Events on Friday, June 6
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- More Flavor: Fundraiser
- Intersection Art Auction & Party
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- The Intersection celebrates its 43rd birthday with a week-long gallery show, followed by a party and an art auction. The multidisciplinary... View details »
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- Firewater
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- After the disintegration of his industrial group Cop Shoot Cop in 1996, singer Tod A. started Firewater, an outfit that has,... View details »
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- Stefan Goldmann
- @ Club 6ix
- "I'm ignorant toward Harvey, Cosmic, Balearic, Italo and all that sort of vibe," confesses techno DJ/producer Stefan Goldmann on his MySpace... View details »
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- Los Campesinos!
- @ Bimbo's
- Part performance art, part serious rock 'n roll, Wales-based septet Los Campesinos! play indie-pop songs that sound like Arcade Fire at... View details »
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- VINYL APOCALYPSE
- @ Lower Haters Gallery
- Many have lamented the slow fade of vinyl records. Even if you were born after the rise of the CD, it's... View details »
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- Frog Eyes
- @ Cafe du Nord
- Offering an uncompromising counterpoint to Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown's erratic pop exorcisms, British Columbia's Frog Eyes are an indie-rock success... 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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- 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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- Found Footage Festival
- @ Red Vic
- The invigorating flipside of America's obsession with "reality" TV is the found-art movement. FOUND magazine has turned from lark to legit... View details »
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- 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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- Adam5100
- @ Rowan Morrison
- The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his... 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Festival
- SF Black Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- The San Francisco Black Film Festival premiered in 1998 as a one-day event. Ten years make quite a difference: this year's... 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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- SF International Arts Festival
- @ Various locations
- The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at... 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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- Recession
- @ Queen's Nail Annex
- They say money makes the world go round — and although Maximo Gonzalez might agree, he's got his own cynical take... View details »
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- Quarter Century
- @ Creativity Explored
- Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th... 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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- Paul Sietsema
- @ SFMOMA
- Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles... 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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- MindFLESH and Imp of Satan
- @ Roxie Theater
- Flynn Witmeyer, the impresario behind Synchronium Films, is saving the queer-horror genre from the clutches of those hell-bent on destroying it.... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Another Hole in the Head
- @ Roxie Theater
- Now in its fifth year, the SF Indie's Another Hole in the Head Festival features two weeks of sci-fi and horror... 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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- 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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- 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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- Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
- @ Sculpturesite Gallery
- One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works... 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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- Feudal Echo
- @ Park Life
- Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,... View details »
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- In Collaboration
- @ SFMOMA
- San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media... 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Wonderboy
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- With an expert hand, Guggenheim Fellow Joe Goode directs and choreographs Wonderboy, which follows the travails of an unlikely superhero. Dancers... View details »
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- Ryan McGinley
- @ Ratio 3
- Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Sarah Wagner
- @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement... View details »
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- The Rape of the Sabine Women
- @ SFMOMA
- Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical... View details »
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- 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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- 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
- The Group
- @ Climate Theater
- From Dale Carnegie to Norman Vincent Peale (who coined the phrase "the power of positive thinking") to the current worldwide success... 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Exit Sign: A Rock Opera
- @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
- Exit Sign confronts all the major thematic touchstones of a self-respecting rock opera: love, death, and the dubious nature of reality... View details »
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