First Thursday comes to the downtown gallery scene with a healthy dose of new shows.

More of a weekend warrior:
Friday night looks hot with the "Sixth Street Art Walk."

Southern Exposure rolls out a exciting summit called "ART PUBLISHING NOW," which highlights all types of art publishing coming out of the Bay Area.
 
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery host's "Passport 2010" on Sunday, which "takes participants on a neighborhood stroll to collect artist-designed “passport stamps” in a special booklet that, once complete, becomes a limited-edition art book with original work by some of the Bay Area’s finest artists, both established and emerging."

Some good looking lectures on Monday.

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See you out there!

New on Artcards Review:
- "Piplotti Rist: Heroes of Birth"
- "The Pseudo-Nym Project"
- "Christian Marclay's Sixty-four Bells"
- "Postcard from Abe's Penny"
- "Electrochroma: A Curated A udiovisual Series at Invisible Dog"

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

Thursday:
+ "Scream With Me" curated by Angela Holmes at 111 Minna Gallery
+ Performance: "Milton with Stanford Improvisors" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
+ Lecture: Koki Tanaka "Nothing related, but something could be associated" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Andrea Dezsö "Things We Think When We Believe We Know" at Frey Norris Gallery
+ Performance: "Sailing Away" Market Street Dance Performance at SF Arts Commission Gallery (Market Street)
+ "Ritual/Habitual" Linking Object, Context, and Action at Creativity Explored

Friday:
+ Screening: Taravat Talepasand "Pearls on the Ocean Floor" at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Closing reception: "Fecal Face Dot Com 10 Year Anniversary Show" at Luggage Store Gallery

Saturday:
+ Conference: "ART PUBLISHING NOW, BAY AREA" at Southern Exposure
+ Screening: Lydia Greer "Beauty Forms" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Sunday:
+ Conference: "ART PUBLISHING NOW, BAY AREA" at Southern Exposure
+ Tour: "Passport 2010" make your own limited-edition art book! at SF Arts Commission Gallery (Patricia's Green Park)

+ Tour: Alex Rosmarin, Alison Offill-Klein, Bryson Gill, Carrissa Bowman, Colter Jacobsen, Davi, Hunter Mack, Kara Joslyn, Kelly Monson, Kevin Clarke, Kevin Scott Haily, Mara Badwin, Matt Decker, Miriam Fagan, Obi Kaufmann, Rachel Kay, Robert Porter, Scott Greenwalt, Steven Barich "Between Gray Areas: Bay Area Graphite on Paper" curated by Kevin Clarke, Obi Kauffmann at MacArthur b arthur

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Monday:
+ Lecture: "Taravat Talepasand" Exploring conflicting Iranian and American mores at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Lecture: Mark Tribe "Performance, Mediation, and the Public Sphere" The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)

Tuesday, October 5

"Feast of Words: A storytelling Potluck" Writers, Foodies and Open Mic. Theme: Healing at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, $10 or a potluck item, 7-9pm

Wednesday, October 6

Judy Pfaff "Tivoli Gardens" at Braunstein/Quay Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, 5-7pm

Edward Saenz, Ron Baylo, Timothy D. Williamson "Sex Fiction" at 111 Minna Gallery SOMA: 111 Minna Street, free, 5-9pm

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

Thursday, October 7

+ "Scream With Me" curated by Angela Holmes at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 21+, 5pm-late

+ Performance: "Milton with Stanford Improvisors" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, Free, 5-8pm

+ Lecture: 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

Performance: Ralph Lemon "How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $30 Reg; $25 YBCA Mem/Stu/Sen/Tea, 8pm

Workshop: "CRAFT BAR with ETSY LABS @ MOCFA SF" at The Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, $5, 6-9pm

Kelly Reemsten "It's My Party" at Adler&Co;
Downtown: 77 geary street, suite #201 san francisco, ca 9410, Second Floor, 6-8pm

Clem Crosby, Stephen Westfall at George Lawson Gallery: Room for Painting Room for Paper
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, at Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Helen Berggruen "Itinerant Regionalist" at George Krevsky Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

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

Book Signing: Angela Fisher, Carol Beckwith "Dinka: Legendary Cattle Herders of Sudan" at Modernbook Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, free, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Andrea Dezsö "Things We Think When We Believe We Know" at Frey Norris Gallery
Downtown: 456 Geary Street, 6-8pm

Stella Zhang "0-Viewpoint" curated by Abby Chen at Chinese Cultural Center
Downtown: 750 Kearny Street, floor 3, 6-9pm

+ Performance: "Sailing Away" Market Street Dance Performance at SF Arts Commission Gallery (Market Street)
Downtown: Market St. between Powell and First streets, San F, 1-5pm everyday

John Held Jr. "Debris From Cultural Underground" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

Indira Martina Morre, Mason Eubanks "PERSISTENT BEHAVIOR - Repetition as Art" at Cain Schulte Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Carolyn Zaroff "Dreamscapes" at Art People Gallery (Crocker Galleria)
Downtown: 50 Post Street, #41, 4-7pm

Alex Kanevsky "Heroes and Animals" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Marianne Kolb "New Work" at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Brett Amory "Oakland Anticipations" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Closing reception: John B. Davis , Sylvain Klaus "Fierce" at Visual Aid
Downtown: 57 Post Street, Suite 905, 5:30-7pm

Performance: Declan Rooney at Marina Abramovic Institute
Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, 6pm

Addie Shevlin "Viewpoints" at Hang Art
Downtown: 556 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

+ "Ritual/Habitual" Linking Object, Context, and Action at Creativity Explored
Mission District: 3245 16th Street, 7-9pm

"18th Hour" Drawing Recollections by Dori Latman at 18 Reasons Gallery
Mission District: 593 Guerrero Street, 7-9pm

Friday, October 8

Art Fair: "Sixth Street Art Walk" at SF Arts Commission Gallery (6th Street)
SOMA: 6th street between Market and Howard, San Francisc, 4-8pm

"2010 Day of the Dead Exhibition" Honoring Revolution with Visions of Healing at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 6-9pm

Performance: "Bad At Sports" curated by Chris Duncan at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 11am-6pm

"Art/Object: Re-contextualizing African Art" at Museum of the African Diaspora
SOMA: 685 Mission Street, floor 1, 7:30pm

Performance: Ralph Lemon "How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $30 Reg; $25 YBCA Mem/Stu/Sen/Tea, 8pm

Closing reception: William Kentridge "Nose" Thirty Etchings at Bekris Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Screening: Taravat Talepasand "Pearls on the Ocean Floor" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 4pm

+ Closing reception: "Fecal Face Dot Com 10 Year Anniversary Show" at Luggage Store Gallery
Civic Center: 1007 Market Street, floor 2, 7-10pm

"Alicia McCarthy" at Jack Hanley Gallery
Mission District: 395 Valencia Street, 6-9pm

"Open Studeios Party" at Secession Art & Design
Castro: 3361 Mission Street, 6:30-9:30

Peter Honig , Tom Franco at Firehouse Collective (Firehouse Nouth)
Berkeley: 1790 Shattuck Avenue, 7-9pm

Saturday, October 9

Judy Pfaff at Braunstein/Quay Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, 3-5pm

Performance: Ralph Lemon "How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $30 Reg; $25 YBCA Mem/Stu/Sen/Tea, 8pm

Workshop: "Make It @ Mocfa" Learn the Mexican Craft of Papel Amate/cut paper at The Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, $5, 11am-1pm

Augustine Kofie "Retrofitted and Other Forms of Vintage Futurism" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, White Walls, Free, 7-10pm

C3, Lucas Soi at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, Free, 7-10pm

+ Conference: "ART PUBLISHING NOW, BAY AREA" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, 11am - 10pm

Reading: "Some Lost Tribes of San Francisco" at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, 8:30pm

Closing reception: "Celebrate!" at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, A special closing celebration of performance, fun and dance for the whole family., 3-6pm

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

Sunday, October 10

Artist Talk: Ralph Lemon "How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, FREE w/ Museum Admission, noon-6pm: Ralph Lemon installation: Meditation

+ Conference: "ART PUBLISHING NOW, BAY AREA" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, 11am - 6pm

+ Tour: "Passport 2010" make your own limited-edition art book! at SF Arts Commission Gallery (Patricia's Green Park)
Hayes Valley: Hayes St and Octavia St San Francisco, CA 94102, Free, passport booklet - $25, 12pm-4pm

+ Tour: Alex Rosmarin, Alison Offill-Klein, Bryson Gill, Carrissa Bowman, Colter Jacobsen, Davi, Hunter Mack, Kara Joslyn, Kelly Monson, Kevin Clarke, Kevin Scott Haily, Mara Badwin, Matt Decker, Miriam Fagan, Obi Kaufmann, Rachel Kay, Robert Porter, Scott Greenwalt, Steven Barich "Between Gray Areas: Bay Area Graphite on Paper" curated by Kevin Clarke, Obi Kauffmann at MacArthur b arthur Oakland: 4030 Martain Luther King Jr Way, floor 1, 1-5pm

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Monday, October 11

+ Lecture: "Taravat Talepasand" Exploring conflicting Iranian and American mores at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 7:30pm

+ Lecture: Mark Tribe "Performance, Mediation, and the Public Sphere" The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)
Berkeley: Near Hearst Street, 3rd Floor , 7:30-9pm

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