Arts
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SF Station's event picks this week
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Through Sun Sep 28
at SFMOMA (11am - 5:45pm) Museums
Exhibit showcases 50 paintings from the beginning of Frida Kahlo's career in 1926 to her death in 1954. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo began painting in 1926, while recovering from a near-fatal bus accident, and soon became captivated by the medium's expressive possibilities. She filled her canvases with vibrant colors, powerful compositions, and revealing depictions of intensely personal struggles
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Sat Jul 12 - Sat Jul 26
Iceberger Gallery is proud to announce new works by Oakland-based artist Jen Merrill in Demikhov's Hands of Glory. Using malleable materials like paper, acrylic paint and linen thread, Merrill deconstructs the surface of the flat plane with a scalpel to create three-dimensional representations of the human form.
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Sat Jul 12 - Sat Aug 16
The show will feature new fiction by local writers Victor Martinez, Peter Plate, and Michelle Tea, and new photography by Gregory Halpern, Whitney Hubbs, and Sean McFarland. The prose and photographs, completed and shot in late May and early June 2008, aim to chronicle an extremely timely and distinct artistic view of San Francisco ranging from its gloomy urban underbelly to its quiet, startling beauty.
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Thu Jul 10 - Sun Jul 27
Throughout the month of July, Triple Base will activate the gallery with alternative art commerce. A weekly rotation of artist booths designed by sixteen contemporary artists and creative inventors will each provide an offering of goods, services or information. The set-up facilitates an active space for exchange and social interaction, allowing the artists to highlight their influences or endeavors outside of their regular visual art practice.
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Fri Jul 18 - Sat Aug 9
Roger Rees' Solo Show
What You Will is the one-man everything there is "to be or not to be" about William Shakespeare: the greatest soliloquies ever written next to side-splitting accounts of the funniest disasters ever perpetrated on the stage. There's Romeo, Juliet's foolish Nurse, gory Macbeth, Hamlet, and the oh-so-tragic Richard II, joined by the likes of Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Noël Coward, and Stevie Wonder.
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Through Sun Jul 20
By Keith Bunin
Hailed as “poignant and real” by Variety and “intriguing . . . engaging” by The New York Times, THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED is a thought-provoking, moving look at religion, faith, and the complexities of the human heart. Episcopalian minister and bible scholar Hannah contracts a ghostwriter to help her pen a book about a newly discovered gospel. As they set to work putting her thoughts into print, her troubled gay son, fresh from his latest attempt to find himself, wanders back into her life.
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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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Thu Jul 17 - Sat Jul 19
Stripped
Comedian and actor Eddie Izzard, adored by fans and critics alike for his lightening quick wit and surreal humor is back and starting the largest comedy tour of his career. Izzard’s new one man show fittingly titled STripped will hit North America this April with performances in 34 cities. Critics have described Izzard as everything from the "funniest man in pretty much all of the known universe," to "a human search engine," to "a surrealist maestro of historical and scientific trivia”, and "a one-man Monty Python crew."
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