Events on Wednesday, April 9
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...
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...
Ongoing Events
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
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....
