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As for the local scene, San Francisco Bay Area is action packed with gallery walks in SF for First Thursday and for Oakland's Art Murmur on Friday. 

The Berkeley Art Museum opens the much anticipated James Castle Show with a bonus showing of the artist at Gallery Paule Anglim.

As a lover of printmaking, I can't help but recommend the 2010 San Francisco Fine Print Fair at Fort Mason.

Good luck and have fun in the flurry of events.

Thursday:
+ "Rhythm and Hues: Cloth and Culture of Mali" curated by Cynthia LeCount Samake at The Museum of Craft and Folk Art
+ Bernhard Haertter, Julie Weitz, Taha Balal, Weston Teruya "ASSEMBLED" at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
+ "James Castle" at Gallery Paule Anglim

Friday:
+ "Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking" curated by Hanna Regev, Justin Hoover at SOMArts Cultural Center
+ Lecture: "Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking" curated by Hanna Regev, Justin Hoover at SOMArts Cultural Center
+ Lowell Darling, Maya Hayuk at Gallery 16
+ Screening: "Hunting On The Spring Ice" A film screening in the Curious Cinema series at Studio for Urban Projects
+ Pierre Alain Clauzin "ONCE WE WERE GODS" at Hatch Gallery
+ Dave Trautrimas, Kristina Lewis "Article X" at Johansson Projects

Saturday:
+ Artist Talk: Anthony Discenza "Everything Will Probably Work Out Ok" at Catharine Clark Gallery
+ Performance: Christian Jendreiko "GOTTESRAUSCHEN (GOD'S WHITE NOISE)" Action for Players, Guitars, & Amplifiers curated by James Merle Thomas at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
+ Antistrot "Solid Cold" at White Walls
+ Art Fair: "2010 San Francisco Fine Print Fair" at Fort Mason Center

Sunday:
+ Art Fair: "2010 San Francisco Fine Print Fair" at Fort Mason Center

Monday:
+ Lecture: Shari Frilot "The Power of the Erotic: Curatorial Strategies at Sundances New Frontier" at UC Berkeley (University of California)

Tuesday, February 2

Harvey Rushing, Mike Berninger, Tom Jirasek "Ultra Ultra-Sensitive" at DA Arts Gallery
SOMA: 135 Sixth Street, 7-9pm

Max Sarrazin at Alliance Francaise de SF
Downtown: 1345 Bush Street, 6-8pm

Wednesday, February 3

Christy Langer , Kris Kuksi "Meticulous Engagements" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Thursday, February 4

Lee Harvey Roswell, Marin Camille Hood, Ross Campbell and more, Weston Teruya "Cultural Artifacts" curated by Jessica Wallen at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 7-11pm

+ "Rhythm and Hues: Cloth and Culture of Mali" curated by Cynthia LeCount Samake at The Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, 6-9pm

James Kao "Possible Worlds" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Bernhard Haertter, Julie Weitz, Taha Balal, Weston Teruya "ASSEMBLED" at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, Mezzanine, 5:30-7:30pm

+ "James Castle" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Bradley Castellanos "North Woods" at Marx & Zavattero
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Malick Sidibe "Other Africa" at Bekris Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

"Les Chimeres de Soly Cisse" at Bekris Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Massan Fluker , PEZ "SNAKES IN THE GRASS" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

Donald Fritz, Eric Zener, Kim Cogan, Robert Townsend, Steven Albert "2009 Rewind" at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Artist Talk: Gigi Janchang, JD Beltran, Jim Campbell, Marion Gray "Unexpected Reflections" The Portrait Reconsidered curated by Terri Cohn at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 7:30-9pm

"An American Sound" Dedicated to the memory of Hillary Howard Matthewson at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Kirk Crippens "Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession" at SF MOMA (SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason)
Marina District: 0 Fort Mason Center, 5:30-7:30pm

"Infix: The Grammar of Insertion" at SF MOMA (SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason)
Marina District: 0 Fort Mason Center, 5:30-7:30pm

Friday, February 5

+ "Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking" curated by Hanna Regev, Justin Hoover at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 7-9pm

+ Lecture: "Prints Byte: the cutting edge of printmaking" curated by Hanna Regev, Justin Hoover at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 3-4:30pm

+ Lowell Darling, Maya Hayuk at Gallery 16
SOMA: 501 Third Street, 6-9pm

Kendra Binney, May Ann Licudine, Roland Tamayo, Tin "Whispers" at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

"Love at First Sight" at Artist-Xchange Gallery
Mission District: 3169 16th St, 7-10pm

"NEW WORKS" at Artist-Xchange Gallery
Mission District: 3169 16th St, 7-10pm

Performance: Jim Haynes, N F Orchest, R K Faulhaber, Thomas Carnacki "irr. app. (ext.): The Final Utterance" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $8-$15 sliding scale admission at the door or FREE with membership, 8:30pm, Doors open at 8:00pm

+ Screening: "Hunting On The Spring Ice" A film screening in the Curious Cinema series at Studio for Urban Projects
Mission District: 3579 17th Street, $10-30 (sliding scale), 5:30-8pm

Mike Monteiro , Omar Lee "Text Me Later" at Rare Device
Hayes Valley: 1845 Market Street, 7-9pm

+ Pierre Alain Clauzin "ONCE WE WERE GODS" at Hatch Gallery
Oakland: 492 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 6-10pm

Alan Chin "Time Travel" Journey Through A Dream at Firehouse Collective (Firehouse South)
Oakland: 484 24th Street , 6-9pm

Barbara Holmes, Marie Reich "Lo-Lustre" at The Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

Evan Barbour "O vum" at Forthrite
Oakland: 5857 San Pablo Avenue, 6-9pm

+ Dave Trautrimas, Kristina Lewis "Article X" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 5-8pm

Saturday, February 6

+ Artist Talk: Anthony Discenza "Everything Will Probably Work Out Ok" at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 2pm

+ Performance: Christian Jendreiko "GOTTESRAUSCHEN (GOD'S WHITE NOISE)" Action for Players, Guitars, & Amplifiers curated by James Merle Thomas at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 7-11pm

"Never a Dull Moment" curated by iO Wright at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

+ Antistrot "Solid Cold" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Performance: Gerritt, John Wiese, Lasse Marhuag "23five presents an evening of experimental music" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $8 - $15 sliding scale or FREE with Lab membership, 8:30pm, Doors open at 8:00pm

Josh Ellingson "All The Best," at Mission: Comics & Arts
Mission District: 3520 20th Street, Suite B, 7-10pm

Brice Bischoff, Daniel Faibisoff, Heidi Alletzhauser, Jessica Harrison , Joshua Smith, Lisa Mendelson, Mike Shriver "The Mission Show (part 1)" at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, free, 6-9pm

+ Art Fair: "2010 San Francisco Fine Print Fair" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, Free, 10am-6pm

Erin Yoshi , Pablo Serrano "MEMORIAS DE TI..." A Story of Colombian Resistance at Pueblo Nuevo
Berkeley: 1828 San Pablo Avenue, 7-Midnight

Sunday, February 7

+ Art Fair: "2010 San Francisco Fine Print Fair" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, Free, 10am-6pm

Ashley Eberlein, Erika Meriaux, Nicki Green, Sarah Habba "Body Mind Gender" at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, 5-9pm

Monday, February 8

+ Lecture: Shari Frilot "The Power of the Erotic: Curatorial Strategies at Sundances New Frontier" at UC Berkeley (University of California)
Berkeley: Kroeber Hall, 160 Kroeber Hall, 7:30-9pm

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