All events on Sunday April 20

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Film
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Sunday Apr 20 (1pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
... er a matter of weeks, Peter Watkins shot the six-hour epic La Commune (Paris, 1871) for French television with a cast... View details »
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
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Thread
Sunday Apr 20 (noon–6pm) @ San Francisco Design Center Galleria
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Promoted by the fashion-forward, brother-and-sister team of Alex and Lara Matthews, Thread is one of San Francisco's most anticipated events for the stylish set. The... View details »
Thread
Art
Spring Open House
Sunday Apr 20 (noon–5pm) @ Headlands Center for the Arts
Free
The Headlands Center for the Arts throws open its creaky wooden doors for a spring open house, the perfect opportunity to get off the beaten... View details »
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Earth Day
Sunday Apr 20 (11am–5pm) @ McLaren Park
Free
With everything going green these days, it's sometimes difficult to know when you're genuinely making a difference and when you're just buying a catchphrase. Happily,... View details »
Earth Day
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Northern California Cherry Blossom Parade
Sunday Apr 20 (1–3pm) @ Post St btwn Polk & Fillmore Sts
Free
Cherry blossoms are revered in Japanese culture for their ephemeral beauty, and, on this side of the Pacific, they're a much-anticipated sign of spring. The... View details »
Northern California Cherry Blossom Parade

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Art
An-My Lê
Sunday Apr 20 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
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Gilbert & George
Sunday Apr 20 @ de Young Museum More times »
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work in this mammoth exhibition... View details »
Gilbert & George
Art: Photography
Friedlander
Sunday Apr 20 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
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Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a... View details »
Friedlander
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Enrique Chagoya
Sunday Apr 20 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to California from Mexico City... View details »
Enrique Chagoya
Art: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Sunday Apr 20 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's perhaps best-known for her... View details »
Annie Leibovitz
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The Fabric of Cultures
Sunday Apr 20 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture — as an integral element... View details »
The Fabric of Cultures
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In Collaboration
Sunday Apr 20 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
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San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
In Collaboration
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Drama and Desire
Sunday Apr 20 (10am–5pm) @ Asian Art Museum More times »
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of ukiyo-e (literally, "pictures of... View details »
Drama and                    Desire
Art: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Sunday Apr 20 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for lack of documentation. The... View details »
Protest in Paris 1968
Art: Photography
Whimsy
Sunday Apr 20 (10am–8pm) @ RayKo Photo Center More times »
Free
Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous. The photos share a... View details »
Whimsy
Art
The Way That We Rhyme
Sunday Apr 20 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
The Way That We Rhyme
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Science Fair
Sunday Apr 20 (noon–7pm) @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective More times »
Free
Rock Paper Scissors' Science Fair hosts much stranger exhibits than those found in elementary schools' baking-soda-and-vinegar volcano competitions. Guest curator Andrew Thompson has compiled creative... View details »
Science Fair
Performing Arts: Comedy
Point Break LIVE!
Sunday Apr 20 @ Xenodrome More times »
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown theater and it's, like,... View details »
Point Break LIVE!
Art: Photography
Robert Adler
Sunday Apr 20 (2–8pm) @ Hyde Street Gallery More times »
Free
Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses on the grit behind... View details »
Robert Adler
Art
Self-Storage
Sunday Apr 20 (noon–4pm) @ Self Storage More times »
Free
Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic scrapbook that documents the... View details »
Self-Storage
Art
Neu Wave Feminism
Sunday Apr 20 (noon–6pm) @ Femina Potens Gallery More times »
Free
Radical, queer-friendly gallery Femina Potens presents Neu Wave Feminism, a bold collection of subversive works that spotlights feminism's shifting borders. The stripped-down look at female... View details »
Neu Wave Feminism
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Paul Sietsema
Sunday Apr 20 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
Paul Sietsema