Events on Saturday, April 26
Saturday 4/26 @ Mission Dolores Park
From advice to handmade goods to unwanted junk and even (gasp!) hugs, everything at this feel-good trading post in Dolores Park...
Saturday 4/26 @ The Independent
Iceland has an impressive reputation for spawning ambient, quirky, and occasionally neurotic bands and musicians (Björk, Sigur Rós, Bang Gang), and...
Saturday 4/26 @ Red Hill Books
Neal Pollack is trying to be the coolest dad ever, and he wants everyone to know how he did it. From...
A Benefit for Burlesque Legends
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ Paramount Theatre
It was a pretty sweet moment when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won the Oscar for their song "Falling Slowly" from...
Saturday 4/26 @ Mezzanine
Tonight, open your ears to every Lite-Brite shade of techno in the spectrum with a DJ set by Simian Mobile Disco....
Saturday 4/26 @ The Warfield
On Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp's newest release, the sound is sweet and slow, an imaginative soundtrack to a somber summer day in...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Various locations
Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Lies You Can Dance To and Color Me America
Saturday 4/26 @ Project Artaud Theater
As part of ODC's series For the Record: Dancers Debate the Body Politic, the local company presents two new works by...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Xenodrome
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Saturday 4/26 @ Hypnodrome
Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Intersection for the Arts
It's a pretty safe bet that elementary schools won't soon be competing with downtown museums and banks for a top architect's...
San Francisco International Film Festival
Saturday 4/26 @ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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...
