Events on Friday, May 29
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- Music: Experimental
- Wolf Eyes
- @ OCD Warehouse
- Since doing a little dance with DFA called Cone Toaster several years back, Brooklyn noiseniks Black Dice have turned their eyes... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Pilooski
- @ 103 Harriet St
- If a skillful re-edit can be a DJ's best secret dance-floor weapon, consider Pilooski's arsenal well-stocked. The Parisian DJ has been... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art: Photography
- Robert Frank's The Americans
- @ SFMOMA
- In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- A Wink and a Smile
- @ Red Vic
- Even though burlesque has hit the mainstream, thanks to high-profile proponents such as Dita von Teese, it still has the power... View details »
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- Soft Core
- @ Receiver Gallery
- Crammed with towering geometric constructions, rich pearled textures, evocative costumes, and fluorescent color juxtapositions bordering on the bellicose, Sarah Applebaum's sprawling... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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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- Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
- @ Triple Base
- All that glitters isn't gold in Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk's complementary exhibitions at Triple Base — but what shines is... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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
- Fukú Americanus
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- Acting group Campo Santo cook up an extremely playful take on Junot Diaz's Pulitzer-prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar... 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- KML Hits Highway 101
- @ Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens
- Leaving the crumbling, blood-splattered Hollywood bungalow of its last production, Pure Shock Value, for the open road, sketch-comedy troupe Killing My... View details »
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- Art
- Desirée Holman
- @ Silverman Gallery
- Desirée Holman knows a thing or two about the power of make-believe. The recent SECA Award recipient often utilizes handmade costumes,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Kenneth Josephson
- @ Robert Koch Gallery
- Kenneth Josephson's black-and-white photographs of "pictures within pictures" laid the groundwork for conceptual photography, bringing into question our notions of illusion... 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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- Art: Photography
- Pae White
- @ New Langton Arts
- Entering Pae White's exhibit is a bit like walking into a different time, in another place and culture altogether. This is,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
- @ The David Brower Center
- Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed... 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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- Film: Festival
- In the Realm of Oshima
- @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Frequently hailed as the Jean Luc Godard of Japan, Nagisa Oshima has a reputation as one of his country's foremost radical... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Faust Part One
- @ Ashby Stage
- The devil has come to roost at the Shotgun Players' Ashby Stage, and the pairing is indeed delicious. Faust Part One... 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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- Art
- 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
- Boleros for the Disenchanted
- @ American Conservatory Theater
- Motorcycle Diaries screenwriter José Rivera spent a decade ruminating, fidgeting, and fixating on his new play between other projects, but couldn't... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Edible Expeditions
- @ Conservatory of Flowers
- Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to... View details »
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- I Am Kurious Orange
- @ David Cunningham Projects
- If you were to unpack all the dense layers of association, reference, and personal connection in this show, you still might... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Acrobatics
- Kamikaze Heart
- @ Brava Theater Center
- Imagine Cirque du Soleil merging with a b-boy championship, and you'll have something close to City Circus, a company that brings... 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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- 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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