Events on Wednesday, April 9

Design Green Now

Special Event

Design Green Now

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Timken Lecture Hall

Over the past few years, green architecture and sustainability have become major concerns in the design world. Design Green Now, a... 

Literary Death Match 8: A Poetic Poetry Beating

Books: Reading

Literary Death Match 8

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Rickshaw Stop

  An American Idol for the literary masses, Literary Death Match brings the smackdown to a bookish and booze-loving crowd. With... 

Halou w/ Michael Zapruder

Music

Halou

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Cafe du Nord

Bay Area dream-pop group Halou take up a Wednesday-night residency at Cafe du Nord throughout April. The trio's new Sawtooth EP... 

Ongoing Events

<em> Lautrec in Leather: Chuck Arnett and the Birth of the San Francisco Scene</em>

Art

Chuck Arnett

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ GLBT Historical Society

June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo... 

San Francisco Women's Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Women's Film Festival

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Various locations

Hitchcock, Scorsese, Kubrick, Tarantino, the Coen brothers — the book of cinematic history is filled with the names of male filmmakers... 

<em>Science Fair</em>

Art

Science Fair

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

Enrique Chagoya: <em> Borderlandia </em>

Art

Enrique Chagoya

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough: <em>Symptom of the Universe</em>

Art

Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>The Cool School </em>

Film

The Cool School

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Roxie Theater

These days, referring to the LA art scene as a contradiction in terms is an unfounded cliché. Back in the early... 

<em>Feral</em>

Art

Feral

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ The Luggage Store

In Feral, Monica Canilao and Swoon build a wild, creative world out of layers of urban flotsam and jetsam, fabric scraps,... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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... 

Chris Johanson

Art

Chris Johanson

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Jack Hanley Gallery

2002 was the year long-time Mission fixture Chris Johanson achieved large-scale success in the art world, landing a site-specific installation in... 

<em>Drama and                    Desire</em>: <em>Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690&ndash;1850</em>

Art

Drama and Desire

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Asian Art Museum

On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of... 

The Crucible's Fire Ballet: Stravinsky's <em>Firebird: L'oiseau de feu</em>

Dance

Stravinsky's Firebird

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ The Crucible

Departing from the classical mode of ballet, the artists, dancers, and musicians at the Crucible pay modern homage to Igor Stravinsky's... 

Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa

Film

The Films of Pedro Costa

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

Few filmmakers have elicited as strong and divided a response from critics and cinephiles as Portuguese director Pedro Costa. He isn't... 

<em>Art & Artifice: 75 Years of Design at San Francisco Ballet</em>

Special Event

Art & Artifice

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Museum of Performance & Design

Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the... 

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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

Art

Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Hosfelt Gallery

Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox... 

Annie Leibovitz: <em>A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005</em>

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

Victor Cartagena: <em>The Invisible Nation</em>

Art

Victor Cartagena

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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,... 

<em>At the Movies</em>

Art

At the Movies

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization</em>

Fashion/Style

The Fabric of Cultures

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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 —... 

Jeremy Blake: <em>Winchester Redux</em>

Art

Jeremy Blake

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ de Young Museum

Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work... 

<em>The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics</em>

Art

The Way That We Rhyme

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

Paul McCarthy: <em>Low Life Slow Life: Part 1</em>

Art

Paul McCarthy

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's... 

<em>Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg</em>

Art: Photography

Protest in Paris 1968

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Berkeley Art Museum

Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for... 

<em>Whimsy: Photography by BAPC</em>

Art: Photography

Whimsy

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ RayKo Photo Center

Whimsy, a group show by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective, manages to be lighthearted without coming off as frivolous....