Tonight - two shows open (one show leaves) at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (49 Geary Ste. 411): Orly Corgan's The Wonder of You, and Sentences by Nicholas Knight - both artists are from New York. In her post-modern feminist tapestries, Cogan takes vintage tablecloths and other linens from days gone by and transforms them through embroidery into an erotic fantasyland featuring mostly her. She muses, eats sweets, snorts coke, contemplates kissing frogs and kicks around......

Tonight at The Lab (2948 16th St at Capp), it's the opening reception for the Corporate Art Expo '07, an exhibition of the "art lie" du jour - artists taking on the guise of corporations with the requisite branding, logos, and jargon, often as a means to critiquing capitalism and consumerism. Curated by Shane Montgomery, the exhibition features faux-corps: the Anti-Advertising Agency, Acclair, C5 Corporation, Davis & Davis Research, Meaning Maker, Death and Taxes, Inc.,......

Tonight at the venerable New Langton Arts (1246 Folsom St between 8th and 9th), it's the Opening Reception for Myth by Method, an exhibition that explores the unfolding of narrative through drawing, video, collage, sculpture, and music, with works by SF's Katrina Lamb and New York-based collective Lansing-Dreiden. Lamb and Lansing-Dreiden share an interest in synthesizing the realms of art and music, creating works that resonate with mythology, fantasy, and even daily life. The reception......

Tonight is another epic shindig at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission at 3rd), celebrating the opening of R. Crumb’s Underground, a thematically-organized show of collaborative drawings (including work with his wife, Aline), self-portraits, and counter-cultural chronicles, including early and new work, plus rare film screenings of some of the blues, swing and "exotica" bands that inspired Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders. The soirée also celebrates the opening of The Black Factory by William......

Tonight is a big-ass party at the Exploratorium, (3601 Lyon St.) for its new exhibition, Liminality: Art on the Threshold. Liminality experiments with the Exploratorium's public space using the metaphor of thresholds as a unifying theme. This exhibition will feature large-scale artworks, created by Seattle and Bay-Area artists, which play with and accentuate the architectural features of the Exploratorium's airplane hangar-like interior. The opening party features one-night-only performances and installations by Project Bandaloop, Kal......

While we have not cultivated or honed our food-writing skills as much as our SFist food chroniclers, let alone Meredith Brody, we are quite fond of cheese. While we cannot confirm the presence of cheese at the following events, the art is worth checking out. Eleanor Harwood was once the curator of the influential back room gallery at Adobe Bookstore, and now has her own eponymous gallery (1295 Alabama St at 25th). Tonight at......

Evesorange (16 Waverly Place @ Sacramento & Grant) Martin Hsu Original Illustrations Opening: Sat., Sept. 2, 6 – 10 p.m. On a sunny day in 1991, Martin Hsu arrived in Los Angeles, and after five years of animation at CSUF went on to create the much loved character Ruby Gloom. In a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of Gloomsville lives Ruby Gloom. Some kids might be afraid of the dark, eccentric neighbors and the unknown......

In Color 2 (2475 Third Street, Suite 251 at 22nd Street) The Ghana Youth Photo Project Opening Benefit Reception: Fri., Aug. 25, 6-9 p.m. Last October San Francisco Camerawork’s youth mentoring program First Exposures sponsored Jamie Lloyd’s trip to West Africa to bring a photography program to 11 youths in Ghana’s capital city of Accra. The children not only learned a new skill but were also given the opportunity to visually represent their country, culture,......

Soap Gallery (1142 Howard Street) The Brilliance of the All Knowing Artist Reception: Fri., Aug. 18, 6-9 p.m. The Brilliance of the All Knowing is a collective meditation on the human condition and its relation to nature. Each artist in this group show was given a series of reference graph charts from a nature stock photography book that cross referenced animals and landscapes with descriptive words ranging from human emotions to states of being.......

Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin Street) Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration August 4 – November 5 The premise: six acclaimed Pakistani artists around the world-all trained in the tradition of miniature painting, but each reflecting an individual perspective-collaborate on a dynamic creative experiment. Each artist initiates two new paintings and passes them on to another artist, until all have contributed to each piece. The result: twelve engaging artworks responding to historical events of the past and......

ARTworkSF (49 Geary St., Suite 215 Best of Show” Union Square Gallery Opening July 6-22, Tuesdays-Saturdays noon-5:30, opening reception July 6 5:30-7:30 To celebrate its 14th year in business, ARTworkSF will move into a premiere gallery space in the heart of Union Square. The first opening will take place during San Francisco’s famous “First Thursdays”. Juried by the public, this exhibit will showcase the most popular works of Bay Area artists from past ARTworkSF......

Creativity Explored (3245 16th Street at Guerrero) Nature Rules: A group exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture June 22 - August 10 10-3 M-F, 1-6 Saturdays, opening reception this Thursday from 7-9 From the tiniest orbs of pollen to the towering crowns of redwood trees, artists with developmental disabilities from Creativity Explored investigate all things great and small in nature in a new exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture. Artists used microscopes and magnifiers to......

Varnish Fine Art (77 Natoma between 1st and 2nd Streets) Re: Assembled June 6 through July 15, Tuesdays through Fridays from 11a.m. to 11p.m., Saturdays from 1-5. Opening reception June 8 from 7-11 p.m. Nemo Gould's kinetic metal & found object sculpture, Dan Romo's acrid and whimsical dioramas and Barry Kite's socio-political wall work come together in a single show built on the idea of reassembled motifs. In keeping with Varnish's reputation for sculpture-centric shows,......

Foreign Cinema's Gallery (2534 Mission between 21st & 22nd) Benefit for R.A. McBride and Julie Lindow's book, Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres and Christian Bruno's Film, Strand: A Natural History of Cinema Tuesday, MAY 16, 2006, 7-11pm Come enjoy a taste of San Francisco’s rich film history at this art, film and book party benefit! Support two local artists and listen to wonderful live music, scrumptious free food as......

Hey, the Asian Art Museum's Three Gorges Project, that we mentioned to you last week is having a reception for the artist, Liu Xiaodong, tomorrow night from 6-8 p.m. The event is free with museum admission, which is only $5 after 5 p.m. Art is fun, but there's really no party like an art party, is there? Artists' Television Access (992 Valencia Street) Left In The Dark April 5-30 Left in the Dark is......

While we’ve been stuck inside our stuffy apartment in the Tenderloin, nursing a nasty cough amid empty tissue boxes and cartons of Chunky Monkey (hey, we have a very sore throat), we’ve started to feel a touch of the cabin fever. Despite our frail and sickly condition, we’re determined to get a little fresh air and check out the following shows starting tonight. We hope to see you there, just don’t stand too close.......

All the shows we told you about last time are stil running, so if you haven't hit them yet, get on it! In addition, we have a one-time-only event for you for this Friday: Red Ink Studios (52 9th Street between Market and Mission) Picture Progress: a silent art auction benefit Friday March 31, 2006 6:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Don't miss the The League of Young Voters second annual silent art auction, Picture Progress, on......

After a weekend spent eating Girl Scout cookies and watching It Takes A Thief reruns, we're ready for something a little more intellectually active, like the art shows we've listed below. Lisa Dent Gallery (660 Mission Street, 4th Floor) Hank Willis Thomas March 3rd – April 8th, Wednesdays through Saturdays 12-6 In his second solo exhibition in San Francisco Willis Thomas presents “Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America,” a follow up to his......