Events on Saturday, April 19
Saturday 4/19 @ HP Pavilion
Just because he performs with a marching band and likes to go on crazy rants at awards shows, Kanye West is...
Saturday 4/19 @ 103 Harriet St
It's an MP3 blogger's paradise tonight at 103 Harriet, as Kanye's DJ of choice tears up the turntables with his signature...
Saturday 4/19 @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
Bob Calhoun spent seven years of his life making San Francisco a little more bizarre with Incredibly Strange Wrestling — performance...
The Sad, the Funny, and the Dark Side of Parenting
Saturday 4/19 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
From Norman Bates' mom to Britney Spears, modern culture is full of bad parenting. Archivist and cinephile Dennis Nyback presents three...
Ongoing Events
DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ Xenodrome
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown...
Saturday 4/19 @ White Walls Gallery
Greg Lamarche is crazy about the letters of the alphabet. It's a fascination that dates back to his years as a...
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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...
Saturday 4/19 @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the...
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ Hypnodrome
Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have...
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Saturday 4/19 @ The Haunted Barn
Mark Perez's super-sized version of the classic children's board game has to be seen — and seen in action — to...
Saturday 4/19 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Saturday 4/19 @ 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...
Saturday 4/19 @ Self Storage
Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic...
Saturday 4/19 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Saturday 4/19 @ 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...
