Lectures, openings, screenings, auction, drawing swap, and more! From surf movie art show to sounds suites by Nick Cave, take your pick of art events this week, especially on Friday.

Tuesday:
+ Lecture: "Nick Cave in Conversation" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Wednesday:
+ Lecture: Julia Christensen "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture" at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Lecture: Christine Wertheim "The Po(L)etics of Making, and Why Craft Is a Feminist Issue" at California College for the Arts (CCA)

Thursday:
+ Lecture: Trevor Paglen "2008 Seca Award" Tauba Auerbach, Desiree Holman, Jordan Kantor, Trevor Paglen curated by Apsara DiQuinzio at SF MOMA
+ Garth Thompson-Vieira "The Mask of Civilization: Sutures, Schisms and Decay" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
+ Lecture: "Walking the Line" at Headlands Center for the Arts

Friday:
+ Nick Cave "Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Lecture: "Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" curated by Ann Goldstein at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Kent and Kevin Young "Jury Breaks DNA Deadlock" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
+ "SPIRIT RAPPINGS" at Photo Epicenter
+ "The Present" an art show for Thomas Campbell's new surf movie at Mollusk Surf Shop

Saturday:
+ Auction: "Adobe Books 20th Anniversary Art Auction" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery (Southern Exposure)
+ Closing reception: Eliza Fernand "billow / ripple" Silent Auction and CD Release at Fort Gallery

Monday:
+ Lecture: Fabio Gramazio , Matthias Kohler "CCA Architecture Lecture Series" at California College for the Arts (CCA)

Tuesday, March 24

+ Lecture: "Nick Cave in Conversation" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, FREE w/ Gallery Admission, 2pm

Dori Latman, Elinor Diamond, Hilary Schwartz at San Francisco Art Institute (Diego Rivera Gallery)
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Diego Rivera Gallery, 4:30-8pm

? Brynda Glazier, Izumi Yokoyama "Consolation" at San Francisco Art Institute (Swell Gallery)
Potrero Hill: 2565 Third Street, Swell Gallery, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Wednesday, March 25

Auction: "Celebrating Across Cultures" A Benefit for First Exposures at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, $10-50, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Gary Clemenceau, Scott Kiernan, Tobias Tovera at Micaela Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 234, 3-5pm

+ Lecture: Julia Christensen "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, 7:30pm

Tim Roseborough "No One Dies In A Make Believe War" at Scenius Gallery
Mission District: 3150 18th Street , at Treat Avenue, 5-8pm

+ Lecture: Christine Wertheim "The Po(L)etics of Making, and Why Craft Is a Feminist Issue" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Nahl Hall, Free, 7pm

Thursday, March 26

Performance: Josh Kornbluth at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, $5, 7-8:30pm

+ Lecture: Trevor Paglen "2008 Seca Award" Tauba Auerbach, Desiree Holman, Jordan Kantor, Trevor Paglen curated by Apsara DiQuinzio at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, 6:30pm

Workshop: "Papercuts Club" Zine/comic Readings at Studio Gallery
Downtown: 1815 Polk Street, Free, 8pm

+ Garth Thompson-Vieira "The Mask of Civilization: Sutures, Schisms and Decay" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Mission District: 3166 16th Street, 8-10pm

Lecture: Andrew Kudless at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus, 7pm

? "Six Modernists" at Chroma Art Design
Potrero Hill: 218 Mississippi Street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"While It Lasts" at Hatch Gallery
Oakland: 492 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 6-8pm

+ Lecture: "Walking the Line" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, Eastwing Building, 7:30-9pm

Friday, March 27

"Play's Pace" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (PLAySPACE Gallery )
SOMA: 1111 Eigth Street, PLAySPACE Gallery, 6-9pm

+ Nick Cave "Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $12 in advance, $15 at the door, 8-11pm

Screening: "C4 Cinema Series" imPOSSIBLE! 8 Chinese Artists Engage Absurdity at SF Arts Commission Gallery ( Chinese Culture Center)
Downtown: 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, Free, 7pm

Daniel Tousignant, James Scott Geras "WHITEFIELD" at Geras-Tousignant Gallery
Downtown: 437 Pacific Avenue, 5-9pm

+ Lecture: "Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" curated by Ann Goldstein at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free, 5pm

? "Art Show & Persian New Year celebration" curated by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi at City Hall
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, room 282 , (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Kent and Kevin Young "Jury Breaks DNA Deadlock" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, 5:30-7:30 pm

+ "SPIRIT RAPPINGS" at Photo Epicenter
Mission District: 26 Lilac Street, 6-9pm

"Game Over/Continue?" at GRSF (Giant Robot)
Haight Ashbury: 618 Shrader Street , 6:30-10pm

Workshop: "DRAWING SWAP and Flat File KICK OFF" at The Spare Room Project
Bernal Heights: 270 Anderson Street, 7-10pm

+ "The Present" an art show for Thomas Campbell's new surf movie at Mollusk Surf Shop
Sunset: 4500 Irving Street, 7-9pm

Saturday, March 28

Baseera Khan, Stefan Kurten at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

Maria Bonn "Perpetual Possibilities" at Collectively Grasp
North Beach: 850 Greenwich Street , 6-9pm

Auction: "Shifting Paradigms" at Gallery 560
Downtown: 420 Sutter Street, floor 2, 6pm-12am

+ Auction: "Adobe Books 20th Anniversary Art Auction" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery (Southern Exposure)
Mission District: 417 14th Street , at Valencia, 3-8pm

"Stencilada" Stencil Archive and CELLspace present at CELLspace
Mission District: 2050 Bryant Street, 1-5pm

+ Closing reception: Eliza Fernand "billow / ripple" Silent Auction and CD Release at Fort Gallery
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 7-9pm

Auction: "Auction of Asian Artworks to benefit Gamelan Sekar Jaya" at Berkeley City Club
Berkeley: 2315 Durant Avenure, 1-4:45pm

Sunday, March 29

"Hear+Art Proposition" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 4-9pm

Screening: "This is My Land: Ben Rivers' Portraits and Landscapes" SF Cinematheque Presents at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $10 Regular, $6 Student / Teacher / Senior, $6 YBCA and SF Cinematheque Members, 7:30pm

Monday, March 30

+ Lecture: Fabio Gramazio , Matthias Kohler "CCA Architecture Lecture Series" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus, 7pm

"Where the Girls Are: Women Artists Working With Technology" curated by Marcia Tanner at UC Berkeley (University of California)
Berkeley: Kroeber Hall, 7:30-9pm

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