Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi : R. A. McBride - Left in the Dark, Photographs of San Francisco Movie Theatres.

Comment: R. A. McBride continues her sentimental documentation of vintage movie theaters-- rennovated, restored, revitalized, unrestored, frayed, vacant, vandalized, defunct, decrepit, and delapidated.

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San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery : Breakthrough - An Amateur Photography Revolution.

Comment: Group show examines the ways digital photography has forever changed the ways we take, save, share, display, and view images. The event includes a panel discussion on May 31 at Koret Auditorium in the SF Main Public Library.

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Queen's Nails Annex : Keith Boadwee & Patrick Rock - Cult Classics, not Best Sellers.

Comment: I guess you could call this art "high raunch," with the gallery's front windows appropriately smoked for the occasion. Patrick Rock tells me the work pushes, or more accurately, vaporizes the envelope by way of boldness, and you sure won't get a peep outta me on that one. Yes, it's depraved and disgusting, but much of it is also hilarious, thought provoking, and exceptionally impressive from organizational, historic, social commentary, sexuality, and aesthetic perspectives. In the front room, Keith Boadwee instigates the assault straight in your face, sodomizing you up for the middle room which, if you didn't see the front room first, would likely still wax phallic and anal on you, but not nearly as intense. In the third and final room, Patrick Rock culminates the blunt force trauma with a wall of arrestingly progressive mixed media collages. It's rude; it's crude; it's excellent. Go see. I'd love to show you everything here, but I can't.

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Ar + Space : J. Danielle Hubbard - Record of Existence.

Comment: J. Danielle Hubbard reveals her personal self through an intimate artobiographical installation highlighted by an edible grid of cookies frosted with fractionated photos of Hubbard in the buff.

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Adobe Books and Backroom Gallery : Kyle Ranson - How to Slow Down.

Comment: Kyle Ranson consistently demonstrates that he's among San Francisco's most talented, distinctive, original, and impendingly imminent artists. It's that simple and no more complicated. Oh... almost forgot... and affordable too, with all major works in the show priced significantly under $2000 (he tells me a couple are already sold, so you better move fast). Somebody get a little gumption and give this dude a show already! I can't believe it hasn't happened yet. See the work in person; my photos don't do justice. Extra added bonus-- in the main room, Sara Thustra and friends accentuate the art with enlightened entertainment.

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