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Philip Glass @80:
The Philip Glass Ensemble, together with the San Francisco Girls Chorus and students from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, celebrates the composer’s 80th birthday with a performance of his “Music With Changing Parts.” 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., S.F. www.performances.org
“Art & Vinyl: Artists & the Record Album From Picasso to the Present”:
A Josef Albers record jacket that looks like the percussion on the LP inside must sound: That’s just one of the terrific, mostly rare objects in this lighthearted review of designs by JeanMichel Basquiat, Sophie Calle, Jean Dubuffet, Marlene Dumas, Yves Klein, Barbara Kruger, Sol LeWitt, Chris Ofili, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and many others. Free. Through March 3. Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary St., Fourth Floor, S.F. https://fraenkelgallery. com
The Retrieval:
Just in case you missed our feature on Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle’s solo exhibition, put the show on your must-do list now. “The Retrieval” is her multidisciplinary response to the ongoing and mounting disappearances of black women. She offers up abstract portraits of missing women in a way juxtaposing grief and joy that has to be experienced to be understood. On display through April 7. San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery, S.F. www.sfarts commission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/retrieval
Neeli Cherkovski:
The San Francisco poet honors his fellow Beat writers in his latest work, published by Lithic Press. He’ll read from “Elegy for My Beat Generation” at City Lights. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20. www.city lights.com