Events on Wednesday, April 16
Raging Bull (1980) and Rocky (1976)
Wednesday 4/16 @ The Castro Theatre
Robert de Niro took home the Best Actor Oscar for Raging Bull — a no-brainer, given his bruising performance as tenacious,...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Artists' Television Access
Male hairdresser meets skinhead; hairdresser becomes obsessed with skinhead; skinhead's radical-filmmaker sister helps the two hook up; much hilarity (and sex)...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Rickshaw Stop
Berkeley's John Ringhofer occasionally plays with both Sufjan Stevens and Danielson, and his solo work as Half-Handed Cloud fits pretty neatly...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/16 @ The Crucible
Departing from the classical mode of ballet, the artists, dancers, and musicians at the Crucible pay modern homage to Igor Stravinsky's...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Xenodrome
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown...
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Wednesday 4/16 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox...
Wednesday 4/16 @ RayKo Photo Center
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous....
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
