Events on Friday, April 11
Friday 4/11 @ Meridian Gallery
Meridian Gallery holds court with an experimental-music salon of local soundsmiths that is befitting of its new digs' elegant Second Empire-style...
Friday 4/11 @ Slim's
Since forming in Swindon in 1987, MBM have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving out a...
Friday 4/11 @ New Langton Arts
Given the recent rash of fraudulent memoirs, there couldn't be a more timely moment to celebrate the godfather of literary hoaxes,...
Friday 4/11 @ 12 Galaxies
John Sturges' 1960 western The Magnificent Seven features Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and four other icons of grizzled manhood,...
Friday 4/11 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
As Little Richard sings over the opening credits to Frank Tashlin's giddy rock 'n roll comedy The Girl Can't Help It,...
Friday 4/11 @ Matador
The masterminds behind Challenger!, a collective of local DJs that includes Shortround and Sweats the Bed, have been setting up their...
Friday 4/11 @ The Independent
One of the few experimental bands that are actually pleasing to the ears, Dirty Projectors combine dizzying, scooped-out harmonies with choppy...
Friday 4/11 @ The Fillmore
The London-based Morcheeba have been churning out sleepy, sexy tunes since "trip-hop" was a novel phrase. In the years since, the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ Xenodrome
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ Hypnodrome
Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have...
Friday 4/11 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments....
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Friday 4/11 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ RayKo Photo Center
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous....
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ Various locations
Hitchcock, Scorsese, Kubrick, Tarantino, the Coen brothers — the book of cinematic history is filled with the names of male filmmakers...
Friday 4/11 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Friday 4/11 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Friday 4/11 @ 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,...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
Friday 4/11 @ Jancar Jones Gallery
Jancar Jones Gallery consecrates its new space with a group exhibition showcasing works from Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, and Chadwick Rantanen....
Friday 4/11 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 —...
Friday 4/11 @ The Crucible
Departing from the classical mode of ballet, the artists, dancers, and musicians at the Crucible pay modern homage to Igor Stravinsky's...
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Friday 4/11 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox...
Ukranian Citizens and Strangers
Friday 4/11 @ Queen's Nail Annex
Four Walls founder Julie Deamer organized Ukrainian Citizens and Strangers, an impressive collaboration between nine American and Ukrainian artists. Filled with...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Friday 4/11 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
