All events on Saturday April 26

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Music: Electronic
Simian Mobile Disco
Saturday Apr 26 (10pm) @ Mezzanine
Tonight, open your ears to every Lite-Brite shade of techno in the spectrum with a DJ set by Simian Mobile Disco. Besides being ace producers... View details »
Simian Mobile Disco
Music: Rock/Pop
The Swell Season
Saturday Apr 26 (2pm) @ Paramount Theatre
It was a pretty sweet moment when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won the Oscar for their song "Falling Slowly" from the sleeper indie-romance Once.... View details »
The Swell Season
Music: Rock/Pop
Mark Kozelek
Saturday Apr 26 (8pm) @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
American Music Club came first, but Mark Kozelek's Red House Painters helped solidify San Francisco's place as a hub for slowcore bands in the early... View details »
Mark Kozelek
Music: Electronic
Goldfrapp
Saturday Apr 26 (8pm) @ The Warfield
On Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp's newest release, the sound is sweet and slow, an imaginative soundtrack to a somber summer day in the '70s. Lush, simple... View details »
Goldfrapp
Reading
Neal Pollack
Saturday Apr 26 (7pm) @ Red Hill Books
Free
Neal Pollack is trying to be the coolest dad ever, and he wants everyone to know how he did it. From the smarmy, snarky essayist... View details »
Neal Pollack
Music: Electronic
Múm
Saturday Apr 26 (9pm) @ The Independent
Iceland has an impressive reputation for spawning ambient, quirky, and occasionally neurotic bands and musicians (Björk, Sigur Rós, Bang Gang), and Múm are no exception.... View details »
Múm
Art: Fair
Alchemy
Saturday Apr 26 (9pm–2am) @ CELLspace
Put away your wizard cap — no homunculi rise out of cauldrons at this event, nor do any copper pennies change into gold. This Alchemy... View details »
Alchemy
More Flavor: Fair
Really Really Free Market
Saturday Apr 26 (1–5pm) @ Mission Dolores Park
Free
From advice to handmade goods to unwanted junk and even (gasp!) hugs, everything at this feel-good trading post in Dolores Park is gratis. Flipping the... View details »
Really Really Free Market
Reading: Poetry
Artifact Poetry Series
Saturday Apr 26 (6pm) @ Oakland Art Gallery
Poet Ron Sillman has characterized Rae Armantrout's work as "the vertical anti-lyric." Tight and sinewy in structure, Armantrout's poems are condensed chain reactions in which... View details »
More Flavor: Benefit
A Benefit for Burlesque Legends
Saturday Apr 26 (9pm) @ Club Deluxe
Performances at Club Deluxe's glamor-centric Little Minsky's consistently titillate while tickling the funny bone. Tonight, MCs Kingfish and Eddie invite to the stage some of... View details »
A Benefit for Burlesque Legends

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Art
Tim Lee
Saturday Apr 26 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
Tim Lee
Art
An-My Lê
Saturday Apr 26 (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
Art
Gilbert & George
Saturday Apr 26 @ 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
Saturday Apr 26 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
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
Art
Enrique Chagoya
Saturday Apr 26 (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
Chuck Arnett
Saturday Apr 26 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
Chuck Arnett
Art: Photography
Annie Leibovitz
Saturday Apr 26 (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
More Flavor: Fashion
The Fabric of Cultures
Saturday Apr 26 (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
Performing Arts: Dance
Bay Area National Dance Week
Saturday Apr 26 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the city's landscape, packs street... View details »
Bay Area National Dance Week
Art
In Collaboration
Saturday Apr 26 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
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
Art
Drama and Desire
Saturday Apr 26 (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
Victor Cartagena
Saturday Apr 26 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza More times »
Free
Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration, class disparities, identity, and... View details »
Victor Cartagena
Art: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Saturday Apr 26 (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
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Saturday Apr 26 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery More times »
Free
One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works constructed from repurposed materials.... View details »
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Art
How I Learned to...
Saturday Apr 26 (noon–5pm) @ Intersection for the Arts More times »
Free
It's a pretty safe bet that elementary schools won't soon be competing with downtown museums and banks for a top architect's blueprints, though it's hard... View details »
How I Learned to...
Art
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Saturday Apr 26 (11am–5:30pm) @ Hosfelt Gallery More times »
Free
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox in the Mirror, her... View details »
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Art
Propogations
Saturday Apr 26 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
Free
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 mind. Hayes' organic, abstract... View details »
Propogations
Performing Arts: Theatre
Flaming Sin
Saturday Apr 26 (8pm) @ Hypnodrome More times »
Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have never been as deliciously... View details »
Flaming Sin
More Flavor: Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
Saturday Apr 26 @ Various locations More times »
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco International Film Festival is... View details »
San Francisco International Film Festival
Art
Feral
Saturday Apr 26 (noon–5pm) @ The Luggage Store More times »
Free
In Feral, Monica Canilao and Swoon build a wild, creative world out of layers of urban flotsam and jetsam, fabric scraps, and paper collage. Canilao's... View details »
Feral
Art
The Question Is Known
Saturday Apr 26 (10am–5pm) @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts More times »
Free
Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the work of mixed-media painter... View details »
The Question Is Known
Art
The Way That We Rhyme
Saturday Apr 26 (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
More Flavor: Exhibition
Art & Artifice
Saturday Apr 26 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
Free
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
Art & Artifice
Performing Arts: Comedy
Point Break LIVE!
Saturday Apr 26 @ 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
Saturday Apr 26 (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
Saturday Apr 26 (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
Performing Arts: Dance
Lies You Can Dance To and Color Me America
Saturday Apr 26 (8pm) @ Project Artaud Theater More times »
As part of ODC's series For the Record: Dancers Debate the Body Politic, the local company presents two new works by aerialist Jo Kreiter and... View details »
Lies You Can Dance To and Color Me America
Art
Neu Wave Feminism
Saturday Apr 26 (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
Film
Jellyfish
Saturday Apr 26 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses... View details »
Jellyfish
Art
Paul Sietsema
Saturday Apr 26 (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
Art
Greg Lamarche
Saturday Apr 26 (noon–7pm) @ White Walls Gallery More times »
Free
Greg Lamarche is crazy about the letters of the alphabet. It's a fascination that dates back to his years as a graffiti artist in Boston... View details »
Greg Lamarche