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Its a super busy week, with each day jam-packed with shows and talks. Tonight's talk with Erin Shirreff at the San Francisco Art Institute should be good. And first Thursday is silly-busy; downtown and specifically 49 Geary have a ton of openings which might as well be visited on your way to the highlight of the evening, Zarouhie Abdalian's first solo show at Altman Siegel. 

What I'm most excited about this week is the opening of a new space curated by recent Bay Area transplant Juana Berrío, Kiria Koula. It is a gallery & bookstore but not necessarily in that (or any) order as their boundary between books and arts is a permeable one. The inaugural has work by two artist whose work I am familiar with but haven't seen in person, José León Cerrillo and Ilja Karilampi in the gallery, and artist/publisher Paul Chan has organized the bookstore. There are quite a few new spaces opening all of a sudden, just when the landscape was looking bleakest. They range in style and mission, like anything else this new crop will be a mixed bag but I suspect a few more gems such as Kiria Koula will come into being by the end of the year (fingers crossed).

Some notes 

If I'm missing your event on Curiously Direct's calendar, its more likely an oversight on my part than it is a judgement; please let me know about your shows, performances, talks etc., and ones that you think others would like to know about at curiouslydirect@gmail.com

Tuesday:
+ Lecture: "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Erin Shirreff" at San Francisco Art Institute

Thursday:
+ Lucy Raven "Hollywood Chop Riding" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Zarouhie Abdalian "An Overture" at Altman Siegel

Friday:
+ "40th Birthday!" at Southern Exposure

Tuesday, November 4

Performance: Caleb Feigin (The Lady Run Over By History), Frida Ibarra, Jai Arun Ravine, Lyric Seal, NCN, seeley quest, Xander Ibarra "The News: Fresh Queer Performance" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, $5, 7:30-9pm

+ Lecture: "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Erin Shirreff" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, free, 7:30 pm

Thursday, November 6

Eva Schlegel at Gallery Wendi Norris
SOMA: 161 Jessie Street, first floor, 6-8pm

Helen Rebekah Garber "Numbers" at Gallery Wendi Norris
SOMA: 161 Jessie Street, first floor, 6-8pm

Christopher De Leon, Daniel Valadez, Emily Moore, J.S. Weis, Leon Loucheur, Malik Girley, Monty Guy, Steve Javiel "Emergent" at 1AM Gallery
SOMA: 1000 Howard Street, 6:30-9:30pm

+ Lucy Raven "Hollywood Chop Riding" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 6:30pm-8pm

Screening: "Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers And The Emergence Of A People" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Screening Room, Regular: $10 / YBCA Member, Senior, Teacher, Student: $8/ YBCA: You Free, 7:30pm

Christopher Benson "INSIDE and OUT" at Paul Theibaud Gallery
North Beach: 645 Chestnut Street, 5-7pm

Tony Marsh "Color House" at Hedge Gallery
North Beach: 501 Pacific Avenue, 5:30-7:30pm

Cary Smith, Don Voisine at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5-7:30pm

Kota Ezawa "Kota Ezawa | The Aesthetics of Silence" at Haines Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Fan Ho "Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir" at Modernbook Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Zarouhie Abdalian "An Overture" at Altman Siegel
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Binh Danh "Binh Danh | This, Then, is San Francisco" at Haines Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Robert Kelly "New Paintings" at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Udo Nöger "Beyond" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Hiroshi Sato at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Katherine Young, Piero Spadaro "Visible Horizon" at Hang Art
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

David Mohr, Kate Rhoades, Sandra Ono, Simon Pyle, William Koone "Constituent" curated by Catherine Wagner at INCLINE Gallery
Mission District: 766 Valencia Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Screening: Andy Warhol, Mary Woronov "Mary Woronov, Warhol Superstar: The Chelsea Girls" curated by Dale Hoyt, Steve Polta at SF Cinematheque (Castro Theatre)
Castro: 429 Castro Street, $15 general/ $12 members, 7-11pm

Lecture: "Graduate Program in Design: Lecture by Bruce Tharp" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7pm

Beau Patrick Coulon "Marginal Transience" curated by Barry Monigle at Abco Artspace
Oakland: 3135 Filbert, 6-9pm

Performance: Richard Diebenkorn "Musical Reflections on Diebenkorn" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, $20 suggested donation, sliding scale, 5:30-7:30pm

Friday, November 7

Chor Boogie, Jet Martinez "Balance" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 5pm-late

Screening: Andy Warhol, Mary Woronov, Paul Morrissey "Mary Woronov, Warhol Superstar: Hedy feat. Mary Woronov in person" curated by Dale Hoyt, Steve Polta at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $10 general/ $6 members, 8:00-9:30pm

Jacob A Pfeiffer, Russell Harris at John Pence Gallery
Downtown: 750 Post Street, 6-8pm

Todd Lanam "Back to Isla Vista" at Mark Wolfe Contemporary
Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3, 5:30-8pm

Lecture: "PhotoAlliance Lecture Series: Robin Schwartz" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, $10 general / $5 students with ID, tickets available at the door, 7:30 pm

Caroline Gore "...mercurial silence..." at Velvet da Vinci
Russian Hill: 2015 Polk Street, 6-8pm

+ "40th Birthday!" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE and open to the public, Celebrate forty years of Southern Exposure with music, dancing and cakes upon cakes!, 8:00pm -12:00 am

Joseph Dumbacher & John Dumbacher "divert (out of line)" at CULT
Mission District: 3191 Mission Street, 7-9pm

Jay Howell at FFDG
Mission District: 2277 Mission Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Eliza Gregory, Nicole Lavelle "Massive Urban Change" at StoreFrontLab
Mission District: 337 Shotwell, 6-8:30pm

Reading: "Writers Series: Reading by Michelle Richmond" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 195 De Haro Street, Writers' Studio, 4:30-6 pm

William Harsh "Launch Pad: The Studio Practice of William Harsh" at Vessel Gallery
Oakland: 471 25th Street, 6-9pm

Blair Bradshaw, Catherine Courtenaye, Daniella Woolf, Lucky Rapp, Silvia Poloto, Tricia Rissmann "Visual Language" curated by Courtney Carrino, Shelley Barry at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Shipping+Receiving "Feral City" curated by Suzanne L'Heureux at Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley)
Oakland: 486 49th Street, 6-9pm

Jennifer + Kevin McCoy "All Exit" curated by Kimberly Johansson at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 5-8pm

Angela Kaczmarczyk, PhD candidate, Arnaud Martin, PhD, BAASICS, Brian Null, PhD, Daniel J. Cohen, PhD, Erin Jarvis Alberstat, PhD candidate, Luke Gilbert, PhD, Peter D. Roopnarine, PhD, Roger Anguera, Multimedia Engineer, Sara M. Freeman, PhD "Experimental Space" at Aggregate Space
Oakland: 801 West Grand Street, 5-8pm

Nando Alvarez-Perez "Vital Geometry & the Magic of Completion" at League Gallery
Berkeley: 800 Heinz, Suite 5, 7-10pm

Saturday, November 8

Screening: "Black Radical Imagination" curated by Amir George, Erin Chrsitovale at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Screening Room, Regular: $10 / YBCA Member, Senior, Teacher, Student: $8/ YBCA: You Free, 6pm

Alain Biltereyst, Anette Haas, Brent Hallard, Bret Slater, Dean Smith, Don Voisine, Gilbert Hsiao, Joan Waltemath, Kirk Stoller, Kyle Jenkins, Linda Francis, Mel Prest, N. Dash, Prajakti Jayavant, Richard van der Aa, Tarn McLean, Tim Stapel, Zachary Royer Scholz "UN•BOUND•ED" curated by Brent Hallard, Don Voisine at Root Division
Mid Market: 1059 Market Street, 6-9pm

Marco Rea "unFashion" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, Project Space, 7-11pm

Aaron Li-Hill "Electric Currents and Mortal Wounds" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, Project Space, 7-11pm

Olivia Mole "LOOSE-Y, Part I: THIS SHIT IS GOLD" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, 6-9pm

Chris Finley "The Cure for the Uncanny Valley" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, 6-9pm

Lucky Rapp, Rachel Meginnes "Calibrate" at Campfire Gallery
Mission District: 3344 24th Street, 7-10pm

Paul Wackers "Paul Wackers: New Work" at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 4-7 PM

Anastasia Faiella, Isabelle Maynard, Kathleen Martin "Related Categories" at 60SIX
Mission District: 66 Elgin Park, floor 1, 5-8:30pm

Keira Kolter "I Look for Light" at Brian Gross Fine Art
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, 4-6pm

Wanxin Zhang "Totem" at Catharine Clark Gallery
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, 4-6pm

Rex Yuasa "Nascent" at Brian Gross Fine Art
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, 4-6pm

Artist Talk: Rex Yuasa at Brian Gross Fine Art
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, Free, 3:30pm

LigoranoReese "IAMI" at Catharine Clark Gallery
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, Free and open to the public, 4-6 pm

Lowell Darling "How I Learned To Draw" at Random Parts
Oakland: 1206 13 avenue, free, 3-7pm

Artist Talk: Squeak Carnwath at MarinMOCA
Novato: 500 Palm Drive, 4-5:30pm

Elena Zolotnitsky, Jean-Claude Langer "e-mo-tive" curated by Andra Norris at Gallerie Citi Burlingame: 1115 Howard avenue, 5-7pm

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Sunday, November 9

Léonie Guyer , Norma Cole, Wayne Smith "time silence and the sky" at 2nd floor projects
Mission District: 3740 25th Street, floor 2, 4-7 PM

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