Events on Friday, March 13
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Point Break LIVE!
- @ CELLspace
- Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Asobi Seksu
- @ The Independent
- Asobi Seksu's third album, Hush, sees the Brooklynites branching out from shoegaze roots to emit fully-honed dream-pop. Their name derives from... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art
- Inside/Outside
- @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
- From Kurt Schwitter's Merzbau to Donald Judd's Marfa, Texas ranch, artists have long made their homes extensions of their studios, and... View details »
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- Warhol Live
- @ de Young Museum
- "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," Andy Warhol once quipped. Warhol Live focuses on the artist's... View details »
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- Wings for Words
- @ San Francisco Center for the Book
- The San Francisco Center for the Book adds an international spin to its venerable collection of artists' books with Wings for... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Nose
- @ The Phoenix Theater
- In honor of Nicolai Gogol's 200th birthday, the renowned International Theater Ensemble has created a three-part experiment in narrative, centered on... View details »
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- Irreverent
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Sleek, colorless efficiency be damned; Irreverent presents two sides of the new Scandinavian art. Blending homage to traditional materials and processes... View details »
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- Jews on Vinyl
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- The CJM has already wowed with its stunning architecture and expansive collection, but if you needed another reason to visit, it's... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Outdoor Exploratorium
- @ Fort Mason Center
- Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with... View details »
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- Paul McCarthy
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Paul McCarthy's career can be described as a movement from liquids to solids. The artist's early performance-based work — which found... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- SF International Asian American Film Fest
- @ Various locations
- "The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of... View details »
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- Yan Pei-Ming
- @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
- The large-scale oil paintings and watercolors in Yan Pei-Ming's first West Coast show bear the scars of an ongoing struggle with... View details »
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- Jim Gaylord
- @ Gregory Lind Gallery
- The late critic Paul Virilio noted the way in which digital media constantly strive to anticipate an "unknowable" passing event, creating... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Audacious Artefacts
- @ Hypnodrome
- Horror, erotica, and live theatre collide and combine for the ménage-à-trois of hair-raising delights that is the Thrillpeddlers' modern-day Grand Guignol.... View details »
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- transPOP
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- In transPOP, 16 artists reveal and restructure the love/hate triangle between Korea, Vietnam, and the United States. This international survey examines... View details »
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- Yves Saint Laurent
- @ de Young Museum
- After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- J. MAYER H.
- @ SFMOMA
- J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- ODC presents Dance Downtown
- @ Novellus Theater
- Some of the world's best dancers congregate at ODC, a company known for its athleticism and innovation. This year's Dance Downtown... View details »
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- Kristen Morgin
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Looking at artist Kristen Morgin's nimbly crafted sculptures — such as a faded, dent-laden pedal car — it's hard to avoid... View details »
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- Galaxy
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- With the financial crisis affecting all spheres of the market, including the art world, it's not surprising that museums are looking... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pure Shock Value
- @ EXIT Theatre
- The local sketch-comedy savants of Killing My Lobster certainly make good on the title of their second full-length play, Pure Shock... View details »
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- Equivalents
- @ Gallery 16
- In a time when technology often overshadows conventional art forms, the work of SF-based artist Elliot Anderson seamlessly merges the techno-savvy... View details »
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- Test Patterns
- @ SF Camerawork
- South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of... View details »
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- PostSecret
- @ Bedford Gallery
- It all started in 2004, when Frank Warren distributed 3,000 postcards to total strangers. The rules were simple: write down a... View details »
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- Passionate Struggle
- @ 499 Castro St
- One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
- Don't be misled by its parenthetical title — the early 20th-century ancestor of the Hitachi Magic Wand is only one link... View details »
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- 2008 SECA Art Award
- @ SFMOMA
- SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights... View details »
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- Jews on Vinyl
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- A unique exhibition, which spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that... View details »
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