Get ready for a big week -- from tonight's finale of the New Humans' takeover of the SF MOMA to Saturday's screening of "Hail the New Puritan" at David Cunningham Projects. A plethora of artist talks, openings, MFA shows, and screenings fills in the rest of the week.

Tuesday:
+ Performance: Charles Atlas, Judith Butler, Mika Tajima/New Humans "TODAY IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL" at SF MOMA

Wednesday:
+ Window Installation by Renee Gertler "The Aura of Craig Baldwin" at A.T.A.

Thursday:
+ Artist Talk: "re:con-figure" at Kala Art Institute

Friday:
+ Screening: Matt Keegan "Postcards and Calendars" at Altman Siegel
+ Elyse Mallouk "Trickle-down: Yours for the Mining" at Triple Base Gallery (Triple Basement)
+ Hilary Pecis "Phantom Content" at Triple Base Gallery
+ "Vernissage for 2009 MFA Graduate Exhibition" at San Francisco Art Institute ( Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center)
+ Bill Basquin , Jane Kim at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )

Saturday:
+ Benefit: Leslie Shows "ON YOUR MARK" Supporting the exhibition programming at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery at Electric Works
+ Lecture: "Collecting the Uncollectable" at Catharine Clark Gallery
+ Screening: "Hail the New Puritan" Charles Atlas' 1984 Documentary on Michael Clark at David Cunningham Projects
+ Screening: Matt Keegan "Postcards and Calendars" at Altman Siegel
+ "WE HAVE A REMEDY" at double punch
+ Lucas Murgida at 667Shotwell

+ Veronica De Jesus "Do the Waive" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery

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+ Bill Basquin , Jane Kim at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
+ Project Room: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Val Britton + Mike Meyers at Johansson Projects

Sunday:
+ "Latent Images" SFAI MFA Graduate Films and Videos at SF MOMA
+ Artist Talk: Reem Rahim "Tempered Fragility" at The Compound Gallery

Tuesday, May 12

+ Performance: Charles Atlas, Judith Butler, Mika Tajima/New Humans "TODAY IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, 7:30pm

Closing reception: Christopher Burch "Folk Blood Water Babies'" at Babylon Falling
Downtown: 1017 Bush Street, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Robert Snowden "The Unpunctual Past?!) The Unpunctual Past(...) The Unpunctual Past(.)" Kala Fellowship Talk at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 7pm

Wednesday, May 13

+ Window Installation by Renee Gertler "The Aura of Craig Baldwin" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, 7-9pm

Thursday, May 14

"Hare & The Hounds 2 Art Preview" at 18 Reasons Gallery
Mission District: 593 Guerrero Street, 7-10pm

SEBASTIÃO SALGADO "Then and Now" at The Hazel Wolf Gallery and the David Brower Center
Sunset: 2150 Allston Way, 6-9pm

Ira Sherman, Artist/Metalsmith "MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE DESIGN FROM A JEWELERS PERSPECTIVE" Metal Arts Guild of Northern California presents at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, 7pm

+ Artist Talk: "re:con-figure" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 7pm

Artist Talk: "Graduate Fellow Artist Talk (Part 1)" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, Eastwing, Building 944, 7:30-9pm

Friday, May 15

+ Screening: Matt Keegan "Postcards and Calendars" at Altman Siegel
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 4pm

"Nude & Erotic Art Show" at Aspect Gallery
Civic Center: 731 Polk Street, 6-9:30pm

"Gold Rush / Controlling the Sublime / Nature Always Wins" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 6-9pm

+ Elyse Mallouk "Trickle-down: Yours for the Mining" at Triple Base Gallery (Triple Basement)
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , floor -1, 7-10pm

+ Hilary Pecis "Phantom Content" at Triple Base Gallery
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 7-10pm

Benefit: "SAVE BIG UMBRELLA" CASH and CARRY at Big Umbrella Studios
Hayes Valley: 906 Divisadero Street, 7pm-12am

+ "Vernissage for 2009 MFA Graduate Exhibition" at San Francisco Art Institute ( Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center)
Marina District: , 7-9pm

Closing reception: "Crossroads: A Group Exhibit of Hunters Point Shipyard Artists" at Art 94124 Gallery
Hunters Point: 3900-B 3rd Street, 6-9pm

+ Bill Basquin , Jane Kim at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, 5-9pm

David Hodge + Hi-Jin Hodge , Joseph Smolinski at Swarm Gallery
Oakland: 560 2nd Street, 6-8pm

Stewart Port "The Tin Can Banjo Project" at Cricket Engine Project Space
Oakland: 499 Embarcadero Avenue, Building #3, 5-9pm

"What We Can Live With: The 39th Annual UC Berkeley M.F.A. Graduate Exhibition" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, 6:30pm

"Moments of Inspiration, How Art Influences each of Us" at A Different Day Gallery
Albany: 1233 Solano Avenue, 6-9pm

Saturday, May 16

+ Benefit: Leslie Shows "ON YOUR MARK" Supporting the exhibition programming at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery at Electric Works
SOMA: 130 8th Street, $40, 6-9pm

Michael Stevens "One Act Plays" at Braunstein/Quay Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, 5-7pm

+ Lecture: "Collecting the Uncollectable" at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 12pm

Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Ken Goldberg at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 1-3pm

Lecture: "Through Future Eyes: The Endurance of Humanity" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $7 regular; $5 students, seniors & teachers; free for YBCA Members, 12-2pm

+ Screening: "Hail the New Puritan" Charles Atlas' 1984 Documentary on Michael Clark at David Cunningham Projects
Downtown: 1928 Folsom Street, 7pm

"The DECCA Years" Iconic Photographs of The Rolling Stones 1962-1971 at San Francisco Art Exchange
Downtown: 458 Geary Street, 7-10pm

+ Screening: Matt Keegan "Postcards and Calendars" at Altman Siegel
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 4pm

+ "WE HAVE A REMEDY" at double punch
Downtown: 1821 Powell Street , 7-Late

Tour: "Hare & The Hounds 2 Scavenger Hunt" at 18 Reasons Gallery
Mission District: 593 Guerrero Street, 1-5pm

+ Lucas Murgida at 667Shotwell
Mission District: 667 Shotwell Street, 8-11pm

"Jet Lag" Exhibition by MEI.collectiv at Mina Dresden Gallery
Mission District: 312 Valencia Street, 6-9pm

+ Veronica De Jesus "Do the Waive" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery Mission District: 365 Valencia street, 4-9pm

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+ Bill Basquin , Jane Kim at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, 1-5pm

Alena Rudolph "Death of a Dream: The Magnificent Failure of our Forefathers" at Rowan Morrison Gallery
Oakland: 330 40th Street, 7-10pm

+ Project Room: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Val Britton + Mike Meyers at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 5-8pm

"Co-Motion" Video Installation by Cheryl Calleri and Thekla Hammond at Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley: 1275 Walnut Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Sunday, May 17

+ "Latent Images" SFAI MFA Graduate Films and Videos at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, Wattis Theater, 1:00 pm - Features Program / 3:30 pm - Shorts Prog

"Body Work" art inspired by the figure at Studio Gallery
Downtown: 1815 Polk Street, 2-6pm

+ Artist Talk: Reem Rahim "Tempered Fragility" at The Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th Street, floor 1, 3-5pm

Artist Talk: "What We Can Live With: The 39th Annual UC Berkeley M.F.A. Graduate Exhibition" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, 3:00pm

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