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Fri Jan 25
at Johansson Projects (noon - 9pm)
Have you always assumed that what's happening of note in the arts in Northern California stops at the Carquinez Bridge? Renny Pritikin, former chief curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and currently director of the Nelson Gallery & Fine Arts Collection, the fine arts museum for UC Davis, begs to differ. He has curated a show of five dynamic young artists from the Sacramento and Davis area for Johansson Projects of Oakland.
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Fri Jan 25 - Sun Mar 2
at Aurora Theatre Company (8pm)
When a young family moves into a predominantly black neighborhood undergoing gentrification, a Korean-American architect, her African American husband, and their new baby, are welcomed to their home by a rock thrown through the front window...
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Fri Jan 25
at Eureka Theatre (8pm)
In 1996, the Upright Citizens Brigade made the move from Chicago to New York City and the comedy world hasn't been the same since. While filming their popular Comedy Central series, which ran for three seasons, they opened the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, which offers improv and sketch training and a showcase for some of the best up-and-coming comedians in the country...
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Fri Jan 25
at Aftermodern (6pm - 9pm)
What stereotypes and personal associations do we attach to the word "Grandma"? Who can recall Grandma without considering old age, loneliness, fulfillment and death? This exhibition invites six artists to contemplate their own experience of family, memory and the cultural divide separating youth and old age
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Mon Jan 28
at San Francisco Studio School (7pm)
New York Sun art critic David Cohen will lecture on the School of London painters titled "Their blood in our veins: the School of London painters and the old masters." David Cohen explores the obsessive reworking of images from the history of art by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, and R.B. Kitaj, who were closely associated and known as the School of London.
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