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OPENING NIGHT PARTY
3/27/2009 8:00pm - 11:00pm
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YBCA presents the largest scale presentation of work by Chicago-based artist and former Alvin Ailey dancer, Nick Cave, featuring fifty of his “soundsuits”—multi-layered mixed-media, wearable sculptures named for the sounds made when the sculptures are worn. As reminiscent of African and religious ceremonial costumes as they are of haute couture, Cave’s work explores issues of ceremony, ritual, myth and identity. He does this through a layering of concepts, highly-skilled techniques and varied traditions, using materials such as fabrics, beads, sequins, old bottle caps, rusted iron, sticks, twigs, leaves and hair. Mad, humorous, elaborate, grotesque, glamorous and unexpected, the soundsuits are created from scavenged ordinary materials—detritus from both nature and culture—that Cave re-contextualizes into visionary masterpieces.
March 28th, 2-4pm
Conversation with visual artist Nick Cave and guest curator Kate Eilertsen
Venues
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March 11th, 2010
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A Talking Art program featuring a discussion with printmaker Joseph Goldyne
Annual Monotype Marathon
7:00pm - 9:00pm at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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Candida Höfer, Jennie Smith
Zoologische Gärten + New Works
through 4/10/2010 at Rena Bransten Gallery
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Mark Flood
Green Cube
through 4/11/2010 at Noma Gallery
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Theodora Varney Jones, Francesca Pastine, Marta Sanchez-Vasquez
Interdependencia | Interdependence
through 4/16/2010
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Kate Eric
Bug War Over Two Blue Mountain
through 5/1/2010 at Frey Norris Gallery
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Janet Bishop on Jeff Koons's Michael Jackson and Bubbles
6:30pm at SFMOMA
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Artist Talk: A Conversation with Renowned Printmaker Joseph Goldyne
7:00pm at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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Youth Producing Change
7:00pm at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Back in the Sleeve: Jews on Vinyl Closing Event
7:00pm - 9:00pm at Contemporary Jewish Museum
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Defiant Proclamations
7:00pm - 11:30pm at CELLspace
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Dave Eggers "Zeitoun" with Abdulrahman & Kathy Zeitoun hosted by Wajahat Ali
8:00pm at City Arts & Lectures
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TGIT
3/25/2010 5:30pm - 7:30pm at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
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John DiPaolo
New Paintings
4/1/2010 - 5/29/2010 at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
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Sean McFarland, James Sterling Pitt
The Sea All Around Us
3/13/2010 - 4/4/2010 at Sight School
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Tom Bills, Caroline Cox, Mitra Fabian
New Cast Concrete and Steel Sculpture
3/16/2010 - 4/24/2010 at Don Soker Contemporary Art
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Group show
Cream, from the top
3/20/2010 - 4/18/2010
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pick
Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining
3/12/2010 - 3/13/2010
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At Bay
3/10/2010 - 3/20/2010 at Worth Ryder Art Gallery
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Security
3/10/2010 - 3/27/2010 at Root Division
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