Events on Thursday, July 30

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
@ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...  View details »
Ongoing
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Looking In: Robert Frank's <em>The Americans</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The Cresting Wave: San Francisco Underground Comix Experience</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art
The Cresting Wave
@ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...  View details »
Ongoing
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Mark Baugh-Sasaki: <em>Adaptations</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_31
Art
Mark Baugh-Sasaki
@ Hayes Valley Park
The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing  (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the...  View details »
Ongoing
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29th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Month_07 Friday Day_31
Film: Festival
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
@ Various locations
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is always an eye-opening reminder of the diversity and variety of experience that falls under...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art: Photography
Richard Avedon
@ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...  View details »
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<em>Wallworks</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art
Wallworks
@ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Ten years ago, renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki designed YBCA's unique exhibition space. Now, with Wallworks, the beauty and utility of...  View details »
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<em>Then and Now: Photographs by Sebasti&atilde;o Salgado</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>This Town</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art
This Town
@ Eclectix Gallery
New York City has its skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty. Los Angeles has its vericose freeway interchanges, the Hollywood sign,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
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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 »
Ongoing
<em>Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Hunted and Gathered: Photographs</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art: Photography
Hunted and Gathered
@ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
Thrillpeddlers presents <em>Pearls Over Shanghai</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_31
Performing Arts: Theatre
Pearls Over Shanghai
@ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...  View details »
Ongoing
Joe Goode Performance Group: <em>Traveling Light</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Performing Arts: Dance
Traveling Light
@ Old Mint Building
Traveling Light, Joe Goode Performance Group's latest production, is aptly titled. The local company doesn't need to bring much with them...  View details »
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Conservatory of Flowers presents <em>Edible Expeditions</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
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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 »
Ongoing
<em>OCEAN + BEACH </em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art
OCEAN + BEACH
@ Needles & Pens
Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>10x10x10: An Invitational Exhibition </em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art: Photography
10x10x10
@ San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco is often described by its square mileage (7x7), but the city's Art Comission Gallery and PhotoAlliance have expanded those...  View details »
Ongoing
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Rebecca Martinez: <em>Beauty Challenged</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art: Photography
Rebecca Martinez
@ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
Warren MacKenzie: <em>Legacy of an American Potter</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art
Warren MacKenzie
@ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Trading in glitz and gloss for elegant understatement, American pottery master Warren MacKenzie has spent half a century crafting simple, eminently...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Safe Word</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art
Safe Word
@ Ratio 3
Ratio3 Gallery's new exhibition Safe Word helps puts to rest that age-old question: What will the neighbors think? In this case,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
Outdoor Exploratorium
Month_07 Friday Day_31
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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 »
Ongoing
Free
Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass: 12th and Final Season
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Film: Festival
Midnight Mass
@ Landmark Bridge Theater
It could be a tabloid headline: "Cult-movie host morphs into seven-figure film director." Instead, it's the end to this 12th season...  View details »
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John Baldessari: <em>A Print Retrospective</em>
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art
John Baldessari
@ The Legion of Honor Museum
John Baldessari's turbulent, on-again, off-again love affair with Los Angeles is as inseparable from the story of contemporary West Coast art...  View details »
Ongoing
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Jews on Vinyl
Month_07 Thursday Day_30
Art
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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