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- Music: Jazz/Blues
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Le Jazz Hot
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Thursday July 31 (12:30–1:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Gardens
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More than 50 years after his death, guitarists still marvel over Django Reinhardt's blistering jazz solos and tangy gypsy scales, made all the more marvelous... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Faun Fables
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Thursday July 31 (9pm) @ Cafe du Nord
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Less a woman than a storm, Faun Fables' Dawn McCarthy has a truly spellbinding stage presence, twirling and stomping like a gothic whirlwind. Her voice... View details »
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Angel of Fire
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Thursday July 31 @ SFMOMA
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Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit — forms a composite... View details »
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles
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Thursday July 31 (7–8:30pm) @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
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Since the '70s, Mierle Laderman Ukeles has collapsed conventional social boundaries in her artwork; for one of her most famous pieces, Touch Sanitation, she thanked... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Thursday July 31 (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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Dale Chihuly
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Thursday July 31 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum
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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 »
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2nd Skin
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Thursday July 31 (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 »
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Frida Kahlo
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Thursday July 31 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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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 »
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American Symbols
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Thursday July 31 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
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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 »
- Art: Photography
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Trevor Paglen
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Thursday July 31 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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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 »
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INsects INsectos
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Thursday July 31 (10am–7pm) @ Creativity Explored
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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 »
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Timothy Cummings
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Thursday July 31 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery
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Timothy Cummings skipped art school and taught himself to paint, honing his craft by taking cues from the Old Masters and soaking up the Spanish... View details »
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Women Impressionists
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Thursday July 31 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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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 »
- Art: Festival
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MOVE>SOUND
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Thursday July 31 @ Various locations
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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 »
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Ground Scores
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Thursday July 31 @ Various locations
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Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
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A Complicated Dominion
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Thursday July 31 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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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 »
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Bay Area Now 5
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Thursday July 31 (noon–8pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
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Open for Business
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Thursday July 31 (5–8pm) @ Triple Base
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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 »
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Radialvedic
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Thursday July 31 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
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With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the three artists here work... View details »
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Windows on Nature
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Thursday July 31 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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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 »
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The Wackness
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Thursday July 31 @ Various locations
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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Hum
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Thursday July 31 (2–5pm) @ Project Artaud Theater
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The drone moves across a remarkable spread of human activity, from religious chanting and doom metal to the whir of white noise. For Hum,... View details »
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Jennifer Merrill
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Thursday July 31 @ Iceberger Gallery
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Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting... View details »
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Kiki
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Thursday July 31 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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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 »
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Room for Thought
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Thursday July 31 (10am–9:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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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 »
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Mariah Johnson
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Thursday July 31 (1–6pm) @ The Lab
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Mariah Johnson's installations re-envision household order as natural phenomena, draping and wrapping bed linens over chairs, walls, and floors in ways that twist the familiar... View details »
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Fanee
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Thursday July 31 (noon–7pm) @ The Shooting Gallery
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Fanee's Holla at the Bay is a provocative portrayal of female objectification and sexuality that leaves little to the imagination. Two-dozen postcard-sized marker drawings depict... View details »
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My Winnipeg
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Thursday July 31 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
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In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
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Brideshead Revisited
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Thursday July 31 (12:20, 2:50, 3:45, 6:45, 8:40 & 9:40pm) @ Landmark Embarcadero
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For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
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We Remember the Sun
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Thursday July 31 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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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 »
