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Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Sunday Nov 23 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into the emotional substance of... View details »
 Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Art: Photography
Brought to Light
Sunday Nov 23 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring the ways it led... View details »
Brought to Light
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Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Sunday Nov 23 (11am–5:30pm) @ Contemporary Jewish Museum More times »
It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century would warrant a... View details »
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
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The Art of Participation
Sunday Nov 23 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate a countercurrent in 20th-century... View details »
The Art of Participation
Art: Festival
Food Justice
Sunday Nov 23 (noon–7pm) @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective More times »
Free
With this collaborative exhibit that opens a dialogue on nutrition education, resource scarcity, and urban homesteading, the Rock Paper Scissors collective makes good on that... View details »
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Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Sunday Nov 23 (noon–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
In honor of Dias de los Muertos, small altars of glowing candles and sugar skulls, large-scale public installations, and processions fill the Oakland Museum of... View details »
 Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
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Stolen Land
Sunday Nov 23 (noon–7pm) @ Needles & Pens More times »
Free
Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined the concept of graffiti.... View details »
Stolen Land
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L.A. Paint
Sunday Nov 23 (noon–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases some of SoCal's best... View details »
 L.A. Paint
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Banned and Recovered
Monday Nov 24 (10am–5pm) @ San Francisco Center for the Book More times »
Free
In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of schools, libraries, and the... View details »
Banned and Recovered
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As Above So Below
Monday Nov 24 (10am–8pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter More times »
Free
In a devastating display of nature's fury, Chile's Chaitén volcano erupted last May, spewing plumes of roiling ash that generated dense thickets of lightning. Inspired... View details »
As Above So Below
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Off the Edge
Tuesday Nov 25 (10am–6pm) @ Scott Richards Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Ever since Robert Rauschenberg challenged the sovereignty of the second dimension in painting by introducing foreign objects into the equation, painters have been itching to... View details »
Off the Edge
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Diem Chau
Tuesday Nov 25 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art More times »
Free
With an exacting delicacy, Vietnamese-born artist Diem Chau uses thread, fabric, and porcelain to sculpt fleeting glimpses of the human figure. In her latest work,... View details »
Diem Chau
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Kate Gilmore
Tuesday Nov 25 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery More times »
Free
Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body headlong into painful physical... View details »
Kate Gilmore
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Theresa Ganz
Tuesday Nov 25 (11am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts More times »
Free
As pundits draw parallels between Obama and Lincoln on the evening news, everyone else is brushing up on their 19th-century history, including artist Theresa Ganz.... View details »
Theresa Ganz
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The Wizard of Oz
Tuesday Nov 25 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis of this tightly-packed group... View details »
The Wizard of Oz
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Tim Lee
Tuesday Nov 25 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
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 his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
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Paul Insect
Tuesday Nov 25 (noon–6pm) @ FIFTY24SF Gallery More times »
Free
When he arrived stateside for his latest show, London artist Paul Insect pasted the streets of SF with his signature image: a baby's head emblazoned... View details »
Paul Insect
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Collapsitalism
Thursday Nov 27 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
Clearly, the fundamentals of the economy are not strong, and the symptoms of Depression 2.0 have started to cripple what was once capitalism's most spectacular... View details »
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Tickling Thicket
Thursday Nov 27 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone and Yvette Molina successfully... View details »
Tickling Thicket