Great week ahead. Thursday will be the biggest day thanks to the monthly downtown gallery walk and openings sprinkled around San Francisco. On Friday, Oakland has their uptown gallery walk, Art Murmur, which usually has a big turn out and is good for seeing people as well as art. For the literary-minded, Litquake starts this week, there will be many art spaces participating. Other treats, Kadist's artist talk tomorrow and Sight School on Saturday. Enjoy!

Tuesday:

+ Alec Soth, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans, Catherine Opie, Collier Schorr, Dorothea Lange, Esther Bubley, Gordon Parks, Hank Willis Thomas, Jack Delano, John Vachon, Katy Grannan, Larry Clark, Marion Post Wolcott, Marjory Collins, Martha Rosler, Roe Ethridge, Russell Lee, Sharon Lockhart, Stephen Shore, Walead Beshty, Walker Evans, William E. Jones "More American Photographs" curated by Jens Hoffmann at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)

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+ Cecilia Edefalk, Clare Rojas , Fred Tomaselli, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, Jordan Kantor, Laura Owens, Laylah Ali, Maaike Schoorel, Marcel Dzama, Michael Borremans, Michael van Ofen, Norbert Schwontkowski, Raqib Shaw, Wilhelm Sasnal "Painting Between the Lines" curated by Jens Hoffmann at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)

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Wednesday:
+ Lin Yilin curated by Hosted by Hou Hanru at Kadist Art Foundation

Thursday:
+ Workshop: Leanne Prain, Siobhan Long "Craft Bar with Etsy Labs" at Museum of Craft and Folk Art
+ Allan deSouza, Angus Forbes, Antonio Cortez & Rosa Maria Alfaro, Brooke Holve, Enrique Chagoya , Farley Gwazda, Guillermo Bert, Jim Campbell, Justin Hover, Lisa Blatt, Michael Bartalos, Rodney Ewing, Roni Feldman, Scott Kildal, Sean Fletcher, Sherry Karver, Taraneh Hemami "Keeping an Eye on Surveillance" curated by Hanna Regev at Performance Art Institute
+ "Hands On Clay" A motley crew of ceramics from the studio at Creativity Explored

Friday:
+ Adam Katseff, Angela Willetts, Ashley Lauren Saks, Brice Bischoff, Eric Larson, Jennifer Campbell, Kevin Seaman, Leeza Doreian, Michael Namkung, Nicole Fein, Scott Kildall, Surabhi Saraf, Todd Anderson, Yuki Maruyama "Time" at The Lab

Saturday:

+ Dean Smith, Elisheva Biernoff, Joshua Churchill, Lindsey White, Matthew Kennedy, Richard Misrach, Sean McFarland "Better a Live Ass Than a Dead Lion" at Eli Ridgway Gallery

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+ Pakayla Biehn "(t)here" at Gallery Hijinks

+ Ajit Chauhan, Kevin Killian "Don’t Be Upset" at Sight School

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Tuesday, October 4

+ Alec Soth, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans, Catherine Opie, Collier Schorr, Dorothea Lange, Esther Bubley, Gordon Parks, Hank Willis Thomas, Jack Delano, John Vachon, Katy Grannan, Larry Clark, Marion Post Wolcott, Marjory Collins, Martha Rosler, Roe Ethridge, Russell Lee, Sharon Lockhart, Stephen Shore, Walead Beshty, Walker Evans, William E. Jones "More American Photographs" curated by Jens Hoffmann at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries) Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street, 6-8pm

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+ Cecilia Edefalk, Clare Rojas , Fred Tomaselli, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, Jordan Kantor, Laura Owens, Laylah Ali, Maaike Schoorel, Marcel Dzama, Michael Borremans, Michael van Ofen, Norbert Schwontkowski, Raqib Shaw, Wilhelm Sasnal "Painting Between the Lines" curated by Jens Hoffmann at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries) Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street, 6-8pm

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Wednesday, October 5

+ Lin Yilin curated by Hosted by Hou Hanru at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 2401 Folsom Street, at 20th Street, floor 1, Free, Cocktails at 6pm, program at 7pm sharp

Thursday, October 6

Gioi Tran "Woven Reflections" at ArtHaus
SOMA: 411 Brannan Street , 6-8pm

Jim Dirschberger, Rob Reger, Winston Smith "Born Again Again" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 5-11:30pm

"Dirty Comics - An Exhibition of Erotic Comic Art" at Center for Sex and Culture
SOMA: 1519 Mission Street, 6-9pm

Screening: Bala "Naan Kadavul (I Am God)" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 7pm

+ Workshop: Leanne Prain, Siobhan Long "Craft Bar with Etsy Labs" at Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, $5.00, 6-8pm

Kirkman Amyx "Chance, Probability and Temporality" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Jerry Uelsmann, Maggie Taylor "Maggie & Jerry" at Modernbook Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

John Zurier at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Lucas Soi "We Bought the Seagram Building" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-10pm

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

Mike Elsass "The Color of Energy" at Art People Gallery (Crocker Galleria)
Downtown: 50 Post Street, #41, 4-7pm

Irena Kononova "Calm and Tempest" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

"Black and White" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Lalla Essaydi "Les Femmes Du Maroc" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Katherine B. Young, Liz Maxwell "Oscillating Landscapes" at Hang Art
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

+ Allan deSouza, Angus Forbes, Antonio Cortez & Rosa Maria Alfaro, Brooke Holve, Enrique Chagoya , Farley Gwazda, Guillermo Bert, Jim Campbell, Justin Hover, Lisa Blatt, Michael Bartalos, Rodney Ewing, Roni Feldman, Scott Kildal, Sean Fletcher, Sherry Karver, Taraneh Hemami "Keeping an Eye on Surveillance" curated by Hanna Regev at Performance Art Institute
Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, Free, 6-8pm

Barbara Hazen, David Pace, Dennis Hearne, Gary Yost, Jackson Nichols, Jeffrey Michaels, Jin Zhu, Joshua Smith, Karen Massing, Kristen Perkins, Lisa Levine, Neeley Main, Raphael Villet, Robert Cortlandt, Robyn Twomey, Sarah Christianson, Sarah Podles, Shane Powers, Yoni Klein "You Look Familiar" at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, 5:30-7:30pm

Barbara Hazen, David Pace, Dennis Hearne, Jackson Nichols, Jeffrey Michaels, Joshua Smith, Karen Massing, Kristen Perkins, Lisa Levine, Neeley Main, Raphael Villet, Robert Cortlandt, Robyn Twomey, Sarah Christianson, Sarah Podles, Shane Powers, Yoni Klein "You Look Familiar" Presented by the SFAC Gallery Art in City Hall Program and PhotoAlliance at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Mary Fernando Conrad "Immaterial" at icTus gallery
Mission District: 1769 15th St., Albion, 6-10pm

+ "Hands On Clay" A motley crew of ceramics from the studio at Creativity Explored
Mission District: 3245 16th Street, 7-9pm

Abel Rodriguez, Aiofe Crofts, Beth Davila Waldman, Corey Best, Eran Dayan, Eric Schultz, Jason Rivera, Jon Fischer, Kaiya Rainbolt, Karrie Hovey, Keith DeNatale, Kristen Smith, Mary Grisely, Melanie Treuhaft, Michelle Guintu, Reddy Lieb, Richard Castaneda, Rosa Boshier, Vanesa Gingold "The Unresolved" at CELLspace
Mission District: 2050 Bryant Street, 7-11pm

"Ceramics Annual of America 2011" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, 5:30-9pm

Friday, October 7

"COLLECTED: Stories of Acquisition and Reclamation" at Museum of the African Diaspora
SOMA: 685 Mission Street, floor 1, 7:30-9pm

Jonathan Runcio "Wide Wide Run" at The Popular Workshop
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, floor 1, 6-10pm

Ann Whittall, Jessica Levant, Pam Borrelli, Wendell Shinn "3 shes + 1 he photo exhibit" at Live Worms
Russian Hill: 1345 Grant Avenue, floor 1, 4-9pm

"Wayfarer" at Public Works
Mission District: 161 Erie Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, First Floor, 6-9pm

+ Adam Katseff, Angela Willetts, Ashley Lauren Saks, Brice Bischoff, Eric Larson, Jennifer Campbell, Kevin Seaman, Leeza Doreian, Michael Namkung, Nicole Fein, Scott Kildall, Surabhi Saraf, Todd Anderson, Yuki Maruyama "Time" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 6-9pm

Alexis Arnold "New Work" curated by Amber Jean Young at Cafe Sophie
Castro: 3463 16th Street, floor 1, 7-9pm

Charlie Milgrim, Julianne Wallace Sterling, Kerry Vander Meer at Mercury 20 Gallery Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 6-9pm

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Brice Bischoff, Ellen Black, Tabitha Soren "Art Murmur at Johansson Projects" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 5-8pm

Billy Sprague "Immersive Installation Made Up Of Over 100 Space Themed 12" Record Albums With Live Synth Soundscapes By Gears / Sanity Muffin Tapes Available" at As Is Exhibitions Oakland: 4707 Telegraph Avenue , floor 1, 7-10pm

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Saturday, October 8

+ Dean Smith, Elisheva Biernoff, Joshua Churchill, Lindsey White, Matthew Kennedy, Richard Misrach, Sean McFarland "Better a Live Ass Than a Dead Lion" at Eli Ridgway Gallery SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 4-7pm

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Screening: Sasikumar "Subramaniapuram" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 7pm

Scott Hove "Your Deadly Desserts" at Modern Eden
North Beach: 403 Francisco st, san francisco ca, 1st floor, 7-10pm

Sandi Miot "Reliquaries Requiem for the Printed Word" at Market Street Gallery
Civic Center: 1554 Market Street, 6-8pm

"10th Annual Art Auction" at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, 7-10pm

+ Pakayla Biehn "(t)here" at Gallery Hijinks
Mission District: 2309 Bryant Street, at 21st Street, floor 1, 6-10pm

Nancy Cato, Rodney Ewing, Ron Moultrie Saunders, Sirron Norris, William Rhodes "Still Here" at Sirron Norris StudioGallery
Mission District: 1406 B Valencia Street, 7-9pm

+ Ajit Chauhan, Kevin Killian "Don’t Be Upset" at Sight School Oakland: 5651 San Pablo Avenue, 7-10pm

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Sunday, October 9

Screening: Sasikumar "Subramaniapuram" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 4pm

Screening: Bala "Naan Kadavul (I Am God)" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 12:30pm

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