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Music: Rock/Pop
Darker My Love
Thursday July 24 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
Free
Darker My Love's overdriven soul isn't the most original thing in the world — imagine the Jesus and Mary Chain channeled by Brian Jonestown Massacre... View details »
Darker My Love
Film: Documentary
The Last Zapatistas, Forgotten Heroes
Thursday July 24 (8:30pm) @ Carlos Club
Free
Eighty years after the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was killed in an ambush, filmmaker Francesco Taboada Tabone set out to interview the last surviving members... View details »
The Last Zapatistas, Forgotten Heroes

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Art
Tim Lee
Thursday July 24 (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
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Thursday July 24 (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
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Thursday July 24 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually became a generation's time... View details »
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Art: Photography
Tammy Rae Carland
Thursday July 24 (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
Thursday July 24 (10am–7pm) @ 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
Timothy Cummings
Thursday July 24 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery More times »
Free
Timothy Cummings skipped art school and taught himself to paint, honing his craft by taking cues from the Old Masters and soaking up the Spanish... View details »
Timothy Cummings
Art: Photography
New American Fables
Thursday July 24 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
Thursday July 24 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
Ground Scores
Art
A Complicated Dominion
Thursday July 24 (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
Art
Insider/Outsider
Thursday July 24 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division More times »
Free
Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors in the same San... View details »
Insider/Outsider
Art
Open for Business
Thursday July 24 (5–8pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within. Each vendor sets up... View details »
Open for Business
Art
Radialvedic
Thursday July 24 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the three artists here work... View details »
Radialvedic
Art: Photography
Windows on Nature
Thursday July 24 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns. Koh binds color-film transparencies... View details »
Windows on Nature
Art
Hum
Thursday July 24 (2–5pm) @ Project Artaud Theater More times »
Free
The drone moves across a remarkable spread of human activity, from religious chanting and doom metal to the whir of white noise. For Hum,... View details »
Hum
Art
Jennifer Merrill
Thursday July 24 @ Iceberger Gallery More times »
Free
Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting... View details »
Jennifer Merrill
Art
Kiki
Thursday July 24 (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
Ted Pushinsky
Thursday July 24 (10am–10pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter More times »
Free
Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls to boxing rings to... View details »
Ted Pushinsky
Art
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Thursday July 24 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are paired, Maria Antelman's coupling... View details »
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Art
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Thursday July 24 (noon–8pm) @ Park Life More times »
Free
Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a deeper unease. Inspired by... View details »
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Art: Photography
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Thursday July 24 (8am–8pm) @ City Hall More times »
Free
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working in a range of... View details »
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Art
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Thursday July 24 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
Free
After having spent the last few generations ridding themselves of modernism's pungent aftertaste, the art world's contemporary painters are finally up to the task of... View details »
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Art
Mariah Johnson
Thursday July 24 (1–6pm) @ The Lab More times »
Free
Mariah Johnson's installations re-envision household order as natural phenomena, draping and wrapping bed linens over chairs, walls, and floors in ways that twist the familiar... View details »
Mariah Johnson
Art
Fanee
Thursday July 24 (noon–7pm) @ The Shooting Gallery More times »
Free
Fanee's Holla at the Bay is a provocative portrayal of female objectification and sexuality that leaves little to the imagination. Two-dozen postcard-sized marker drawings depict... View details »
Fanee
Art
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Thursday July 24 (11am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
Free
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and embroiders the headline images,... View details »
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Art
We Remember the Sun
Thursday July 24 (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