Artcards San Francisco Weekly Update

I must say, as a Californian native, this is the coldest "summer" of my memory.

Luckily for us, there are many interesting art activities this second week of August to help distract us from the fact that our sweaters have migrated out of the closet and onto our backs.
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Creative Growth and Local 123 bring hot art to the fog-laden Bay Area on Thursday, while WE Artspace screens classic cartoons for those in need of cheering up.

The Lab celebrates Friday (the 13th) with an exhibition titled "Black Lab."

Thinking dark - Trevor Paglen talks at The Bayview Opera House as part of the SF MOMA's fascinating program "Infinite City: Right Wing of the Dove," which investigates this region's relationship to the national corporate military complex. Or, think deep with Johanna Drucker's talk, "Reversing Polarity: Aesthetics and Criticism since Adorno," at SFAI.

The Headlands Art Center and ATA provide landscape amusement on Sunday.

See you out there, appropriately attired.

and.....
Artcards Reveiw's -- Weekly Featured Artist(s): Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Timothy Hull and The Accidental Egyptian

Tuesday, August 10

Performance: Gene Mocsy, Matt Weimer "Staged Reading of Oscar Wilde’s Philosophical Dialogue The Critic as Artist" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 7:30pm

Wednesday, August 11

"Imagining the Mission: Pasado, Presente, Futuro" at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, 6:30-9:30pm

Screening: Bassem Yousri "Residency Projects Part I, Film Screenings of documentary films by Bassem Yousri" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 7-9pm

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Thursday, August 12

"What Cannot Be Taken Away: Families and Prisons Project" curated by Evan Bissell at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Book Signing: Mark Ryden "The Snow Yak Show" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, The Schwab Room at SFMOMA, 6:30pm

Screening: Rebecca Solnit, Sandow Birk "In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, Phyllis Wattis Theater, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 7pm

Jeffrey Palladini "Recent Works" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

"The F-Stops Here" at Live Worms
Russian Hill: 1345 Grant Avenue, floor 1, 7-11pm

+ Closing reception: Ariel Diaz at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, 6-9pm

+ "Love Is A Stranger" curated by Leigh Markopolous at Creative Growth
Oakland: 355 24th Street , 5-8pm

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Screening: "The Legacy of the American Absurd" Screening of classic cartoons from Popeye to the Big Bad Wolf at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, 7-9pm

+ Jason Benson "THE FOUR SEASOSNS: A COMEDY ABOUT LEISURE, DEATH, AND DISCONTENT" at Local 123
Berkeley: 2049 San Pablo Avenue, at University Avenue, 7-10pm

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Friday, August 13

+ "Raised in HI-FI" a Netherland solo show at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

"Black Lab" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 7-10pm

Justin Van Hoy "Enjoying A Quiet Sunday Afternoon" at BellJar
Mission District: 3187 16th Street, 6-9pm

Adam Rosendahl, Carla Fisher Schwartz, Devin Miller, Greta Aalborg-Volper, Jory Bidart, Josh Pelletier, Krsta Delosreyes, Mary Marxen, Mathew Zefeldt, Max Hield, Nicholas Chan, Scott French, Sophie Yanow "Vim and Vigor" curated by Mary Marxen at Mission: Comics & Arts
Mission District: 3520 20th Street, Suite B, 8-11pm

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Conrad M. Meyers II "Fault" at Queens Nails Projects
Mission District: 3191 Mission Street, 7-10pm

+ Brian Caraway "IV: Hope Is Always New" at Branch Gallery
Oakland: 455 17th Street, Suite 301, free, 6-9pm

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"Pixar: 25 Years Of Animation" at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street, 6-9pm

+ Performance: "JAMIE STEWART (XIU XIU) and FILM PROGRAM by MAX GOLDBERG" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, $5, 6-9pm

Saturday, August 14

Performance: "DIYbca: A Big Idea Night Production" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, RSVP at www.YBCAFREE.org for guaranteed admittance, 9pm-2am

+ Lecture: Antonia Juhasz, Trevor Paglen "The Bay Area's Military-Industrial Complex" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, Bayview Opera House, 4705 Third Street, San Francisco, 3:15pm

Artist Talk: Stella Zhang "2010 Xian Rui" at Chinese Cultural Center
Downtown: 750 Kearny Street, floor 3, free, 2-3pm

Don Porcella at Alphonse Berber Gallery (Alphonse Berber Projects)
Downtown: 575 Sutter St, Suite 202, 6-9pm

+ Lecture: "Johanna Drucker, Keynote Address" 2010 Art Criticism Conference at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free and open to the public, 7:30pm

David Cook "Epic Battles (On the Mountain at Dawn)" at Shooting Gallery (Gallery Three)
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 2, 7-11pm

Ferris Plock "Rest for the Wicked" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Skinner "This Fear You May Know" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, Free, 7-11pm

"Sideshow Happening" at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, 7-11pm

"August Group Show" at Guerrero Gallery
Mission District: 2700 19th Street, 7-11pm

Artist Talk: "Color en el Barrio: StreetSmARTS Artists Discuss the Muralling of San Francisco" at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, Theater, 5pm

Book launch: Avery Monsen , Jory John "All My Friends Are Dead" at Curiosity Shoppe
Mission District: 855 Valencia Street, 12-7pm

Sunday, August 15

Screening: "Impassioned Eye Film Screening and Ice Cream Social" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, $10 suggested donation, 2pm Social, 3pm Screening

Benefit: "Beads of Change" fundraiser for the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center at a.Muse Gallery
Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, 2-5pm

+ Screening: "Some American Landscapes" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

+ Workshop: "Sunday at Headlands with Jennilie Brewster and Helena Keeffe" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, Free, 12-5pm

Monday, August 16

Performance: "Fat Worm of Error" CD release party! at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $5 – $10 sliding scale or FREE with membership, 6:30pm