Events on Saturday, October 4
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Civic Center
It's time to take those dust-caked fur pants and fairy wings you sported during Burning Man to the dry cleaners. You'll...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Great American Music Hall
Leave it to heady avant-garde rockers Deerhoof to leak sheet music to build hype for an upcoming album. Rather than go...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ The Warfield
More than a decade into their career, Oregon's Dandy Warhols have proven that if they've got anything, it's longevity. Continuing their...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Million Fishes
Tussle is one of the few bands to survive disco punk, and their new album Cream Cuts is a triumphant expansion...
Ongoing Events
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 10/ 4 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ American Conservatory Theater
Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge,...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
The curators of Dead Channels never fail to fully exploit — or graphically illustrate — the many senses of the phrase...
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Johansson Projects
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Artists' Television Access
Come and support Artists’ Television Access, a bastion of Bay Area independent arts, during their annual Film & Video festival. Opening...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Fecal Face's Chicago correspondent, Ryan Christian, heads west with a talent pool plucked from all over the map — New York,...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Oakland Museum of California
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ David Cunningham Projects
The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition...
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Saturday 10/ 4 @ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations
The topic of Suckered: Writers Confess a Profound Lack of Judgment, Litquake's star-studded opening night, is eerily prescient, given our country's...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Cartoon Art Museum
If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Saturday 10/ 4 @ SF Camerawork
This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations
BhangraFest is San Francisco's way of vibrantly celebrating one of India's most popular styles of music. Learn the latest moves during...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Adobe Bookshop
In a world seemingly fueled by of-the-moment celebrity gossip, it's easy to forget that the public's fascination with the wealthy is...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Brava Theater Center
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ White Walls Gallery
Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama posters flooded city walls and the public consciousness earlier this year with a burst...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park hosts a weekend of live music spread across several stages, each boasting a lineup of world-class talent. Wait,...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Post Street Theatre
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ CELLspace
Hate Log strives to "transform the accumulation of the mundane into beauty," and the producers achieve that goal with a unique...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ County Fair Building
A novice to the vegetarian way of life may be overwhelmed at the thought of a diet stripped of all things...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Intersection for the Arts
With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations
The eighth annual Tease-O-Rama burlesque convention arrives in town with a schedule so packed that it's sure to make your tassels...
