Events on Thursday, July 3
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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 » View details »
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- Women Impressionists
- @ The Legion of Honor Museum
- Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often... View details » View details »
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- Dale Chihuly
- @ de Young Museum
- Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish,... View details » 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 » 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 » 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 » View details »
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- Superstition Obstacle Course
- @ Exploratorium
- Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack... View details » View details »
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- Frida Kahlo
- @ SFMOMA
- The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led... View details » View details »
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- INsects INsectos
- @ Creativity Explored
- From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new... View details » 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 » View details »
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- The Art of Lee Miller
- @ SFMOMA
- Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray,... View details » View details »
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- New American Fables
- @ Robert Koch Gallery
- Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic... View details » View details »
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- Windows on Nature
- @ Frey Norris Gallery
- With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns.... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Tammy Rae Carland
- @ Silverman Gallery
- It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann... View details » 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 » View details »
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- We Remember the Sun
- @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
- Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Kiki
- @ Ratio 3
- As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at... View details » 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 » View details »
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- A Complicated Dominion
- @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Soft Underbelly Recognition
- @ Little Tree Gallery
- In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition —... View details » 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 » View details »
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- 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 » 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 » 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 » View details »
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- The Beast in Me
- @ Ping Pong Gallery
- While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain... View details » View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Megafaun
- @ 12 Galaxies
- Akron/Family touring partners Megafaun take inspiration from the Grateful Dead's soaring vocal harmonies, channeled through bluegrass, Southern rock, and folk. As... View details » View details »
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- Baby Boomers Fucked Everything
- @ Southern Exposure
- To mark the closing of Southern Exposure's politically charged exhibit Hopeless and Otherwise, the gallery is shooting off a few pre-July... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Art: Festival
- MOVE>SOUND
- @ Various locations
- Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco.... View details » View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- @ Landmark Embarcadero
- The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style.... View details » View details »
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- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- @ Hypnodrome
- Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay... View details » View details »
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- Hank and Mike
- @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
- In the vein of "holiday confidential" films like Bad Santa (2003) and Elf (2003), Matthiew Klinck's offbeat buddy comedy Hank and... View details » View details »
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- Victory Gardens 2008+
- @ City Hall
- During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green... View details » View details »
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- TRON and Brainstorm
- @ The Castro Theatre
- The Castro celebrates Independence Day with a double-header of mad scientists and hackers. The Fouth of July bill features genre-founding sci-fi... View details » View details »
