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Jan 14th – 27th
On Friday, January 21st, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts throws open the doors of the Grand Lobby and Galleries to celebrate the opening of three new visual arts exhibits. From 8-11pm, there will be a cash bar with live vaudevillian performances, DJs and continuous showings of old magic films. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. The new exhibits continue through April 3rd and are as follows: More
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Jan 28th - Feb 10th
Art SF throws down in their usual creative extravagance to stick it to the Jesus-freaks and office-holding knuckle-draggers. Buckey Sinister hosts "Fuck Your Freedom" on Jan 28th to celebrate civil liberties, Satan and the new CD by Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba and United Satanic Apache Front. Winston Smith and the Church of Satan will join the good reverend in showing off their art wares whilst Lady Hades performs and many a spoken word artist ignite the theme of uncivil disobedience. Entrance is $5-$10 unless you're such a proud Christian that you must identify as such to the doorman – then it's $23, sucker. More
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The wall outside the Haight Street headquarters of record company/art collective Future Primitive Sound is like a signpost to an alternate reality. Composed of hive-like edifices with no apparent function, swirly clouds of silver, and a menacingly elongated superhero figure, the mural indicates the distinct styles of the three artists who created it. More
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The Logo is Mightier than the Sword
This compact exhibit of graphic arts explores the political agendas of American social activist movements and the potent symbols used to convey their underlying messages. The historical range of these movements spans abolitionism through gay rights, and includes the United Farm Workers, Black Panthers, AFL-CIO, anarchism, IWW, ecology, nuclear disarmament, feminism, and the Resistance. More
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Community-based projects warrant closer inspection
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Bay Area Now 4 is a real sprawl of an exhibition -- the kind of art show that carries with it the potential to overwhelm in a spatial, sensorial, and even conceptual sense. Many artists seem to have seized this triennial survey as a chance to make a splash, and resulting large-scale installations conquer the walls and floors of both upstairs and downstairs galleries. Aside from the drawings and murals, soundscapes, sculptures, and photographic collages, there lies a host of projects that could easily stand alone as a separate exhibition, a sub-show, if you will, though far from sub-anything in quality. More
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The Brutality of the Everyday
Beautiful Ugly Violence, Margaret Harrison's newest body of work, is the result of her recent residence and collaboration with Intersection for the Arts and is on display through May 8. A pioneer of British feminism, Margaret Harrison's first solo exhibit in 1971 was shut down by British police who deemed the work, particularly an image of Hugh Hefner as a near-nude Playboy bunny girl, "offensive". Her work has continued with a fierce (and, obviously, often funny) feminist critique ever since. More
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A Collaboration of Artists and Poets
"Braided Lives" is a show of paintings and other artworks and the poetry they inspired, currently on exhibit at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. It's the result of intimate dialogs and collaboration between visual artists, mainly from Taos, New Mexico, and writers from various locations around the U.S. Originally a fundraiser organized by the Taos Chamber of Commerce in 2002, the show now appears in San Francisco. Painters and other artists were asked to select certain pieces that became the subjects of poems written by selected poets. Most of the artists and poets collaborated over the internet, sharing feedback and insights. More
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Women invoke the sprit of summer in a group show at Mission art lab
Friday night marks the opening of Bundle at Triple Base Gallery, a group exhibition featuring the work of four women: Tania Bedford, Sera Beak, and Sarah Grierson -- all Californians -- and Alda Rose, who hails from Iceland. In keeping with Triple Base's communal sensibilities, this show possesses a warm, inviting sense about it, as cultivated by the work itself. More
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New Work by Felipe Dulzaides and Robin Rhode
The exhibit features new works by Cuban-born artist Felipe Dulzaides (based in San Francisco) and South African-born Robin Rhode (based in Berlin). Both artists offer an international array of performance, video, photography, and sculptural installation that borrows from a diverse stable of influences and themes from Hip-Hop culture to family water parks. As appraisals of institutions, civic free-for-alls, viewer expectations, and the meaning we invest in objects, the assembled work transforms common objects and familiar places into stylish meditations on place and context. More
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Celebrating 20 Years with a show at CCAC's Logan Galleries
Stepping into the weathered two-tone green bus, my attention was immediately divided. The surroundings were both foreign and familiar; stickers in both Arabic and English abounded, with lived-in details like a rabbit-foot keychain hanging out of the ignition and jangly skeleton hanging on the dashboard. It was Ken Kesey's bus, made for the Middle East. Sunlight flitted through the slats, filtered through different colored shades as one went towards the back of the bus. Time was rendered meaningless by the shades, obscuring any attempt to gauge the light outside. Instead of seats, there were cabins with carefully pasted newspaper comics, enig More
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