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Art
Half-Life of a Dream
Thursday July 10 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and... View details »
Half-Life of a Dream
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Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Thursday July 10 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
Free
When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually became a generation's time... View details »
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Music: Rock/Pop
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Thursday July 10 (8pm) @ Great American Music Hall
It would be a great disservice to pin the usual genre descriptors to the lapels of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Part of the Bay Area's avant-garde... View details »
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Music: Electronic
[SOLD OUT] Ratatat
Thursday July 10 (9pm) @ Slim's
Sold Out!
After two studio albums and two bootleg hip-hop mixtapes, New York's Ratatat decamped to an old mansion in the Catskills to record their third full-length... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Ratatat
More Flavor: Festival
CineKink
Thursday July 10 (7 & 9pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Whether you're crazy for leather, proudly polyamorous, or you just like to watch, CineKink's popular, perverse film series educates while it titillates. Susan for Now... View details »
CineKink
Music: DJ
Kode9
Thursday July 10 (9pm) @ Mezzanine
South London's Kode9 returns to SF after a long, worldwide jaunt, hitting the decks at Mezzanine. His DJ sets span a range of bass-heavy sounds,... View details »
Kode9
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Open for Business
Thursday July 10 (5–8pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within. Each vendor sets up... View details »
Open for Business
Music: Folk/Country
Kira Lynn Cain
Thursday July 10 (9pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Giveaway
On Kira Lynn Cain's debut album, The Ideal Hunter, echoing guitar notes, xylophone, piano, and drums wrap around pained, ethereal vocals. Cain's lyrics are mysterious... View details »
Kira Lynn Cain
More Flavor: Party
Boogie Slappin
Thursday July 10 (8pm) @ 111 Minna Gallery
San Francisco is becoming a hotbed of bedroom-producer Frankensteins, who stitch together party monsters from Lil Jon, Diplo, and Ghislain Poirier with supernatural skill. Heading... View details »
Boogie Slappin
More Flavor: Party
WORK
Thursday July 10 (10pm) @ Underground SF
SF's new electro label Unicrons (like the one-horned horse, but spelled funny!) debuts its secretive roster at the first installment of new monthly party WORK.... View details »
WORK
More Flavor: Tribute
The Brothers Unconnected
Thursday July 10 (9:30pm) @ Maxwell's Lounge
After 27 years of melting minds with their bold cross-pollination of hardcore, psychedelia, and ethnomusicology, Sun City Girls came to a sad end this past... View details »
The Brothers Unconnected
Film
Vertigo
Thursday July 10 (8pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Like Scottie and his phantasmic Madeleine, San Francisco just can't give up the ghost of Vertigo. And why should we? Our city has never been... View details »
Vertigo
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Ted Pushinsky
Thursday July 10 (5–9pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter More times »
Opening
Free
Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls to boxing rings to... View details »
Ted Pushinsky
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Room for Thought
Thursday July 10 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
Room for Thought

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Tim Lee
Thursday July 10 (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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Dale Chihuly
Thursday July 10 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
Dale Chihuly
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Thursday July 10 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
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 »
2nd Skin
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Art & Artifice
Thursday July 10 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
Free
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
Art & Artifice
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Frida Kahlo
Thursday July 10 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
Frida Kahlo
Art: Photography
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Thursday July 10 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
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American Symbols
Thursday July 10 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
American Symbols
Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Thursday July 10 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
Trevor Paglen
More Flavor: Exhibition
Birth of the Cool
Thursday July 10 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That history, largely one of... View details »
Birth of the Cool
More Flavor: Exhibition
Dykes on Bikes®
Thursday July 10 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride Parade. The GLBT Historical... View details »
More Flavor: Festival
Victory Gardens 2008+
Thursday July 10 @ City Hall More times »
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green activist Amy Franceschini joins... View details »
Victory Gardens 2008+
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Leigh Wells
Thursday July 10 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16 More times »
Free
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
Leigh Wells
Art: Photography
Tammy Rae Carland
Thursday July 10 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann Cvetkovich's lauded book. Between... View details »
Tammy Rae Carland
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INsects INsectos
Thursday July 10 (10am–7pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new sculpture group show at... View details »
INsects INsectos
More Flavor: Exhibition
Superstition Obstacle Course
Thursday July 10 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
... ening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack thereof), via an obstacle... View details »
Superstition Obstacle Course
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Women Impressionists
Thursday July 10 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
Women Impressionists
Art: Photography
The Art of Lee Miller
Thursday July 10 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso; fearless... View details »
The Art of Lee Miller
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Soft Underbelly Recognition
Thursday July 10 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery More times »
Free
In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition — a group exhibition that... View details »
Soft Underbelly Recognition
Performing Arts: Theatre
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Thursday July 10 @ Hypnodrome More times »
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s... View details »
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Art: Festival
MOVE>SOUND
Thursday July 10 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
MOVE>SOUND
Art: Photography
New American Fables
Thursday July 10 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
Free
Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic narratives rarely end with... View details »
New American Fables
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A Complicated Dominion
Thursday July 10 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
Free
When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
A Complicated Dominion
Film
Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
Thursday July 10 @ SFMOMA More times »
Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy — Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1949), and The Testament of Orpheus (1959) — spans... View details »
Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
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Insider/Outsider
Saturday July 12 (7–10pm) @ Root Division More times »
Free
Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors in the same San... View details »
Insider/Outsider
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The Beast in Me
Thursday July 10 (6–9pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
Free
While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain of being a man,"... View details »
The Beast in Me
Art: Photography
Windows on Nature
Thursday July 10 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns. Koh binds color-film transparencies... View details »
Windows on Nature
Film
Hank and Mike
Thursday July 10 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
Giveaway
In the vein of "holiday confidential" films like Bad Santa (2003) and Elf (2003), Matthiew Klinck's offbeat buddy comedy Hank and Mike offers a sweet,... View details »
Hank and Mike
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Kiki
Thursday July 10 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at an interesting time. Founded... View details »
Kiki
Art: Photography
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Thursday July 10 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean Drapeau's two controversial tenures.... View details »
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Art: Photography
Heroes & Villains
Saturday July 12 (7–11pm) @ The Shooting Gallery More times »
Free
A collection of who's who in the alt-comic and street-art scenes adorns the walls tonight in a portrait series by photographers Tatiana Wills and Roman... View details »
Heroes & Villains
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival
Thursday July 10 (8pm–midnight) @ The Crucible More times »
For those who can't wait until August's Burning Man to set stuff ablaze, there's always Crucible's Fire Arts Festival. The West Oakland industrial-arts hotbed hosts... View details »
The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival
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Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Thursday July 10 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
Free
While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are paired, Maria Antelman's coupling... View details »
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Film: Documentary
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Thursday July 10 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style. His maverick ways allowed... View details »
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Art
We Remember the Sun
Thursday July 10 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
Free
Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with... View details »
 We Remember the Sun