Sports!
The Oakland A’s are down 5-4 in the fourth game of the ALDS as I type this, I’m hoping they pull it out and going on to the ALCS. Whats that? You like art and not sports? That’s cool, but when your coworkers or perhaps fellow artists keep bringing it up, when it pours unendingly into your Facebook feed, instead of getting annoyed take some time to think.


Its pretty awesome that so many people are rooting for the same thing. What’s that? Sports is meaningless, with no real-world result to wins or losses etc.? Surely you can see how art would appear to be the same to those outside of its forbidding walls… Sports and art have problems, are too fixated on fame, corporate money, rewarding a VIP class etc., but in each sincere desire and hope still persist. 

So, as a sports fan (of all of the sports really, in addition to cheering for my favorite baseball, basketball and football teams I’ve been caught staring at motocross, golf, table tennis, pool…) here’s wishing the Oakland A’s good luck. 

The bases are loaded, no outs, top of the 8th…

Tuesday:
+ Screening: Bill Daniel "ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND » Film Screening: Who Is Bozo Texino?" at San Francisco Art Institute

Wednesday:
+ Screening: Joachim Koester "Tarantism" at Headlands Center for the Arts

Thursday:
+ Bruce Conner, Cameron, George Herms, Jay DeFeo, Jean Conner, Jess, Joan Brown, Lawrence Jordan, Wallace Berman, Wally Hedrick "Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu" at Gallery Paule Anglim

+ Facundo Arganaraz "Tonight Tonight" at Highlight Gallery

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Friday:

+ Screening: Mournia Al Solh "a double burger and two metamorphoses: a proposal for a Dutch cat, a Dutch dog, a Dutch donkey, a Dutch goat and finally, a Dutch camel" at Et al.

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+ Chris Fraser, Dean Smith, Randy Colosky, Sandra Ono "SPACE: 1999" at INCLINE Gallery

Saturday:
+ Performance: Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. "The Long Conversation: Divide // Conquer: The Manananggoogle Onboarding Experience" at Southern Exposure (Global Fund for Women Main Conference Room)
+ Rachel E. Foster "Treasury" curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo at Needles & Pens

Sunday:
+ Michael Snow "Solar Breath (Northern Caryatids)" at Pied-à-terre

Monday:
+ Lecture: "Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture - Skin Play: Visual Ethics and "Race" in Digital Art" Lecture by Jennifer González at UC Berkeley (Banatao Audiotorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)

Tuesday, October 8

+ Screening: Bill Daniel "ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND » Film Screening: Who Is Bozo Texino?" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 7:30 pm

Wednesday, October 9

Ahna Fender, Alex Maldonado, Brad Butler, Bridgette Thornton, Danielle Galante, Genny Bee May-Montt, Hallie Silva, Josh Stulen, Megan Atherton, Pin Janusas, Shannon Cervasio, Sophie Knight "20 Jay Street" at California College of the Arts (CCA) (CCA North/South Gallery)
Oakland: 5241 College Avenue Oakland, CA 94618, 1st floor, FREE, 5:30-7:30pm

Lecture: Melissa Chiu "Chinese Art Today: Lecture by Melissa Chiu" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Free, 7-9pm

+ Screening: Joachim Koester "Tarantism" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, Dinner is $20 for Headlands Members; $25 for non-members, Conversation is FREE, Dinner at 6:30pm; Conversation at 8:00pm

Thursday, October 10

+ Bruce Conner, Cameron, George Herms, Jay DeFeo, Jean Conner, Jess, Joan Brown, Lawrence Jordan, Wallace Berman, Wally Hedrick "Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Facundo Arganaraz "Tonight Tonight" at Highlight Gallery Downtown: 17 Kearny Street, free, 6-8pm

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"Calacas: Day of the Dead" at Creativity Explored
Mission District: 3245 16th Street, 7-9pm

Lecture: "Photography Lecture Series: Donna De Cesare" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Ralls Hall, Room 202, Free, 11am-12pm

Friday, October 11

+ Screening: Mournia Al Solh "a double burger and two metamorphoses: a proposal for a Dutch cat, a Dutch dog, a Dutch donkey, a Dutch goat and finally, a Dutch camel" at Et al. Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, free, 8pm

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Jocko Weyland "“Crackle, Hiss, and Scrawl”" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 7-10pm

Alma Chaney "New Paintings" at George Lawson Gallery (Downtown)
Downtown: 780 Sutter Street, FREE, 5:30-7:30pm

Lecture: Rachel Schreiber "Portraiture and the New Biography" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free and Open to the Public, 4.30-6.30pm

Lecture: "Photoalliance Lecture Series: Dinh Q. Le" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, $5 for students, $10 for the general public, 7:30pm

+ Chris Fraser, Dean Smith, Randy Colosky, Sandra Ono "SPACE: 1999" at INCLINE Gallery
Mission District: 766 Valencia Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Performance: "An evening with Sabot and friends" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 7pm

Alyse Lattanzio, Caroline Gorman, Eunsu Oh, Lucy Kasofsky, Maio Alvear, Makaylah Fazzari, Marcelo Gutierrez, Tamara Berdichevsky "Attractive Simulations" curated by Michele Pred at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, 6-8pm

Saturday, October 12

+ Performance: Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. "The Long Conversation: Divide // Conquer: The Manananggoogle Onboarding Experience" at Southern Exposure (Global Fund for Women Main Conference Room)
Financial District: 222 Sutter Street, Suite 500, FREE, 7-8:30pm

Lauren Napolitano "A Well Marked Path" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, 7-11pm

Casey Gray "TROPIC" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, Free, 7-11pm

Reka "3am Femmes" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, Project Space, 7-11pm

Michael Page "The Places We'll Go" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, 7-11pm

+ Rachel E. Foster "Treasury" curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo at Needles & Pens
Mission District: 3253 16th Street, Free, 7-9:30pm

Jennah Ward "pico" at George Lawson Gallery
Potrero Hill: 315 Potrero Avenue, FREE, 4-7pm

"PRISM: URBAN ART AND CULTURE FESTIVAL" at Defremery Park
Oakland: 16th St & Adeline St., free, 10am-4pm

Armando Picciotto, Geri Brown "The Palouse" at Thousand Oaks Art Gallery
Berkeley: 866 Colusa Avenue, floor 1, Free, 5:30-9:30pm

Mia Christopher "Maybe Forever" at littlebigspace
Albany: 1341 Thousand Oaks Boulevard, floor 1, FREE, 3-6pm

Sunday, October 13

Art Fair: "Passport 2013" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Western Addition: Divisadero Corridor, Free, 12:00-4:00pm

+ Michael Snow "Solar Breath (Northern Caryatids)" at Pied-à-terre
Richmond District: 600 2nd Avenue, 6-8pm

Monday, October 14

Lecture: "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Jaimie Warren + Whoop Dee Doo" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free and Open to the Public, 7:30pm

Lecture: "Architecture Lecture Series: Hiroto Kobayashi, Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop (KMDW)" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7pm

+ Lecture: "Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture - Skin Play: Visual Ethics and "Race" in Digital Art" Lecture by Jennifer González at UC Berkeley (Banatao Audiotorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)
Berkeley: UC Berkeley campus, Free, 7:30-9pm

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