December has just begun, a full thirty one days and yet so many less than that due to the holidays which make this last month a bit of a crunch to get through. And one's mind turns from "what to do" to conversations about "what DID I do", best-ofs and top tens etc.

I'm busily digesting my experience at NADA in Miami while trying to start to build a picture of what exactly did happen this year. My/our best-of list soon, to give a peek, expect reference to the new Ratio 3, Stage Presence at SFMOMA, Dashiell Manley...

For this week,  I'd recommend not missing the new shows at Important Projects opening Friday (full disclosure: a space run by friends with work by friends) featuring Erin Jane Nelson and Mark Taylor, and while in the east bay, the "Points of Departure: Trivial Pursuit" talk at Royal Nonesuch looks to be a good.

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Wednesday:

+ Kenneth Goldsmith, Kota Ezawa "Take Off: Kota Ezawa, Kenneth Goldsmith" at Kadist Art Foundation

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+ Closing reception: An My LÊ, Dinh Q LÊ, Khvay Samnang, NGÔ Đình Trúc, PHAN Quang, Phunam, TRẦN Minh Đức, Uudam NGUYEN, Vandy Rattana, VÕ An Khánh "Poetic Politic: A Sàn Art exhibition" curated by Zoe Butt at Kadist Art Foundation

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Friday:
+ Marine Hugonnier, Taha Belal "Disrupt" curated by Kelly Huang at Highlight Gallery

+ Mark Inglis Taylor "Tiny Moves" at Important Projects

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+ Erin Jane Nelson "Love's Labor's 1" at Important Projects

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+ Panel Discussion: Adam Widmer - History, Sarah Hotchkiss - Science & Nature, Tim Sullivan - Arts & Literature "Points of Departure: Trivial Pursuit" curated by Pablo Guardiola, Zoe Taleporos at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Saturday:

+ Lindsey White "Matter of Fact" at Eli Ridgway Gallery

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+ Artist Talk: Carissa Potter, Luca Antonucci "Kala Artist Talk with Colpa Press’ Luca Antonucci & Carissa Potter" at Kala Art Institute

Wednesday, December 12

+ Kenneth Goldsmith, Kota Ezawa "Take Off: Kota Ezawa, Kenneth Goldsmith" at Kadist Art Foundation Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, 7-9pm

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+ Closing reception: An My LÊ, Dinh Q LÊ, Khvay Samnang, NGÔ Đình Trúc, PHAN Quang, Phunam, TRẦN Minh Đức, Uudam NGUYEN, Vandy Rattana, VÕ An Khánh "Poetic Politic: A Sàn Art exhibition" curated by Zoe Butt at Kadist Art Foundation Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, Free, 5-7pm

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Thursday, December 13

"Hessam Abrishami's "Unique Impression" Show at Art People Gallery, Dec. 11th-30th, 2012" at Art People Gallery (Crocker Galleria)
Downtown: 50 Post Street, #41, 4-7pm

Bay Area Photographers Coalition ""POP!"" at Red Poppy Art House
Mission District: 2698 Folsum Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

"Kala Artists' Annual - Exhibition and Opening" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, free, 6-8pm

Friday, December 14

+ Marine Hugonnier, Taha Belal "Disrupt" curated by Kelly Huang at Highlight Gallery
Downtown: 17 Kearny Street, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Artist Talk: Rian Dundon "Artist Talk & Book signing : Rian Dundon, Changsha" at Carte Blanche
Mission District: 973 Valencia Street, floor 1, Free, 6-8pm

+ Mark Inglis Taylor "Tiny Moves" at Important Projects Oakland: 5432 Boyd Avenue, floor 2, Free, 6-9pm

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+ Erin Jane Nelson "Love's Labor's 1" at Important Projects Oakland: 5432 Boyd Avenue, floor 2, Free, 6-9pm

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+ Panel Discussion: Adam Widmer - History, Sarah Hotchkiss - Science & Nature, Tim Sullivan - Arts & Literature "Points of Departure: Trivial Pursuit" curated by Pablo Guardiola, Zoe Taleporos at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, 7pm

Saturday, December 15

Tour: Richard Diebenkorn "Richard Diebenkorn: Prints and Proofs" at Crown Point Press
SOMA: 20 Hawthorne Street, free, 4:30pm

Anne Appleby "New Color Etchings By Anne Appleby" at Crown Point Press
SOMA: 20 Hawthorne Street, free, 4-6pm

+ Lindsey White "Matter of Fact" at Eli Ridgway Gallery SOMA: 172 Minna Street, Free, 4-7pm

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Leilani Bustamante "Ascension" at Modern Eden
North Beach: 403 Francisco st, san francisco ca, 1st floor, Free and Open to the Public, 6-10pm

Aniela Sobieski, Ashley Bell, Cayetano G. Valenzuela, Cory Benhatzel, Jaclyn Alderete, Jeffrey Felker, Kassie McMahon, Lacey Bryant, Lara Dann, Layil Umbralux, Lucy Hillenbrand, Melissa Morgan, Michael Foley, Ransom & Mitchell, Shawn Kawa, Sheri Jurnecka "Nevermore: Works Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”" curated by Bradley Platz at Modern Eden
North Beach: 403 Francisco st, san francisco ca, 1st floor, Free and Open to the Public, 6-10pm

"Escape Velocity" at Mirus Gallery
Downtown: 540 Howard Street, 6-10pm

Scott Fraser "Outside the Box" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street, Free, 3-5pm

Alisha Kerlin, Ben Venom, Christopher Russell, Hiro Kurata, Jovi Schnell, Lucien Shapiro, Matt Gonzalez, Revok, Richard Colman, Ryan Wallace, Terry Powers, Victor Reyes "December Group Show" at Guerrero Gallery
Mission District: 2700 19th Street, free, 7-11pm

Cody Vrosh "To All The Creatures Within Us" at Mission: Comics & Arts
Mission District: 3520 20th Street, Suite B, 7-10pm

Gregory Ito "Moonstruck" at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, free, 7-10pm

Chris Ballantyne, Michael Light "Private Frontiers" at Hosfelt Gallery
Potrero Hill: 260 Utah Street, Free, 4-6pm

Charlie Milgrim, Dave Meeker, Eric Bohr, Jann Nunn, Jill McLennan, Jo Ann Biagini, Joan Weiss, Jody Medich, Julianne Wallace Sterling, Julie Alvarado, Kathleen King, Kerry Vander Meer, Leah Markos, Margaret Chavigny, Mary Curtis Ratcliff , Maya Kabat, P.K. Frizzell , Peter Honig , Ruth Tabancay, Terryl Dunn "After the Fall" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, free, 4-6pm

+ Artist Talk: Carissa Potter, Luca Antonucci "Kala Artist Talk with Colpa Press’ Luca Antonucci & Carissa Potter" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, free, 6-8pm

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