On Wednesday, YBCA opens their contribution to the South American Art resurgence with "When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the present." This Thursday is the monthly First Thursday, where the downtown SF galleries all have opening events. Highlights include: Rena Bransten Gallery , Koch Gallery, and Robert Tat Gallery. Catharine Clark Gallery and Michael Rosenthal Gallery round up the week in SF. On Friday, stroll about at the Oakland Art Murmur, a treat in this fine weather.

Tuesday:
+ Tara Foley "Either in a Million Years or Until the Bitter End" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

Wednesday:
+ "When Lives Become Form" Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the present at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Lecture: "Darby English" Fall 2009 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series at San Francisco Art Institute

Thursday:
+ Jason Houston, Katrina d'Autremont, Steve Bliss "Family of Mine" at RayKo Photo Center (Liberty Park)
+ Bret Bergen, Kevin Taylor, Lafe Eaves "PAPER TIGERS" curated by Jessica Wallen at Fivepoints Arthouse
+ Screening: Martha Colburn "Power to the Puppets" at SF MOMA
+ Ruth Asawa "Interstices" at Rena Bransten Gallery
+ Holly Andres "Sparrow Lane" at Koch Gallery
+ Gerald Ratto "Children Of The Fillmore" at Robert Tat Gallery
+ Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch "Megarealms" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
+ Performance: Jacqueline Gordon "Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine" at Queens Nails Projects

Friday:
+ Tucker Nichols "New Work" at Gallery 16
+ Screening: "Wholphin Selections" at A.T.A.
+ Amy Ruppel, Lisa Congdon "Gently by the Horn" at Rare Device
+ Andrew Benson, Sebastien Lapointe "Disintegrations" at Johansson Projects

Saturday:
+ Adam Chapman, Walter Robinson at Catharine Clark Gallery
+ Mary Conrad "Lapidary Terrarium" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery
+ Daniel Hipolito "Freaking Out" at Soap Gallery

Sunday:
+ "1,000 Voices: Stories from the first year of StoryCorps at the Contemporary Jewish Museum" at Contemporary Jewish Museum

Tuesday, November 3

+ Tara Foley "Either in a Million Years or Until the Bitter End" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Mission District: 3166 16th Street, 6-9pm

Lecture: David Shapiro "Graduate Studies Lecture Series " at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7pm

Wednesday, November 4

+ "When Lives Become Form" Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the present at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $12 in advance//$15 at the door//Free for YBCA Members and a guest, 8-11pm

+ Lecture: "Darby English" Fall 2009 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 7:30pm

"One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran" at Intersection for the Arts
Mission District: 446 Valencia Street, 7-9pm

Thursday, November 5

+ Jason Houston, Katrina d'Autremont, Steve Bliss "Family of Mine" at RayKo Photo Center (Liberty Park)
SOMA: 400 3rd Street, at Harrison Street, 6-8pm

Isabel Rucker, Mark Bode, Mike Dingle "Unfurling: This Land" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 6-11pm

"THE NOVEMBERISTS" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 5-Late

+ Bret Bergen, Kevin Taylor, Lafe Eaves "PAPER TIGERS" curated by Jessica Wallen at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 6-11pm

Lecture: "One on One" Curator Talks at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 6;30pm

+ Screening: Martha Colburn "Power to the Puppets" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, $10 general admission; $7 SFMOMA members, students, seniors, 7pm

+ Ruth Asawa "Interstices" at Rena Bransten Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Carol Lawton (CA), Eugenia Pardue (OR), Franziska Klotz (Germany), Prema Murthy (NY), Scott Kildall (NY), and more "Winter Salon 2009" curated by Micaela Van Zorn, Randall Miller at Micaela Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 234, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Holly Andres "Sparrow Lane" at Koch Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Gerald Ratto "Children Of The Fillmore" at Robert Tat Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Aaron Eliah Terry , Korakrit Arunanondchai at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

Christopher Murdoch "Under Every Grief And Pine" at Cafe Royale
Downtown: 800 Post Street, 8-Midnight

David Jang , Dong Phan, Wonju Shin "Exploration & Celebration IV" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5-7:30pm

+ Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch "Megarealms" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Civic Center: 66 Gough Street, at Market Street, 6-9pm

+ Performance: Jacqueline Gordon "Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine" at Queens Nails Projects
Mission District: 3191 Mission Street, 8pm

"Silhouettes and Serenades" A Night of Acoustic Song and Improvised Film at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

Will Barras "Darling, We're Leaving" at FIFTY24SF Gallery
Hayes Valley: 248 Fillmore Street, 7-9:30pm

Friday, November 6

+ Tucker Nichols "New Work" at Gallery 16
SOMA: 501 Third Street, 6-9pm

Greg Mike "POPSTARS AND COKEHEADS" at Medicine Agency
Downtown: 1262 Mason Street, 7pm

"New Works" at Artist-Xchange Gallery
Mission District: 3169 16th St, 7-10pm

Nikki McClure "REVIVE" at Needles & Pens
Mission District: 3253 16th Street, 6-9pm

Serena Cole "I Want to be Adored" at Triple Base Gallery
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 7-10pm

+ Screening: "Wholphin Selections" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

+ Amy Ruppel, Lisa Congdon "Gently by the Horn" at Rare Device
Hayes Valley: 1845 Market Street, 7-9pm

+ Andrew Benson, Sebastien Lapointe "Disintegrations" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 5-8pm

Saturday, November 7

+ Adam Chapman, Walter Robinson at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 6-8pm

Workshop: "Stencil Workshop and Lecture" Presented by White Walls and Wonderland at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 3-5:30pm

Performance: Lordy Rodriguez "Special Election A First Colony Event" A Public Program Of The Exhibition Bellwether at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , 2pm

Penelope Krebs, Sean Cheetham at Fouladi Projects
Mission District: 1 Otis Street, Upstairs from Enterprise car rental, floor 2, 6-9pm

+ Mary Conrad "Lapidary Terrarium" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery
Mission District: 365 Valencia street, 4-9pm

+ Daniel Hipolito "Freaking Out" at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, 6-9pm

Sunday, November 8

+ "1,000 Voices: Stories from the first year of StoryCorps at the Contemporary Jewish Museum" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 2-4 PM

"tiny" at Studio Gallery
Downtown: 1815 Polk Street, 2-6pm

Alex Greenburg, Bryan Sutton, Gibson Cuyler, Lonnie Dean, Naaman Rosen, Sean Jerd, Sebastian Caceres, Tina Dillman "Water Mark" at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, Free, 4-8pm

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