Events on Thursday, May 1
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Cowell Theater
Roger Housden's most recent book contains a quiet, candid kind of hope. Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ The Independent
Brian Jonestown Massacre tambourine player Joel Gion came off as a bit of a clown in Dig!, the 2004 documentary portrait...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Swedish American Hall
As a singer, guitarist, and harmonica player in the Swedish indie-pop group Peter, Bjorn & John, Peter Morén helped propel the...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Renowned translator and essayist Daniel Mendelsohn visits the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco to discuss his Sisyphean personal history, The...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco
In the spirit of May Day's celebration of labor over greed, more than a dozen notable Bay Area artists, writers, performers,...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Hemlock Tavern
New York singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia gets better with every album. Hushed, introspective folk isn't unique in itself, but Nastasia's careful lyrics...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ CELLspace
Composed of more than 2000 hand-printed cloth swatches, Veronica Graham's sprawling installation Bonus Map takes over CELLspace's wall like cartographic kudzu....
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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...
San Francisco International Film Festival
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Self Storage
Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Xenodrome
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Various locations
Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura
In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 5/ 1 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
