Back in our freshman year at art school, we'd get very upset when our barely-functioning alcoholic drawing instructor referred to photography as a "point and click" form of art making. Even during that impressionable first year, we knew he was exhibiting a famously old-school bias against photography, one that was perpetrated by many senior members of the painting and drawing faculty on a campus known for excellence amongst its staff and students. Professor Conté......

Friday night, while we were hanging out with the SXSW crew for a last hurrah, friend (and roommate) of SFist Bayete got a last minute invite to an impromptu fight night at the club house of the inimitable East Bay Rats. While there he took some absolutely fantastic photos, and lucky for us, suggested that we may want to use one. We saw the pictures and said, "Hey, mind if we use a few?"......

If you don't know, now ya know. The party is this Thursday, December 9th (we assumed you plugged it into your PDA) at Milk, across the street from Amoeba Records at 1840 Haight. We'll be there at seven with a drink special, vinyl records, sweet, sweet schwag and a digital camera so that we can squeeze yet another post out of this. Be there or be totally square! SFist, Future Primitive Sound and Quannum......

That time of month again, and this time we'll suggest the following shows for a little art therapy: Start your night by dropping by the Lisa Dent gallery from six to eight in Soma for Flo McGarrell's refined post-industrial sculpture. With womb-like spaces that explore curvature and symmetry, and the use of fabrics in a structural composition, she creates light sculpture that appears to have great weight and substance. SFist likes Lisa Dent because they......