Events on Thursday, April 10
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Thursday 4/10 @ Phyllis Wattis Theater
Ever since his breakthrough book City of Quartz — a sustained attack on Los Angeles' social architecture — Mike Davis has...
Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader
Thursday 4/10 @ Artists' Television Access
With so much of experimental cinema's history now available in museum collections and deluxe DVD sets, some younger alchemists are taking...
Thursday 4/10 @ City Lights
"We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world...
Thursday 4/10 @ 12 Galaxies
Although Scout Niblett is frequently compared to Cat Power, the singer's razor-sharp vocals and sudden switches from skeletal blues to sludgy...
Thursday 4/10 @ Zellerbach Hall
Because commercial radio found his songs too long or too offensive, massive stardom often eluded folk hero Arlo Guthrie. Still, the...
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Thursday 4/10 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In 1969, Japan was wracked by violent political protest over the country's involvement in the Vietnam War and its signing of...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/10 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Rock Paper Scissors' Science Fair hosts much stranger exhibits than those found in elementary schools' baking-soda-and-vinegar volcano competitions. Guest curator Andrew...
Thursday 4/10 @ Various locations
Hitchcock, Scorsese, Kubrick, Tarantino, the Coen brothers — the book of cinematic history is filled with the names of male filmmakers...
Thursday 4/10 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
2002 was the year long-time Mission fixture Chris Johanson achieved large-scale success in the art world, landing a site-specific installation in...
Thursday 4/10 @ Hyde Street Gallery
Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses...
Thursday 4/10 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Through haunting, polychromatic compositions, the late Jeremy Blake's digital-video works sought to unify the realms of painting and film. When Blake...
Thursday 4/10 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to...
Thursday 4/10 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Thursday 4/10 @ Giant Robot
It's not often that Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is spoken of in the same breath as Akira Kurosawa's...
Thursday 4/10 @ Berkeley Art Museum
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to...
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Thursday 4/10 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox...
Thursday 4/10 @ Galería de la Raza
Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration,...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Thursday 4/10 @ Sculpturesite Gallery
One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works...
Thursday 4/10 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Thursday 4/10 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
In the '60s, Japanese studio Nikkatsu created a super-stylized new breed of action film — one that reflected many of the...
Thursday 4/10 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's...
Thursday 4/10 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Thursday 4/10 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments....
Thursday 4/10 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Thursday 4/10 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's...
Thursday 4/10 @ Femina Potens Gallery
Radical, queer-friendly gallery Femina Potens presents Neu Wave Feminism, a bold collection of subversive works that spotlights feminism's shifting borders. The...
Thursday 4/10 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Thursday 4/10 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Thursday 4/10 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Thursday 4/10 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
Thursday 4/10 @ Jancar Jones Gallery
Jancar Jones Gallery consecrates its new space with a group exhibition showcasing works from Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, and Chadwick Rantanen....
Thursday 4/10 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Few filmmakers have elicited as strong and divided a response from critics and cinephiles as Portuguese director Pedro Costa. He isn't...
Thursday 4/10 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture —...
Thursday 4/10 @ The Crucible
Departing from the classical mode of ballet, the artists, dancers, and musicians at the Crucible pay modern homage to Igor Stravinsky's...
Thursday 4/10 @ Silverman Gallery
Taking its title from a Black Sabbath tune, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough's solo show Symptom of the Universe taps Ozzy's evil vibes...
Thursday 4/10 @ Johansson Projects
Paul Hayes' folded-paper-and-wire sculpture Cultivated Momentum hangs from Johansson Projects' ceiling like a recycled-kelp forest, its black squiggles calling fish to...
Thursday 4/10 @ RayKo Photo Center
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous....
