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Dawn '08
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Saturday June 7 (8pm–3am) @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
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After months of renovations to its new home at beautiful Jessie Square, the Contemporary Jewish Museum finally throws open its doors for Dawn '08. The... View details »
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Newton Faulkner
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Saturday June 7 @ Slim's
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Like so many prolific UK musicians who've made it big in their home country, Newton Faulkner is still relatively unknown in the US. His No.... View details »
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Tormenta Tropical
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Saturday June 7 (10pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
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"Lazer bass" may be the buzzed-about genre-du-jour, but Orlando's South Rakkas Crew deserve a few air-horn blasts for bridging the electro, hip-hop, and dancehall divides.... View details »
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Berkeley World Music Festival
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Saturday June 7 (noon–9pm) @ Telegraph Ave btwn Bancroft Way & Parker St in Berkeley
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Though the "world music" tag still invokes American recording-industry hegemony, this one-day extravaganza promises to be loads of fun. Those with a dance jones should... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Radio Slave
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Saturday June 7 (10pm) @ The Endup
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San Francisco's leading techno party has enlisted one of electronic music's busiest producer/DJs, Matt Edwards, to help bid adieu to [KONTROL]'s terrible twos. When he's... View details »
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Alicia McCarthy
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Saturday June 7 (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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MSTRKRFT and Moby
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Saturday June 7 (10pm–3am) @ Mezzanine
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Death From Above 1979's Jesse F. Keeler (JFK) and fellow electro-lover ALP joined razor-sharp synths in 2005 and have globe-hopped as MSTRKRFT ever since. They've... View details »
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The Black Angels
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Saturday June 7 (9pm) @ The Independent
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Neo-psychers the Black Angels plumb a pretty wide range of obscurist delights, cozying up to everyone from Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine to the... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Saturday June 7 (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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In Collaboration
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Saturday June 7 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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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 »
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Paul Sietsema
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Saturday June 7 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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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 »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Saturday June 7 (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 »
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2nd Skin
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Saturday June 7 (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 »
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Quarter Century
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Saturday June 7 (1–6pm) @ Creativity Explored
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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 »
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Sarah Wagner
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Saturday June 7 (10:30am–5pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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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 »
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Christian Marclay
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Saturday June 7 (11am–5pm) @ 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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American Symbols
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Saturday June 7 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Feudal Echo
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Saturday June 7 (noon–9pm) @ Park Life
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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 »
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Portals
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Saturday June 7 (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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William T. Wiley
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Saturday June 7 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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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Improbable\Unlikely
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Saturday June 7 (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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Recession
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Saturday June 7 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex
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They say money makes the world go round — and although Maximo Gonzalez might agree, he's got his own cynical take on the spiraling global... View details »
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Adam5100
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Saturday June 7 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison
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The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his painting and printmaking at... View details »
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Suzanne Husky
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Saturday June 7 (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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Karla Wozniak
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Saturday June 7 (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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Trevor Paglen
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Saturday June 7 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley
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Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Saturday June 7 (2pm) @ SFMOMA
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As a New German Cinema progenitor obsessed with stylish reconstructions of his country's troubled 20th-century history, R.W. Fassbinder had a natural interest in Alfred Döblin's... View details »
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365
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Saturday June 7 @ 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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Leigh Wells
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Saturday June 7 (11am–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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Wonderboy
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Saturday June 7 (8pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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With an expert hand, Guggenheim Fellow Joe Goode directs and choreographs Wonderboy, which follows the travails of an unlikely superhero. Dancers move around a puppet... View details »
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Sean Talley
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Saturday June 7 (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 »
