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HELFAND'S 2008 TOP 10 Excerpted from sfbg.com 1. "Oranges and Sardines," Hammer Museum Returning SFMOMA curator Gary Garrels' current "conversations on abstract painting" exhibition in Los Angeles is one of the most satisfying, artist-friendly shows ever. 2. Philippe Vergne, lecture at San Francisco Art Institute The recently-appointed director of the Dia Art Foundation offered incisive, inspirational, and witty takes on the melancholic state of the arts. 3. Speed Racer: The IMAX Experience (Andy and Larry Wachowski, USA, 2008) This color-drenched amusement park ride of a movie lacks coherence and features the world's most irritating child actor, but two-plus hours of nonstop electric rainbow CGI at IMAX scale ...

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The Secret Life of Plants

Johanna St. Clair, Sean McFarland, Paul Wackers & a garden installation by Dan Carlson

All 4 artists in this show have great work. I want the Wackers diptych on paper.

Show Runs Sept. 27th - Oct. 31st

-  Swoon's first and only monograph.

- New Paul Schiek book.

-  New Tauba Auerbach book, 50/50.

-  New Leslie Shows book.

-  New Hank Willis Thomas book.

- Signed copies of Mail Order Monsters.

Hilary Pecis at Receiver Gallery. From the Paradigm Shift, opens Sept 6.

Great show. Here work has really grown. The big pieces are amazing.

Group show at Hosfelt. Vocabularies of Metaphor opens Sept. 6.

Including Amy Cutler, Shazia Sikhander, Henry Darger...three of my favorites.

Andrew Schoultz, In Gods We Trust, runs thru October at Heather Marx Gallery. His best show yet.

Lydia Fong, A moment of Reflection at Ratio 3. Barry always puts on a good show.

Jason Jagel at Electric Works opening Sept

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