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The folks at Little Tree Gallery were nice enough to send us photos from Saturday night's Lacey Jane Roberts exhibit opening - the highlight being her some 10-foot tall crank-knit yarn fence with steel poles and assorted hardware. Our Michael Leaverton recently described the last funky fence Roberts put up - read about that here.

Opening photos by Lauren Anderson and piece pix by Matthew Hughes Boyko. (Many more beneath the fold!) --Janine Kahn

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(Click here for more photos from "Bedrooms.")

By Andrea Pflaumer

"Bedrooms," SF photographer Andrew Conway-McClintock's new one-man exhibit, opens May 2nd at the Bluesix Acoustic Room in the Mission. The show reveals a series of eighteen 20x20 color portraits taken in the bedrooms of people he describes as “artist/alternative youth.” Unlike similarly-themed images by (for example) photographer Adrienne Salinger, whose work has sometimes been branded as exploitative, Conway-McClintock portrays his subjects in an almost reverential light. “I give them respect and let them own the space,” he explains, “it’s more about the interaction between us...the actual shoot is an experience in itself... a conversation.”

These pictures are intriguing for the subjects alone, but also for how their 'stuff' reflects or is in contrast to the face they show the world. The first poignant portrait is of Brittney Lee Murphy, a lovely tow-headed performance artist, filmmaker and photographer - and to whom the book of the photos is dedicated - who overdosed at 21.

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(Cardburg before catastrophe)

People streamed into Cell Space past 8 p.m. on Friday to view the handbuilt City of Cardburg before its destruction, while the municipality's mayor filmed folks in a staged enactment of the city's Apocalypse for a movie to be released about the Cardburg project.

Children ran wild like bulls in a candy store, but were then asked to leave so that alcohol could be consumed, forcing the adults to take over where they left off. Cardboard puppet shows, a beauty pageant and bands followed one after another as the rooms filled to maximum capacity.

By 12:15 a.m., the City of Cardburg and all its inhabitants exploded as people ripped, jumped and tore apart every piece of cardboard in sight. The back room, still packed, turned into a dance floor that was quickly overrun by flying couches, flying bodies in cardboard attire, and a general drunken mess.

If everyone decided to belligerently beat each other with cardboard to release their aggressions and emotional inhibitions like this Friday night, the world might be a safer place. Who would have thought cardboard could be so entertaining? And hey --it's all recyclable! Props to Cell Space. --Gretchen Robinette

Click here for a start-to-finish slideshow documenting the destruction.

Documentaries are expensive pets, so the folks producing Faerie, "which chronicles the history of glorious contributions and gifts which have been imbued to mankind by queer or Faerie-spirited beings" and gives us "a present day look at the injustices and obstacles they endure," are holding an auction to help fund the project.

Drop by the San Francisco GLBT Community Center (1800 Market Street, 4th Floor) between 4 and 9 p.m. today to take home homoerotic fine art and photography. Details here.

Click the above photo for a sneak peak at the auction lineup. --Janine Kahn

Photojojo, one of the geeky local newsletters I subscribe to (and you should too) today refers camwhores everywhere to a nifty-neat set of build-it-yourself pinhole cameras on a webpage recently launched by Corbis. Ditch your digicam for the day and download the colorful PDFs, grab a roll of film, a cereal box and a needle and do it old school. --Janine Kahn

Visit Gallery Three this Friday, April 18, as Adam Flores premieres his new art. His first solo exhibit, "A Fool's Errand," features imagery brimming with social, cultural, and economic subtext. Gotta love art with meaning. And if you simply can't make it out the first night, Flores' exhibit is shown until May 20. -- Oscar Pascual

Thursday night, stop by the Hyde Street Gallery for free wine, cheese, and photos of gorgeous scantily-clad ladies taken at the Troc Burlesque Theater in Philadelphia in 1974. Robert Adler's "Burlesque" opening reception runs from 6-9 p.m. The photographer will be on hand at the exhibit and at Bacchus Wine Bar (across the street), selling copies of his signed, limited edition monograph.

Click the photo for a sneak peek of Adler's work.--Janine Kahn

111 Minna Gallery hosts a music, art, and fashion bonanza this Saturday when Chillin' resides for the evening. Enjoy music from DJs, embibe delicious cocktails, and purchase cheeky jewelry all at the same time. Click 'More' for extended info. -- ASD Staff Report

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In case you missed last Thursday's live art exhibition:

Dip into Cantina tonight for the gala opening of No Swimming Until Further Notice, the most recent exhibit of documentary photography by SF local Emily Payne.

In January, the now-defunct New College of California School of Law's still-quite-funked Environmental Law Caucus trekked down to the Colorado River Delta to plant trees and help build an eco-park. Full disclosure - I was on this trip, and while we planted an impressive number of cottonwood and willow stakes, due to Mexico's unpredictable social climate I was left with the distinct impression that we would be lucky if any of the trees we planted survived until next year's visit. Luckily, we dragged Ms. Payne along with us to chronicle our work in case everything dies. Again. She captured the Colorado River Delta and Rio Hardy at a unique moment, the first time in twenty years that vacationers were advised not to swim in the waters. Algae blooms, caused by improperly treated waste-water, were asphyxiating fish. Anyone want a dead-fish-and-feces cocktail?

Along with work, Ms. Payne also chronicled our play. But you don't get to see those photos unless you come to the opening reception, baby. --Alex Brant-Zawadzki

No Swimming Until Further Notice - Opening Reception
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Cantina, 580 Sutter St., San Francisco

ASD loves art and culture. Hell, those are two out of our three taglines. Get a heaping load of both April 4 when the Cultured! gallery hop takes over the Lower Haight. Bounce around D-Structure, Lower Haters, and Upper Playground's Fifty24SF for art displays, dope beats, and hourly raffles for prizes. Ooh, prizes. That should be our fourth tagline. -- ASD Staff Report

Freight & Salvage has begun its move to 2020 Addison, and will be holding a groundbreaking ceremony next Tuesday, April 1. Show up at 10:30 a.m. for a morning of food, drink, music, and an appearance by Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates. Click 'More' for a press release. -- ASD Staff Report

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Number enthusiasts took March 14 off to celebrate Pi by eating delicious pie pastries and solving equations. Click the above photo for a slideshow. -- Photos by Hayley McMillen

Photo sharing Web site Flickr celebrated four years of, well, sharing photos. Click the photo above for a slideshow that we'd like to share with you. -- Photos by Gretchen Robinette

One thing that's just as cool as your favorite movies is art inspired by said faves. Visit Giant Robot this Saturday for the premiere of "At The Movies," an art show featuring works dedicated to cinema. Unless you really want to catch that lame Road Warrior rip-off, Doomsday. Whatever, dude. -- ASD Staff Report