For some this is the second Artcards Weekly Update, we apologize for the glitch that sent out last week's message in advance of this one.

Back to the shows, there are a whole lot of them as we usher in May with First Thursday in San Francisco and First Friday in Oakland, plus the beginning of MFA Thesis season!

Some highlights:
Louise Bourgeois at Gallery Paule Anglim
Both the MFA and Curatorial Practice Thesis Shows at CCA (might be a mob scene)
A group video show at Jancar Jones Gallery
"Beyond Bicycles" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective (interactive and kid-friendly)
Matthew Palladino at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
and
Curator Dan Cameron (of the New Orleans Biennial, Prospect 1) talks at Kala Art Institute

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Tuesday:
+ Book launch: Megan Prelinger "Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-62" at The Booksmith

Thursday:
+ Jim Campbell "New Work" at Hosfelt Gallery
+ Louise Bourgeois "Mother and Child" at Gallery Paule Anglim
+ "2010 MFA Exhibition" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
+ Christine Wong Yap, David Horvitz, Jason Mena, Lawrence Weiner, Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Red76, Roman Ondak, Sandra Nakamura, Tercerunquinto, Zachary Royer Scholz "We have as much time as it takes" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)

Friday:
+ Anne Eastman, Guthrie Lonergan, Hayley Silverman, Maggie Foster at Jancar Jones Gallery
+ "Beyond Bicycles" curated by Mark Nicola at Rock Paper Scissors Collective

Saturday:
+ Matthew Palladino at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
+ Lecture: "Kala’s 2010 lecture series" curated by Dan Cameron at Kala Art Institute

Tuesday, May 4

+ Book launch: Megan Prelinger "Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-62" at The Booksmith
Haight Ashbury: 1644 Haight Street, floor 1, 7:30pm

Wednesday, May 5

Danae Anderson "Girl in Light with Hands" at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
SOMA: 525 2nd Street, 5:30-7:30pm

"17th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale" at SF MOMA (SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason)
Marina District: 0 Fort Mason Center, $10 (preview reception), 6-9pm

Thursday, May 6

"(re-)claim)" presented by APICC as part of its 13th Annual United States of Asian America Festival curated by Jennifer Banta , Pamela Wu Kochiyama at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 5-8pm

Arthur Bell at Garage Gallery
SOMA: 655 Bryant, Garage, 5-8pm

+ Jim Campbell "New Work" at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 5-7:30pm

Andreas Trolf, Aubrey Erickson, Beaston, Bo Himlich, Chris Sullivan, Cody Cochrane, David Cook, Jake Watling , Jason Vilvona, Johnny Bonnel, Mario Wagner, Milldred, Rob Reger, Stella Huntenburg, Tim Shaffer, Vladimir Kato, Will Laren "Excellent Condition" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 5pm-midnight

Jennifer Karady "In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 5-8pm

Christopher Sims "Theater of War: Pretend Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 5-8pm

Screening: "75 Years in the Dark: Portraits of Women" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission, 7pm

Alan Ebnother, Masaru Kurose, Nancy Haynes at George Lawson Gallery: Room for Painting Room for Paper
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, at Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Teo Gonzalez at Brian Gross Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Jason Newsted, JP Long curated by Micaela Van Zwoll at Micaela Gallery Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 234, open to the public, 5:30-7:30pm

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Hayv Kahraman "Waraq" at Frey Norris Gallery
Downtown: 456 Geary Street, 6-8pm

+ Louise Bourgeois "Mother and Child" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Joe Thurston at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Elena Dorfman "The Pleasure Park" at Modernism Gallery
Downtown: 685 Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-8pm

Chris Ritson, Erik Wilson, Josh Roberts, Shalo P., Shemoel Recalde "Windouus" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

Michael Beck "Still Life" at Visual Aid
Downtown: 57 Post Street, Suite 905, 5-7:30pm

Leanne C. Miller "Family Ties" at Cafe Royale
Downtown: 800 Post Street, 8pm-midnight

Saeed Shahabi at Art People Gallery (Crocker Galleria)
Downtown: 50 Post Street, #41, 4-7pm

Kelly Detweiler at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Hugo Kobayashi "Nothing for Something" at Hang Art (HANG ART )
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Performance: Bonnie Banks "Brutal Sound Effects Festival #68" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 8-11pm

Evan Caminiti "Dust" at Tartine
Mission District: 600 Guerrero Street , 9-11pm

+ "2010 MFA Exhibition" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , 6-9pm

+ Christine Wong Yap, David Horvitz, Jason Mena, Lawrence Weiner, Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Red76, Roman Ondak, Sandra Nakamura, Tercerunquinto, Zachary Royer Scholz "We have as much time as it takes" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street, 6-9pm

? Cp-37 at Hatch Gallery
Oakland: 492 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Friday, May 7

"Reframe: Making Sense of Waste" curated by Hanna Regev at Arc Studios & Gallery
SOMA: 1246 Folsom Street, 7-10pm

CernYMI, Ces, Cope2, Cycle, Doze Green, Greg Haberny, Hydro74, Keo Tc5, Mare139, Morning Breath, Pure TFP, Queen Andrea, Shepard Fairey, Siloette, Trustocorp, Wane "Graphic Attack!" curated by Andrea von Bujdoss, Melissa McCaig Welles at 1AM Gallery
SOMA: 1000 Howard Street, 6-10pm

Reading: Greg Tate, Renee Green "The Writings of Renée Green" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Free w/ gallery admission, 6-8pm

"Mother of all Mothers Art Installation" at DA Arts Gallery SOMA: 135 Sixth Street, Free, 5-7pm

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Performance: "Phillip Greenlief with Tatsuya Nakatani Lisa Mezzacappa with Noah Phillips" at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, $10 general; $5 students/seniors, 8pm

Seth Papac at Velvet da Vinci
Russian Hill: 2015 Polk Street, 6-8pm

Boris Bally at Velvet da Vinci
Russian Hill: 2015 Polk Street, 6-8pm

"Wine and Dine" at Artist-Xchange Gallery
Mission District: 3169 16th St, 7-10pm

+ Anne Eastman, Guthrie Lonergan, Hayley Silverman, Maggie Foster at Jancar Jones Gallery
Mission District: 965 Mission Street, Suite 120, 6-9pm

Matte Stephens at Rare Device
Hayes Valley: 1845 Market Street, 7-9pm

Charlie Callahan, David Muller, Jeff Canham, Jeff Mason, Serena Mitnich-Miller "Habitat" at Park Life
Richmond District: 220 Clement Street, 7-10pm

Kana Tanaka "Kagami" at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Charlie Milgrim, Eric Bohr at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 6-9pm

E. Morrow Howe "Beards & Bellies: Art on Gender, Sexuality & Ladyhood" at Farley's East Oakland: 33 Grand Avenue, floor 1, 7-9pm

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Alena Rudolph "Blessed Migrations" at Forthrite
Oakland: 5857 San Pablo Avenue, 6-9pm

Christina Corfield, Keer Tanchak "The Velveteen Order" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 5-8pm

+ "Beyond Bicycles" curated by Mark Nicola at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Oakland: 2278 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 6-9pm

Saturday, May 8

+ Matthew Palladino at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 4-7pm

"In Space with Birds" curated by Lindsay Stegeman-Levesque, Michelle K. Lynch at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 7:30pm

Art Fair: "Young at Art" at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, Various Times, Check website.

Carlos Castro, Chris Granillo, Christina Velasquez, Emael, Hector Dio Mendoza, Johanna Poethig, Jose Antonio Suarez, Jose Arenas, Joshua Short, Lady Reni, Marilyn Yu, Rio Yanez, Robert Trujillo "Mad World" at Galeria de la Raza Mission District: 2857 24th Street , 7:30pm

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Amir Esfahani, David Fiveash, David Gremard Romero, Michael McConnell, Steven Vasquez Lopez "Graphic Nature" at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, 6-9pm

Open Studio: "MFA Open Studios" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, 12-5pm

+ Lecture: "Kala’s 2010 lecture series" curated by Dan Cameron at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, $5, 2pm

Sunday, May 9

"Delicious" work inspired by food & drink at Studio Gallery
Downtown: 1815 Polk Street, 2-6pm

Marcela Florez "A Passage Through Time" at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, 5-9pm

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