Events on Thursday, April 16
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- Music: Electronic
- Junior Boys
- @ Bimbo's
- The Max Tundra faithful waited an excruciating six years for Parallax Error Beheads You, the follow-up to the groundbreakingly idiosyncratic Mastered... View details »
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- Music: Global
- Tinariwen
- @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
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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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- Art: Photography
- Sean McFarland
- @ SF Camerawork
- In 2003, an 1857 albumen print of Gustave Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète set the new world record for the... 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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- Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- In an exhibit that the New York Times labeled "must be seen to be believed," dancer and visual artist Nick Cave... View details »
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- Under a Full Moon
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Clad in their trademark brazier-like wimples and Kabuki-meets-Mardis Gras makeup, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have always carried out their good... 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
- 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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- 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
- 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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- Ranjani Shettar
- @ SFMOMA
- Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Cathleen Naundorf
- @ Robert Tat Gallery
- One of the world's foremost fashion photographers, Cathleen Naundorf often looks to the medium's golden age for inspiration. Typically shooting in... View details »
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- Heroes and Villains
- @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
- The aptly titled Heroes and Villains is an eclectic exhibition bringing together a spectrum of works that focus on everyone's favorite... View details »
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- The Watcher in the Woods
- @ Gallery 1988
- If you've ever seen Disney's one-off horror film The Watcher in the Woods (1980), you can imagine the creepiness of a... 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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- 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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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Chris Dave
- @ Yoshi's
- Jazz-obsessed drummer Chris "Daddy" Dave has a way of humanizing the most outrageous rhythms — a talent that has made him... View details »
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- Jonathan Runcio
- @ Ratio 3
- Even though SF artist Jonathan Runcio has likened his vibrantly hued, three-dimensional works to "crumpled paintings," his exhibition at Ratio 3... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Migdalia Valdes
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- Ten years ago, Migdalia Valdes decided she would snap a roll of film a day for the rest of her life.... View details »
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- Draw
- @ The Shooting Gallery
- Draw offers up over 300 sketched specimens from the urban jungle — skateboard designs, music-related art, tattoos, graffiti — with everything... 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: Theatre
- The Story
- @ SF Playhouse
- In the West Coast premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson's play, the ever-present issue of integrity in journalism is brought to the... View details »
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- William Kentridge
- @ SFMOMA
- Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each... 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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