Tie your shoes and strap on your looking glasses to get ready for a big week of art engagements.

There are good art talks on Tuesday at Kala Art Institute and Wednesday at SFAI.

Friday brings good furniture/art to Swarm Gallery, great music to Meridian Gallery, good art to Ratio 3 and Silverman Gallery, and an especially secret L@te event at the Berkeley Art Museum.

And finally, Saturday is the kick-off  and re-opening of the Oakland Museum of California with a free 36-hour marathon of events. Good luck!

Tuesday:
+ Artist Talk: Bassem Yousri, Katy Higgins "Kala Fellowship Talk" at Kala Art Institute

Wednesday:
+ Lecture: Walead Beshty "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series" at San Francisco Art Institute

Friday:
+ Performance: "Fred Frith & Theresa Wong" at Meridian Gallery
+ Matt Lipps "Home" at Silverman Gallery
+ Jordan Kantor at Ratio 3
+ Chris Orr, Dorothy Bell, Greg Johnson, Jeff Weathers, Joy Umali, Noah Brezel, "Furniture-ish" Baccalaureate Exhibition at Swarm Gallery
+ Performance: Joseph del Pesco "The Secret Society" at Berkeley Art Museum

Saturday:
+ "Opening Celebration Weekend" at Oakland Museum of California
+ Performance: Helena Keeffe, Joseph del Pesco "Sculpture Garden Carillon" at Oakland Museum of California

+ Lecture: "Women hold up half the sky: Bay Area Posters of the 1970s and 1980s" curated by Lincoln Cushing at Local 123

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Monday:
+ Lecture: Mierle Laderman Ukeles "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series " at San Francisco Art Institute

Tuesday, April 27

Brian Goggin, Bryan Tedrick, Diedre De Franceaux, Francis Baker, Lee Harvey Roswell "Colloquium for The Anxiety Show" at Project One
Potrero Hill: 251 Rhode Island Street, 7-9pm

+ Artist Talk: Bassem Yousri, Katy Higgins "Kala Fellowship Talk" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Free, 7pm

Wednesday, April 28

Marshall Demeranville III, Nebojsa Cvetkovic "Viceverse" Graphisms Exhibition at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Downtown: 55 Taylor Street, $5-$10 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds, 7-11pm

+ Lecture: Walead Beshty "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free, 7:30pm

Screening: Julie Wyman "Strong!" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $7 or free with membership, 7:30pm

"Honors Show" at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)
Berkeley: 0 Kroeber Hall, corner of Bancroft Way and College Avenue, 4-7pm

"Pancake" UC Berkeley Art Practice Honor's' Spring 2010 Show at UC Berkeley (University of California)
Berkeley: Kroeber Hall, 4-7pm

Thursday, April 29

Mi Ju "Landscape and Being" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Civic Center: 66 Gough Street, at Market Street, 7-10pm

Dennis Hoekstra "An Alias and a Taste for Togetherness" at Revolver Haight Ashbury: 136 Fillmore Street, floor 1, Free, 7-9pm

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Screening: "Animation Program Exhibition" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Nahl Hall, 7:30pm

Friday, April 30

+ Performance: "Fred Frith & Theresa Wong" at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, $10 general; $5 students/seniors, 8pm

+ Matt Lipps "Home" at Silverman Gallery
Downtown: 804 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Screening: "Low Lives 2" curated by Jorge Rojas at Galeria de la Raza
Mission District: 2857 24th Street , 5-8pm

Scott Mickelson "PlasticWorks" curated by Lori Shantzis at a.Muse Gallery
Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, Free, 7-11pm

+ Jordan Kantor at Ratio 3
Mission District: 1447 Stevenson Street, 6-8pm

Screening: "Night/Light" Film Program Annual Juried Exhibition at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7-10pm

Samuel Carr-Prindle, Samuel Michael Casebolt, Sarah K.Wonson "Works On Paper" at The Spare Room Project
Bernal Heights: 270 Anderson Street, 7-10pm

"Furniture-ish" at Swarm Gallery
Oakland: 560 2nd Street, 6-8pm

+ Chris Orr, Dorothy Bell, Greg Johnson, Jeff Weathers, Joy Umali, Noah Brezel, "Furniture-ish" Baccalaureate Exhibition at Swarm Gallery
Oakland: 560 2nd Street, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Performance: Joseph del Pesco "The Secret Society" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 5-9pm

Saturday, May 1

Performance: "May Day: 3 Nights of Performance to Benefit CounterPULSE" at CounterPULSE
SOMA: 1310 Mission Street, $25-$200, 8-11pm

Benefit: "May Day: 3 Nights of Performance to Benefit CounterPULSE" at CounterPULSE
SOMA: 1310 Mission Street, $25-$200, 8-11pm

Closing reception: Elizabeth Bernstein, Ryan Hendon "Complex: or, if a metaphysician couldn’t draw, what would he think?" at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 9pm

Patrick Wilson "The View From My Deck" at Marx & Zavattero
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5-8pm

Nathan Stapley, Scott Campbell "Amicus Monstrum" at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

"Passing Through" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

"Faces in the Mirror & Transitions" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Blek le Rat & Above at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Ben Walker at Mission: Comics & Arts Mission District: 3520 20th Street, Suite B, 7-10pm

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Adam Vermeire, Bobby Lukas, Chris Fraser, Dana Hemenway, Doug G. Williams, Joey Castor, Kate Stirr, Kija Lucas, Monica Lundy, Nic Buron "Between You and Me" MFA Thesis Exhibition at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, 6-9pm

+ "Opening Celebration Weekend" at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street, Free, 31 hours

+ Performance: Helena Keeffe, Joseph del Pesco "Sculpture Garden Carillon" at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street, Midnight

+ Lecture: "Women hold up half the sky: Bay Area Posters of the 1970s and 1980s" curated by Lincoln Cushing at Local 123 Berkeley: 2049 San Pablo Avenue, at University Avenue, 5pm

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Sunday, May 2

Closing reception: Tina Dillman & Naaman Rosen, Vanessa Woods & Josh Smith "Intersection" at 21 Grand
Oakland: 416 25th Street, 3-6pm

Monday, May 3

+ Lecture: Mierle Laderman Ukeles "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series " at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free, 7:30pm

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