Tuesday, August 9th
August is ripe with opportunities to experience the omnipresent creative flow.  If your looking for some inspiration to wake the muse the San Francisco Art Institute is hosting a reading, "Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist", the 25th Annual Art Criticism Conference.  Just walking around the SFAI campus is muse enough.  You can catch happenings all week at the Conference.

Wednesday, August 10th
Project One is hosting 'entitled', work of fashion and work inspired by fashion including artwork and sculptures.

Friday August 12th
"Explorations of San Francisco Realism" at Art Explosion Studios, realities of San Francisco by painters sharing communal space in the Mission.

Saturday August 13th
"Dirty Pictures" featuring the work of painter Timothy Bergstom and photographer Nathaniel Ward is impure and incites lust - great for that first internet date.  At Hungryman Gallery

A day without art is a day mired in the mundane.

See you out there.

Tuesday:
+ Reading: "Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist" 25th Annual Art Criticism Conference at San Francisco Art Institute

Thursday:
+ Conference: ""Growing Up an Art Critic": Bill Berkson in conversation with Jeannene Przyblyzki" 25th Annual Art Criticism Conference at San Francisco Art Institute

Friday:

+ Frank Theophani Callozzo at The Maltese Embassy

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+ Conference: "Molly Nesbit" 25th Annual Art Criticism Conference at San Francisco Art Institute

Saturday:

+ Nathaniel Ward, Timothy Bergstrom "Dirty Pictures" at Hungryman Gallery

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Tuesday, August 9

+ Reading: "Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist" 25th Annual Art Criticism Conference at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 7:30pm

Performance: Alex Fager, Dylan Mattingly, Eli Wirtschafter "Gravity and Grace" at Berkeley Arts Festival
Berkeley: 2133 University Avenue, floor 1, 8pm

Wednesday, August 10

Mission Voices Summer Students "The Unreal World: Mission Voices Summer 2011 Exhibition" curated by Aidah Aliyah Rasheed, Lindsay Ellen Howland, Robert Minervini, Tara Foley at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 6-8pm

Thursday, August 11

+ Conference: ""Growing Up an Art Critic": Bill Berkson in conversation with Jeannene Przyblyzki" 25th Annual Art Criticism Conference at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 7:30pm

Friday, August 12

+ Frank Theophani Callozzo at The Maltese Embassy SOMA: 66 6th Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

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Nicole Aptekar "Construction" at The Maltese Embassy
SOMA: 66 6th Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

Performance: Finley Coyl, Mary Franck "Permutae | Reception" at CounterPULSE SOMA: 1310 Mission Street, $10-$20, 8pm

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+ Conference: "Molly Nesbit" 25th Annual Art Criticism Conference at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free, 7:30pm

Laura Zuspan "Eco Sexy" at The Lab Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 7-10pm

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Kelly Lynn Jones, Lucas Murgida, Mel Day, Miriam Dym, Natasha Wheat, Sasha Petrenko, Scott Hender "Pieces-Of-You-Topia" at The Lab Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 7-10pm

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"The American Craft Council Show" at Public Glass
Hunters Point: 1750 Armstrong Street, 3-8pm

Reading: Howard Zalkin, Kishma Patnaik, Pamela Holm, Sean Craven, W. Ross Ayers "Lip Service West" at San Pablo Arts District Fund (at Clay School of Ceramics )
Oakland: 5512 San Pablo Avenue , sidewalk, 7-9pm

Saturday, August 13

Workshop: "Make It @ MOCFA" at Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, $5, 2-4PM

+ Nathaniel Ward, Timothy Bergstrom "Dirty Pictures" at Hungryman Gallery Mission District: 485 14th Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

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Performance: Kelly Lynn Jones, Lucas Murgida, Mel Day, Miriam Dym, Natasha Wheat, Sasha Petrenko, Scott Hender "Pieces-Of-You-Topia" at The Lab Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 6-8pm

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Amanda Curreri, Carissa Potter, Cathy Fai, Christi Baker, Christy Chan, Colleen Mulvey, Cybele Lyle, Evan Engstrom, George Pfau, Hannah Ireland, Helen Lee, Joe Melamed, Johanna Barron, Llewelynn Fletcher, Luca N Antonucci, Matthew Marchand, Nancy de Y. Elkus, Peter Belkin "Over My Dead Body: A Collaborative Installation About Artistic Survival" curated by Hava Liberman, Laura Boles Faw at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, Suggested Donation, 7-10pm

Deborah O'Grady, Gérman Herrera, Janet Delaney, Kirk Crippens , Luis Delgado, Niniane Kelley, Philipp Striebe, Rachel Phillips "ReGeneration: Eight Contemporary Photographers Defy the Generation Gap" at a.Muse Gallery Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, 5:30-9pm

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Eric Bohr "Levant" at Mercury 20 Gallery Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 2-6pm

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Artist Talk: Eric Bohr "Levant" at Mercury 20 Gallery Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 2pm

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Paul Mueller "Blood on the Church Hall Floor" at Mercury 20 Gallery Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 2-6pm

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Artist Talk: Paul Mueller "Blood on the Church Hall Floor" at Mercury 20 Gallery Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 2pm

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Sunday, August 14

and others, Chris Treggiari, James Gregg, John Urquhart, Miranda Bergman, Peter Foucault "Mobile Arts Platform Pop-Up Wrap-Up Exhibition" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 1-5pm

Group Exhibition "City Streets: Urban Views of the Bay Area" at Studio Gallery Downtown: 1815 Polk Street, 2-6pm

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