: Discussion
The Gaming (R)Evolution
Tuesday June 3 (7–8:15pm) @ Novellus Theater
Sure, the US military uses video games to entice new recruits. But whether or not gaming could be used to foster social change offline remains... View details »
The Gaming (R)Evolution
Music: Hip-Hop
The Cool Kids
Tuesday June 3 (9pm) @ The Independent
Chi-town's the Cool Kids show off their smooth-as-molasses flow over a fresh batch of addictive, old-school beats. In support of The Bake Sale, their full-length... View details »
The Cool Kids

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Tim Lee
Tuesday June 3 (11am–7pm) @ 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
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In Collaboration
Tuesday June 3 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
In Collaboration
Art
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Tuesday June 3 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery More times »
Free
One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works constructed from repurposed materials.... View details »
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
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The Rape of the Sabine Women
Tuesday June 3 @ SFMOMA More times »
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical myth, art history, and... View details »
The Rape of the Sabine Women
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The Way That We Rhyme
Tuesday June 3 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
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 »
The Way That We Rhyme
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Tuesday June 3 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
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 »
2nd Skin
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Tuesday June 3 (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
After the Revolution
Tuesday June 3 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
After the Revolution
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Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Tuesday June 3 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design More times »
Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the 1950s with the verve... View details »
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
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Quarter Century
Tuesday June 3 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th year, the nonprofit studio... View details »
Quarter Century
Art: Photography
The Reggae Scrapbook
Tuesday June 3 (noon–9pm) @ 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
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Paul Sietsema
Tuesday June 3 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
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 »
Paul Sietsema
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Karla Wozniak
Thursday June 5 (5:30–7:30pm) @ 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
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American Symbols
Tuesday June 3 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
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 »
American Symbols
More Flavor: Festival
SF International Arts Festival
Tuesday June 3 @ Various locations More times »
The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at venues including the Yerba... View details »
SF International Arts Festival
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Sarah Wagner
Tuesday June 3 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Sarah Wagner
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William T. Wiley
Tuesday June 3 (10am–6pm) @ 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
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Christian Marclay
Tuesday June 3 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Film
The Children of Huang Shi
Tuesday June 3 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema More times »
Based on a true story, The Children of Huang Shi follows a group of orphaned children fleeing war-torn China in the wake of the 1930s... View details »
The Children of Huang Shi
More Flavor: Exhibition
Dykes on Bikes®
Tuesday June 3 (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 »
Film: Documentary
Note by Note
Tuesday June 3 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
An ode to music and craftsmanship, Ben Niles' documentary Note by Note details the painstaking craftsmanship required to produce one Steinway piano, from its... View details »
Note by Note
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Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Tuesday June 3 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
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Feudal Echo
Tuesday June 3 (noon–8pm) @ Park Life More times »
Free
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days, but painters Alex Lukas... View details »
Feudal Echo
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Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Tuesday June 3 (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
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Hopeless and Otherwise
Tuesday June 3 (10am–6pm) @ Southern Exposure More times »
Free
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 »
Hopeless and Otherwise