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Sat, November 21 - Day of the Dead: Bring Back the Dead at MCCLA

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco's Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts celebrates Dia de los Muertos with the exhibit Bring Back the Dead with altars and installations by the Rivera Family, Larry Reed, Favianna Rodriguez, and many others. There will also activities for families at the gala reception on November 2 (starting at 6pm) as well as workshops scheduled throughout the exhibition.

Sat, November 21 - Michael Arcega: The Collaspe at Marx & Zavattero

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The solo exhibition of San Francisco-based artist Michael Arcega presents a multi-dimensional installation that explores a meditative post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Arcega uses humor in his sculptures to deal with episodes of power, tragedy, human folly, and recently, the possibilities of renewal.

Sat, November 21 - From Their Studios: Stanford University

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

This exhibition includes 48 works by 13 artists who teach studio art at Stanford University: Kevin Bean (painting), Matt Kahn (paintings/design), Terry Berlier (sculpture and media), Jan Krawitz (film), Enrique Chagoya (paintings, prints, and mixed media), Joel Leivick (photography), Robert Dawson (photography), Jamie Meltzer (film), Paul DeMarinis (interactive new media), Kristine Samuelson (film), John Edmark (interactive kinetic sculpture), Gail Wight (new media), and Lukas Felzmann (photography).

Sat, November 21 - Fernando Botero the Abu Ghraib Series

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Latin American artist's collection of paintings and drawings that shows the horrors of prisoner abuse is now on display at the Berkeley Art Museum.

Sat, November 21 - 'Moby Dick' at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

A group of 32 international artists (including Damian Ortega, Angela Bulloch, Paulina Olowska, and Richard Serra), working across multiple media (from sculpture to film, video, drawing, and photography), present works related to Herman Melville's epic novel. More than half of the participating artists have created new works specifically for this show in response to the novel's wide-ranging and evocative themes. The exhibition will also feature numerous historical artifacts and documents.

Sat, November 21 - A Sense of Place: Location/Inspiration at the de Saisset Museum

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The works in this group exhibition represent are executed in a variety of media, most of the pieces represent actual locales that one can find on a map. For some artists, such as Michael Mazur, Nathan Oliveira, and Gregory Edwards, the objective was to capture a feeling, rather than specific geographic details. Photo: detail of Thomas Moran's East Hampton, Long Island.

Sat, November 21 - Ruth Asawa: Interstices: Sculpture and Drawings

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

This exhibit includes Ruth Asawa's crochet wire sculptures and works on paper. For more than forty years, Asawa has pushed her materials (like paper, wire, clay, concrete, fiber, steel, and bronze) in directions that challenged not only their physical attributes but also their traditional dimensional placement on pedestal, wall, and floor -- ultimately hanging or suspending the works to activate the spaces surrounding them.

Sat, November 21 - Andrea Higgins - 'Appearance'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

For nearly ten years Andrea Higgins has painted conceptual 'portraits' by representing people as textiles from their wardrobes. The paintings are optical, abstract compositions. Every fiber is represented by a brush stroke and each stroke is built up, one color upon another, layer over layer, to create a three-dimensional mark. Opening reception on October 24 from 4-6pm.

Sat, November 21 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Evolution of a Painter

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been painting and drawing for as long as he has been writing. This solo exhibition is the first to take a retrospective view, giving insight into Ferlinghetti's development as a visual artist over six decades.

Sat, November 21 - One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Featuring the work of eight artists living in Tehran, Iran (Nima Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh, Mohammad Ghazali, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Abbas Kowsari, Mehran Mohajer, Neda Rezavipour, and Homayoun Sirizi) alongside new work by San Francisco-based artist Taraneh Hemami, this exhibition compiles a collective narrative of everyday Tehran, the largest city in the Middle East and the 16th most populated city in the world with close to 8 million residents. The artists chronicle narratives of place and time, demystifying life in a country that has been misunderstood and maligned for decades.

Sat, November 21 - Celebrating 50 Years of the SF Mime Troupe

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

This exhibit includes photographs, props, costumes, scripts, and other eccentric ephemera culled from the San Francisco Mime Troupe's vast archive. Leading a path to the Yerba Buena exhibit will be a street gallery of troupe's photographs, featured in display windows along the Mission Street side of the Fifth & Mission Parking Garage, between 4th and 5th Streets. Hours: Thursday & Friday from 2-8pm; Saturday from 12-8pm; Sunday from 12-6pm; First Tuesdays from 12-8pm.

Sat, November 21 - Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

See the 3,000-year-old 'boy king' Tutankhamun along with over 100 artifacts from his tomb and ancient Egypt in this traveling exhibit.

Sat, November 21 - Smuin Ballet Fall Program at Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Smuin Ballet's Fall Program opens with a world premiere by choreographer-in-residence Amy Seiwert, accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning group Kronos Quartet's album Pieces of Africa. The program continues with Michael Smuin's 'Medea,' and 'Fly Me to the Moon,' which pays homage to the songs made famous by Frank Sinatra.

Sat, November 21 - San Francisco Jazz Fest

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The San Francisco Jazz Festival is a two-week celebration with jazz concerts, from the classic to the avant-garde, gathering the legends of today and the rising stars of tomorrow in venues throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area. Check their site for for times and venues: sfjazz.org.

Mon, November 23 - Insights 2009: 20 Years of Creative Vision

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Insights 2009 celebrates 20 years of works by blind and visually impaired artists, featuring 118 works in a variety of media by 38 artists, and offers a free audio tour -- with voiceovers provided by locals like Harry Denton of the Starlight Room, Mattin Noblia of Top Chef Season 6 and District 4 Supervisor Carmen Chu, and Lyrics Born bass player Uriah Duffy. Photo: Haley Goodlett's Abalone from Insights 2008.

Mon, November 23 - Then and Now - Photography of Sebastiao Salgado

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

This exhibition in the new David Brower Center presents a selection of images spanning a career in documentary photography by Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado. His black and white images tell the story of an era, tracing the human and environmental impacts of modern industrial civilization through the lives of workers, the rural poor and the displaced.

Wed, November 25 - Altered States: The Collection in Context

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Among the many themes embedded in the di Rosa's extensive collection, the notion of spirituality -- or at least an altered state of consciousness -- is discernable in the work of a number of artists. In addition to presenting artworks from the di Rosa collection, the show introduces works that address the metaphysical by other contemporary Bay Area artists. Artists include: Lynne-Rachel Altman, Jim Campbell, Bruce Conner, Linda Connor, Lewis deSoto, Robilee Frederick, David Ireland, Keira Kotler, Therese Lahaie, Richard Misrach, Robert Moon, David Simpson, Travis Somerville, Elizabeth Sunday, Michele Theberge, and Darren Waterston.