Lots of great options this week:

Don't miss "Huckleberry Finn" at the CCA Wattis Institute tonight! Oakland Art Murmur does its monthly appearance this Friday. WE artspace presents SF's Chris Sollars on Sunday. Local 123 opens NY's Christian DeFilippo's show with jams on Monday.

Those of you that grew up in the 1980's, as I did, might appreciate the 40th anniversary showcase of Sesame Street: A Celebration at the YBCA Screening Room.

New on Artcards Review:
- "Featured Artist: Michael Stickrod" by Helen Homan Wu with photos by Carissa Pelleteri
- "Artur Zmijewski Appointed Curator for the 7th Berlin Biennale" by Helen Homan Wu
- "50 Years of Greatest Hits at Pace" a mixed review by Howard Hurst
- "Mel Bochner: Five Artists In One" by Megan Seelie in San Francisco

Finally:
As the California elections near, just a little reminder that the deadline to register is October 18th. A lot is riding on these mid-term elections locally and nationally.

Tuesday:
+ "Huckleberry Finn" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
+ Lecture: Kristee Rosendahl "CCA Graduate Studies Lecture Series" at California College for the Arts (CCA)

Wednesday:
+ Artist Talk: Hank Willis Thomas "Huckleberry Finn" Small Talks at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)

Thursday:
+ Artist Talk: Koki Tanaka "Nothing related, but something could be associated" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Closing reception: Jeremiah Jenkins, Josh Short at Ever Gold
+ "Running the Numbers" at UC Berkeley (David Brower Center)
+ Book launch: "Shaun O’Dell Book Release Party" at Headlands Center for the Arts

Friday:
+ Kerri Lee Johnson "Wanderlust for Wonder's Sake" at The Compound Gallery
+ Lydia Greer "Beauty Forms" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
+ Performance: "Del Sol String Quartet" L@TE: Friday Nights at Berkeley Art Museum

Saturday:
+ Performance: "SHOCK and ORBLESS" curated by Chris Duncan at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
+ Artist Talk: "Yves Béhar & Sam Grawe in Conversation" to mark the closing of TechnoCRAFT at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Artist Talk: Koki Tanaka "Nothing related, but something could be associated" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Screening: Melissa Auf der Maur "Out Of Our Minds" at A.T.A.
+ "Rough Sketch" 4th Annual Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle at Pueblo Nuevo

Sunday:

+ Benefit: "Emergency Summage Sale" Instrument amps, art supplies, folding chairs, and more at 21 Grand

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+ Chris Sollars "ri-FLEKT" at WE artspace

Tuesday, September 28

+ "Huckleberry Finn" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street, 6-8pm

+ Lecture: Kristee Rosendahl "CCA Graduate Studies Lecture Series" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Free, 7pm

Wednesday, September 29

+ Artist Talk: Hank Willis Thomas "Huckleberry Finn" Small Talks at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street, 7pm

Lecture: Tanya Aguiniga "Creating a Craft Identity" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , 7pm

Lecture: Misha Glouberman at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Building, 7pm

Thursday, September 30

Panel Discussion: "Panel Discussion presented by Aperture Magazine" RSVP at info@sfcamerawork.org at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 6-8pm

+ Artist Talk: Koki Tanaka "Nothing related, but something could be associated" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 6-8pm

Screening: Paul Clipson "THE ELEMENTS" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, Phyllis Wattis Theater, $5, 7pm

Louise Fishman and Nathaniel Dorsky at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

"New Paintings by Charles Arnoldi" at Modernism Gallery
Downtown: 685 Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-8pm

+ Closing reception: Jeremiah Jenkins, Josh Short at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

Nancy Calef "Elephant in the Room" at Focus Gallery Russian Hill: 1534 Grant Avenue, floor 1, free, 6-9pm

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Kathleen King, P.K. Frizzell at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 6-9pm

Chris Jordan "Running the Numbers" at David Brower Center
Berkeley: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 , Ground Floor, 6-9pm

+ "Running the Numbers" at UC Berkeley (David Brower Center)
Berkeley: 2150 Allston Way, floor 1, The Hazel Wolf Gallery, 7-9pm

+ Book launch: "Shaun O’Dell Book Release Party" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, 6-8pm

Friday, October 1

Clam Lynch, Kelly Thompson "SFxLA" at 63 Bluxome Street Gallery
SOMA: 63 Bluxome Street , floor 1, 7-10:30pm

Dan McCarthy "The World We Live In" Dan McCarthy solo exhibit at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

"The Plastic Show" Celebrating 500 Plastic Jewelery Designs by Lark Books at Velvet da Vinci
Russian Hill: 2015 Polk Street, 6-8pm

"Layers of Abstraction" at Artist-Xchange Gallery
Mission District: 3169 16th St, 7-10pm

"Beast" at Million Fishes Gallery
Mission District: 2501 Bryant Street, 7-11pm

Book Signing: Theresa Whitehill "A Grammar of Longing" at San Francisco Center for the Book
Potrero Hill: 300 De Haro Street, Free, 7-9pm

Tina Dillman "Organic" at Mama Buzz Cafe
Oakland: 2318 Telegraph Ave (between 23rd St & 24th St) Oakland, CA 94612 , Ground floor, 6-9pm

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

Mark Baugh-Sasaki "Constructed Landscapes" at Krowswork
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance, 6-9pm

"Strangerous" part human, part creature, part abstract=a total surrealist trip curated by Rob Reger at Creative Growth
Oakland: 355 24th Street , 5pm-9pm

Michelle Stitz, Morgaina E. Moore "Augmented Realms" at Vessel Gallery
Oakland: 471 25th Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

+ Kerri Lee Johnson "Wanderlust for Wonder's Sake" at The Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

+ Lydia Greer "Beauty Forms" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, 7-10pm

Misako Inaoka "Guided Growth" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 5-8pm

Victor Cohen Stuart "New Paintings" at Slate Gallery
Oakland: 4770 Telegraph Avenue, at 48th Street, 6-9pm

"Sneakers, Decks, and Knuckle Tats For Reals" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Oakland: 2278 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 6-9pm

+ Performance: "Del Sol String Quartet" L@TE: Friday Nights at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, $7, free for UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff and BAM/PFA members, 5-9pm

Brynn Metheney, Chris Lane, Faye Kendall, J.B. Lowe, Jaime Lakatos, Jon Carling, Lisa Ostapinski, Op, Sharon Eisley "Animal Pop" at Periscope Cellars
Emeryville: 1410 62nd Street , at Hollis Street, Suites B, 6-9pm

Saturday, October 2

"Grand Opening!" Co-hoted with sex+design at Brief Space (Metreon)
SOMA: 101 4th St. San Francisco, 2nd floor, 7-11pm

"ArtLaunch 2010" at ArtSpan
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street , $35-70, 7-10pm

Preview: "ArtLaunch 2010" 35 Years of SF Open Studios at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, $35-50, 7-10pm

+ Performance: "SHOCK and ORBLESS" curated by Chris Duncan at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 6-9pm

Masami Teraoka "Inversion of the Sacred" at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 5-7pm

+ Artist Talk: "Yves Béhar & Sam Grawe in Conversation" to mark the closing of TechnoCRAFT at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Screening Room, $12 Regular, $10 YBCA Member/Student/Senior/Teacher, 6-8pm

+ Artist Talk: Koki Tanaka "Nothing related, but something could be associated" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 2-4pm

Closing reception: Eyal Perry, Lital Dotan The Glasshouse at Marina Abramovic Institute
Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, Free, 7pm

+ Screening: Melissa Auf der Maur "Out Of Our Minds" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 4:30pm

Bert Bergen, Cori Crowley "We Are The Colony Of The Divine Consumption" at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, 6-9pm

Benefit: "Dancing at the Distillery" at Kala Art Institute (St. George Spirits Distillery) Alameda: 2601 Monarch Street, floor 1, $45 in advance; $55 at the door, available online at www.kala.org, 8-11pm

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+ "Rough Sketch" 4th Annual Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle at Pueblo Nuevo
Berkeley: 1828 San Pablo Avenue, 6pm-12am

Sunday, October 3

"SF Open Studios Exhibition" at ArtSpan
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street , SOMArts Main Gallery, Free, 4-7pm

"ArtLaunch 2010" 35 Years of SF Open Studios at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, Free, 4-7pm

Performance: Gojogo, Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch, Clarinet "Jazz at Intersection" Sundays at 2pm at de Young (Golden Gate Park)
Bernal Heights: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Koret Auditorium, Free, 2pm

+ Benefit: "Emergency Summage Sale" Instrument amps, art supplies, folding chairs, and more at 21 Grand Oakland: 416 25th Street, 12-8pm

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+ Chris Sollars "ri-FLEKT" at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, 2-5pm

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