Gelatin silver print Truck and Sign, 1928-1930, by WALKER EVANS.
CULTURE SAN FRANCISCO
In the Machine For the largest exhibition ever at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, director and chief curator Anthony Huberman has gathered a global group of artists who disrupt systems and infrastructures—warping the everyday. “Mechanisms” includes well-known photographers such as Louise Lawler alongside younger voices such as sculptor Zarouhie Abdalian. Oct. 12-Feb. 24. 360 Kansas St., S.F., 415-355-9670; wattis.org.
SAN FRANCISCO
PEOPLE Watching Fresh from the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Clément Chéroux, the new senior curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has launched a large-scale retrospective of American photographer Walker Evans. Consisting of more than 400 items, including inspirational ephemera, vintage prints and photographs documenting the Great Depression for the Farm Security
In Joint (ii), 2016, ZAROUHIE ABDALIAN sanded down hand tools to remove their functionality.
Administration, the exhibit explores Evans’ obsession with mass culture, signage and street life, elevating the mundane to the eternal. Sept. 30-Feb. 4. 151 3rd St., S.F., 415-357-4000; sfmoma.org.
WESTWOOD
Garden Party
RUTH RIPPON’s Bottle (green with opal), circa 1979.
The neighborhood glam quotient goes up a notch in Westwood this month at the Hammer Museum’s annual Gala in the Garden, which this year honors director Ava DuVernay and writer and theater critic Hilton Als. L.A.-based sibling trio Haim performs, and Bottega Veneta sponsors. Oct. 14. 10899 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 310-443-7081; hammer.ucla.edu.
Cultre (bits) Last year’s gala honored Laurie Anderson and Todd Haynes.
SAN FRANCISCO
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SACRAMENTO
Unearthed Timed to her 90th birthday, Sacramento native Ruth Rippon is the subject of a comprehensive survey at the Crocker Museum of Art this October. A key player in the West Coast ceramics movement of the last century, Rippon’s stunning works encompass everything from ancient Greek themes to pop art and are beloved far beyond her hometown. “Exuberant Earth: Ceramics by Ruth Rippon,” Oct. 29-Feb. 4. 216 O St., Sacramento, 916-808-7000; crockerart.org.
“Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter” marks the first time many of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s iconic works can be seen in the States. The Legion of Honor exhibit also examines Klimt’s only meeting with sculptor Auguste Rodin, in 1902. Oct.14-Jan. 28. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, S.F., 415-750-3600; famsf.org.
GUSTAV KLIMT’s Johanna Staude, 1917.
