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This is another NSFV (Not Safe for Vegans) post, so consider yourselves warned. SF Weekly food blogger Meredith Brody snapped the pic at right of a whole steer that spit roasted and then butchered before an audience at a event Saturday night celebrating a week of events at the museum focusing on Futurism. We, ourselves, are simultaneously grossed out and drooling over the photo and this write-up by Brody, which describes how the meat slices were sent onto a conveyor belt around the room, slathered in mole, and served atop Tartine bread along with a bunch of yummy cocktails.

     

The folks at SFMOMA invite the public to participate in their weekly Sketch Fridays, which is geared toward facilitating an exchange between the community and the museum in the creation of "visual guestbooks." The group meets every Friday at 2 p.m., and guests of all levels are encouraged to attend, from children to professional artists.

On Saturday, the first major retrospective of the photographs of Richard Avedon since his death in 2004 opens at SFMOMA. San Francisco is the only U.S. stop on the tour for this show, and Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 focuses primarily on the artist as portrait photographer, featuring some of his best-known portraits including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Bjork and William S. Burroughs. We saw a preview of the show yesterday, and it's both a gorgeous collection of images as well as a moving document of the faces of the late 20th Century.

With July 4th fast approaching, there might be no better way to express -- and examine -- your patriotism than a visit to SFMOMA to see Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans", the Swiss photographer's profound and path-breaking look at our fair nation.

    

In celebration of Mother's Day on Sunday, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is offering free admission to the opening of their new Rooftop Sculpture Garden. The Rooftop Garden features two open-air spaces and a glass pavilion with views of both the San Francisco skyline and the museum's sculptural works.

The 16th Annual SFMOMA Artists Warehouse Sale at Fort Mason starts tonight with a special preview event for those who want first dibs on the goods.

It may not be the best moment to be celebrating the blind indulgence of American consumer (and drug) culture, but fashion designer Ken Courtney of Ju$t Another Rich Kid is nonetheless forging ahead with an ironic tribute to everyone who enjoys the booger sugar: a limited edition set of silver and gold coke spoons crafted by five well known designers. The set is a kind of art object titled "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not." and each spoon in the set was designed by a different designer: Courtney himself, Terence Koh, Various Projects, Daniel Jackson and SF's own Nice Collective. Courtney's original spoon, inspired by a 1970s McDonald's coffee stirrer that was banned, allegedly, because of its popularity for use in snorting cocaine - link NSFW - was recently purchased by the SFMoMA for their design collection. It was part of a series called "Indulgences" which included a $5,000 pair of gold-dipped high-top Nikes.

         

For the next year, patrons and passersby can enjoy Kerry James Marshall's monumental mural exhibit in SFMOMA's Evelyn and Walter Haas Atrium. Marshall depicts the rarely represented slaves who inhabited Monticello and Mount Vernon through a vibrant connect-the-dots theme, encouraging us all to re-write history together. At the press preview, Marshall pointed out that the two Founding Fathers are still relevant today -- books are still being written about them, and therefore, we can continue discovering the whole truth about our collective history. "There's always a way to talk about it," Marshall explained.

God, this story needs to die.

"Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the SFMOMA is a first rate asshole."

First, the excitement of the election, and now the excitement of a (for many people) three day weekend.

We know that SFist has been a bit snarky about Congressional candidate Krissy Keefer, so we'd like to make amends by promoting a great event presented by Dance Mission, an organization that Ms. Keefer co-founded. Manifesti-val is Dance Brigade's three week long Festival of Dance and Social Change. Tonight, catch by E.P.I taph, an evening of new, cutting-edge, political works. From transgendered housewives to beatboxing aliens, from underworld angels to "Triple Blooded Threats," this goes down at Dance Mission Theater (3316 24th Street across from the 24th St BART Station) at 8pm.

We know we're saving up our money for countless Halloween-themed events this weekend, so tonight we're all about the free stuff.

Saturday:We're hitting the San Francisco Peoples’ Organization “Auctions Off Downtown" event at 111 Minna. There'll be live music, film screenings, and the aforementioned auction with Matt Gonzalez taking the auctioneer's podium. This we've got to see! It all starts at 7:30.

You may want to metaphorically brace yourself under a solid table (and not in a doorjamb, for crying out loud!) -- 2006 is not only the year of the Congressional midterm elections, but also the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Quake and Fire (April 18, 1906). (Dude, they had orders to shoot to kill looters back then! Gavin better not try any of that!) To kick off the centennial, two local art museums are now featuring 1906 earthquake themed shows -- the SF MOMA is featuring historic photographs of the disaster, along with (starting in March) films from the Library of Congress of the quake itself, and panel discussions about the commemoration of disasters through photography. Meanwhile, the Legion of Honor is sponsoring the show "After the Ruins: Rephotographing the San Francisco Quake And Fire," where photographer Mark Klett has visited sites of famous 1906 photographs and reshot them as they are today: so there's shots of Union Square, the Presidio, Dolores Park, and (as seen above) the Ferry Building, then and now. And before you ask -- yes, both the SFMOMA and the Legion of Honor are seismically sound. Composite photograph of Ferry Building from 1906 and 2006 from the Legion of Honor website