Events on Saturday, April 12
Saturday 4/12 @ Small Press Distribution
Without independent book distributors championing tiny, not-so-wealthy publishing houses, much of the world's finest literature wouldn't be so easy to find....
Saturday 4/12 @ Phyllis Wattis Theater
SFMOMA's Lee Friedlander retrospective provides the occasion for a fascinating round-table discussion on the shifting American landscape, both physical and...
Saturday 4/12 @ Great American Music Hall
Hot Challenge and Panda lit up Flavorpill's radar as emerging purveyors of bubblegum pop and goofy, indie-dance-party bliss. Supported by local...
Saturday 4/12 @ NASA Ames Research Center
As part of a worldwide celebration of space exploration, Yuri's Night (named for Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space) brings...
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Saturday 4/12 @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Their name might conjure visions of Krautrock, but the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin are actually classical musicians. The Berliners formed...
Sherlock Jr., The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Nosferatu
Saturday 4/12 @ The Castro Theatre
In the classic and opulent environs of the Castro Theatre, Club Foot Orchestra provides live musical accompaniment to the silent films...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ Xenodrome
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ Hypnodrome
Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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
Saturday 4/12 @ Jancar Jones Gallery
Jancar Jones Gallery consecrates its new space with a group exhibition showcasing works from Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, and Chadwick Rantanen....
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Saturday 4/12 @ The Crucible
Departing from the classical mode of ballet, the artists, dancers, and musicians at the Crucible pay modern homage to Igor Stravinsky's...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Ukranian Citizens and Strangers
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ RayKo Photo Center
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous....
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ Various locations
Hitchcock, Scorsese, Kubrick, Tarantino, the Coen brothers — the book of cinematic history is filled with the names of male filmmakers...
Saturday 4/12 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Saturday 4/12 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Saturday 4/12 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Saturday 4/12 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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 —...
Saturday 4/12 @ Novellus Theater
Charles Anderson's Company C has been a constant fixture and innovative force in the Bay Area since its inception in 2002,...
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Saturday 4/12 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
