Keeping it simple, lets keep this relatively brief. We're minus a museum for now, well into the summer season of less and less exhibitions and at the tail end of the auction/sale barrage, with one more to go.

Friday's Monster Drawing Rally to benefit Southern Exposure is always a great time, with affordable works by artists we love (120!!!), a lively atmosphere, good music, and good people. This year it is at a new, bigger location (THE NWBLK at 1999 Bryant... a huge, strange space). Highly recommended, and for an awesome cause. ->INFO

Wednesday:
+ Angels of Light, Anna Halprin, Ant Farm, Drop City, Emory Douglas, Single Wing Turquoise Bird, The Cockettes, Womnyn's Lands "West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977" curated by Adam Lerner, Elissa Auther at Mills College Art Museum

Friday:
+ Benefit: "2013 Monster Drawing Rally" at Southern Exposure (THE NWBLK)
+ Atilio Pernisco, Barbara Boissevain, Chris Engman, Christopher Reynold, Daniel A. Christopher, Dimitra Skandali, Jennifer Groft, Joe Lloyd, Kate Bonner, Keegan Luttrell, Liam Everett, Missy Engelhardt, Rhonda Holberton, Sarah Frazier, Sean Talley "NextNewCA" at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
+ Et al. (Aaron Harbour, Jackie Im, and Fancundo Arg, Stairwell's (Carey Lin and Sarah Hotchkiss), The Popular Workshop (Andy Hawgood and Nate Hooper "Just Make Something" curated by Colpa Press at Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley)

Wednesday, June 12

Panel Discussion: "The Culture Wars. Behind the fight to save Federal Arts Funding" A discussion with Rep. Pat Williams, Jim Melchert and Renny Pritikin at Gallery 16
SOMA: 501 Third Street, free, RSVP recommended, email griff@gallery16.com, 6-8pm

C.J. Ross, Dennis Hearne, Derrick Scocchera, Elizabeth Ashcroft, Fanny Renoir, Mague Calanche, Romalyn Schmaltz "Sevenfold" at Live Worms
North Beach: 1345 Grant Avenue, floor 1, 6-9pm

+ Angels of Light, Anna Halprin, Ant Farm, Drop City, Emory Douglas, Single Wing Turquoise Bird, The Cockettes, Womnyn's Lands "West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977" curated by Adam Lerner, Elissa Auther at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Free, 6-8pm

Friday, June 14

+ Benefit: "2013 Monster Drawing Rally" at Southern Exposure (THE NWBLK)
Mission District: 1999 Bryant Street, 18th Street, $15 & up donation at the door, 6-11pm

Chelsea Brown, Crystal Gonzalez, Harrison Love, Kellen Breen, Lizzy Layne, Mary Syring, Michael Kerbow, Rick Kitagawa, Sara Jennison, Shayna Why, Spencer Mann, Tofusquirrel curated by Shayna Yasuhara at Big Umbrella Studios
Hayes Valley: 906 Divisadero Street, Free, 7 - 11pm

+ Atilio Pernisco, Barbara Boissevain, Chris Engman, Christopher Reynold, Daniel A. Christopher, Dimitra Skandali, Jennifer Groft, Joe Lloyd, Kate Bonner, Keegan Luttrell, Liam Everett, Missy Engelhardt, Rhonda Holberton, Sarah Frazier, Sean Talley "NextNewCA" at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
San Jose: 560 South First Street, Free, 6-8pm

+ Et al. (Aaron Harbour, Jackie Im, and Fancundo Arg, Stairwell's (Carey Lin and Sarah Hotchkiss), The Popular Workshop (Andy Hawgood and Nate Hooper "Just Make Something" curated by Colpa Press at Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley)
Oakland: 486 49th Street, Free, 6-10pm

Saturday, June 15

"Division of Labor Festival" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, Free, 6pm-12am

Abner Kingman, Bonnie Neumann, Colin Gift, Emily Payne, Ian MacLean, Janel Leppin, Jessica Dunne, Judy O'Shea, Julian Hoenig, Julie Alvarado, Katina Huston, Kent Roberts, Leo Bersamina, Marie Van Elder, Nancy Genn, Susan Parker, Suzy Barnard, Tim Svenonius, Willard Dixon "Lure: Bay Area Artists Explore the Sea" at SFMOMA Artists Gallery (Fort Mason Center)
Marina District: Building A, Free, 1-3pm

Martin Webb "Made for You and Me" at Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th st., Oakland, CA 94608, Ground floor, 6-9pm

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