Arts
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SF Station's event picks this week
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Through Sun Sep 21
at SFMOMA (10am - 5:45pm) Musuems
One of the most unconventional female artists of the 20th century, Lee Miller was admired for her classical beauty, intelligence, and photographic talent. This retrospective spans her career as a photographer and explores her transformation from muse and model to groundbreaking artist in her own right.
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Through Sun Sep 28
Chihuly at the de Young takes a comprehensive view of the artist’s dramatic, colorful, and textured works that generate instant international recognition. This exhibition represents all the creative periods of the artist’s career, from drawings to single vessels to architectural installations.
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Fri Aug 15 - Sat Sep 13
Collection of works by Bryan Schnelle
at D.A. Arts (see web site for times) Galleries
Wall to wall, floor to ceiling, installation and utter chaos. This visually overwhelming installation is set to a black room filled with painted words and phrases in old english style, various portraits, and infamous masked figures from floor to ceiling, wall to wall.
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Through Sat Aug 30
Scott Nichols Gallery will concurrently present photographs by contemporaries of Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera who photographed in Mexico. Amongst these will be rare and vintage photographs as well as a selection of work by San Francisco based photographer, Reid Yalom.
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Through Sat Sep 6
New works by Yumiko Kayukawa
In the fanciful life of Yumiko Kayukawa, she is able to hang out with animals like best friends. A colorful picture of a pouty lipped, glossy eyed girl hugging a manatee the way a child hugs their grandpa, first grabbed my attention. The connection between animal and girl is captivating.
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Through Sun Aug 31
The Art of Mike Shine
Mike is a painter who mixes driftwood, reclaimed house paint, Nordic mythology, insomnia, 1970's pop culture, absinthe, Teutonic philosophy, his wife, and woodworking skills leftover from a previous life- to make art that is one part uplifting and two parts disturbing.
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Through Sat Aug 30
By Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally's comedy BAD HABITS is set in competing medical facilities, each designed to help people deal with their bad habits. One place teaches them to embrace all bad habits and adopt new ones. The other place is run by a diabolically perfect nurse who suppresses her patients' every possible pleasure.
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Through Sun Aug 31
Roger Rees' Solo Show
Skittish is six comedies each for two actors, two chairs, a table and a door. The show was written by The National Lampoon's Bruce Moody and directed by Alfredo Fidani. This world premier features local actors Ariana Hooper, Brandon Long, Candy Campbell, Joseph Rende, plus Joe Higgins and Kenna Hunt.
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Fri Jul 4 - Mon Sep 1
San Francisco Mime Troupe's
at parks all over the Bay Area (2pm) Theater
It’s Election Day in small town America! The Heartland - apple pie, general stores, hard work. But in Bluebird, Kansas, apple pie has been replaced with government cheese, general stores have made way for pawn shops, and hard work on the job has become the hard work of survival. Littered with a crumbling New Deal infrastructure and its monuments to a feisty union past forgotten, Bluebird is ready to slip into oblivion. But what if a small town in a Red State found itself at the forefront of a political fight?
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Wed Aug 13 - Thu Aug 14
The Arts and Activism Project
For two months this summer, CounterPULSE will provide an artistic home for teenage girls exploring strength, independence and advocacy through the practice of aerial dance. Flying newspapers and an oversized scale of justice take on special political meaning as girls from San Francisco's Oasis for Girls Summer Arts Apprenticeship team up in a unique collaboration with CounterPULSE and Jo Kreiter's Flyaway Productions.
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Sun Aug 10 - Sun Aug 17
Stepology Presents
The Festival culminates with the Bay Area Rhythm Exchange – a two-night production which features Festival artists in two concert performance programs with live musical accompaniment at San Francisco’s historic Herbst Theatre. A diverse, multi-generational roster of today’s tap stars from Broadway, film, and the concert stage returns for the annual concert performance, which has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Top Ten Dance Performances of the Year.
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