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Tim Lee
Saturday July 26 (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
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Dale Chihuly
Saturday July 26 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
Dale Chihuly
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Frida Kahlo
Saturday July 26 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
Frida Kahlo
Art: Photography
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Saturday July 26 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
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American Symbols
Saturday July 26 (11am–5pm) @ 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
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Half-Life of a Dream
Saturday July 26 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and... View details »
Half-Life of a Dream
Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Saturday July 26 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
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 »
Trevor Paglen
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Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Saturday July 26 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Saturday July 26 (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
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INsects INsectos
Saturday July 26 (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
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Timothy Cummings
Saturday July 26 (11am–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
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Women Impressionists
Saturday July 26 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
Women Impressionists
Art: Photography
The Art of Lee Miller
Saturday July 26 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso; fearless... View details »
The Art of Lee Miller
Art: Festival
MOVE>SOUND
Saturday July 26 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
MOVE>SOUND
Art: Photography
New American Fables
Saturday July 26 (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
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A Complicated Dominion
Saturday July 26 (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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Bay Area Now 5
Saturday July 26 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
Bay Area Now 5
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Insider/Outsider
Saturday July 26 (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
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Open for Business
Saturday July 26 (noon–5pm) @ 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
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Radialvedic
Saturday July 26 (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
Saturday July 26 (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
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Hum
Saturday July 26 (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
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Jennifer Merrill
Saturday July 26 @ 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
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Kiki
Saturday July 26 (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: Photography
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Saturday July 26 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
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 Drapeau's two controversial tenures.... View details »
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
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Ted Pushinsky
Saturday July 26 (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
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Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Saturday July 26 (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
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Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Saturday July 26 (noon–9pm) @ 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
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Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Saturday July 26 (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
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Room for Thought
Saturday July 26 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
Room for Thought
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Mariah Johnson
Saturday July 26 (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
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Fanee
Saturday July 26 (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
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Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Saturday July 26 (11am–5pm) @ 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
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We Remember the Sun
Saturday July 26 (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