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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Vetiver
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Tuesday May 6 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
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While often grouped with the local freak-folk scene because of their close affiliation with (sometimes member) Devendra Banhart, Vetiver generally favor winsome pop melodies over... View details »
- Film
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Planet of the Apes
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Tuesday May 6 (7 & 9:15pm) @ The Castro Theatre
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With the recent passing of Charlton "cold dead hands" Heston, the Castro's screening of this recently reissued, 40-year-old classic is actually more poignant than kitschy.... View details »
- More Flavor: Tribute
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Utah Phillips
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Tuesday May 6 (8pm) @ Freight & Salvage Coffee House
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Utah Phillips may have the white beard of an elderly man, but the folk singer's rabble-rousing politics keep him young and spry. After unsuccessfully running... View details »
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Gareth Moore
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Tuesday May 6 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Vancouver artist Gareth Moore takes hold of the reins at the Wattis, presenting the ninth solo exhibition in the gallery's ongoing Passengers series. Moore strives... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Tuesday May 6 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 »
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Gilbert & George
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Tuesday May 6 @ de Young Museum
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Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Friedlander
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Tuesday May 6 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Annie Leibovitz
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Tuesday May 6 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
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In Collaboration
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Tuesday May 6 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
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Victor Cartagena
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Tuesday May 6 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza
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Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
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The Question Is Known
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Tuesday May 6 (10am–5pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the work of mixed-media painter... View details »
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The Way That We Rhyme
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Tuesday May 6 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
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2nd Skin
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Tuesday May 6 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium
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With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
- Art: Photography
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After the Revolution
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Tuesday May 6 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has become the privileged site... View details »
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Inkie Whang
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Tuesday May 6 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the dozen paintings on display... View details »
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Quarter Century
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Tuesday May 6 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored
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Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th year, the nonprofit studio... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Joy Division
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Tuesday May 6 @ Roxie New College Film Center
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When Grant Gee's documentary portrait of the iconic Manchester post-punk band Joy Division played at Yerba Buena last January, legions of Ian Curtis fans made... View details »
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Veronica Graham
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Tuesday May 6 (3–10pm) @ CELLspace
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Composed of more than 2000 hand-printed cloth swatches, Veronica Graham's sprawling installation Bonus Map takes over CELLspace's wall like cartographic kudzu. Each individual tile evokes... View details »
- Film
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Jellyfish
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Tuesday May 6 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses... View details »
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Paul Sietsema
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Tuesday May 6 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
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Greg Lamarche
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Tuesday May 6 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery
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Greg Lamarche is crazy about the letters of the alphabet. It's a fascination that dates back to his years as a graffiti artist in Boston... View details »
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Graduation
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Tuesday May 6 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
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Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank heist of Dog... View details »
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Sarah Wagner
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Tuesday May 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement floors and plaster walls,... View details »
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Christian Marclay
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Tuesday May 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery
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Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in used record shops. He's... View details »
