Events on Saturday, May 10

YBCA presents What's the Big Idea Day

Art

What's the Big Idea Day

Saturday 5/10 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' open house lets viewers take in the big ideas the nonprofit has been engaging with... 

Mike Relm w/ Vin Sol

Music: Electronic

Mike Relm

Saturday 5/10 @ The Independent

SF's Mike Relm has made his name as a multimedia mashup artist, mixing and manipulating hip-hop beats and indie-rock gems while... 

Funny Girlz Tenth Anniversary: A Smorgasbord of Women Comedians

Comedy

Funny Girlz Tenth Anniversary

Saturday 5/10 @ Herbst Theater

Vanity Fair recently devoted a cover to the current reigning queens of comedy, from Tina Fey to Sarah Silverman. Good for... 

Tapes n' Tapes w/ White Denim

Music

Tapes n' Tapes

Saturday 5/10 @ The Fillmore

Tapes 'n Tapes have pretty a standard story: they started with a stellar Pitchfork review supplemented by the obligatory industry buzz... 

<em>Juxtapoz</em> and ArtNowSF present Veni Vidi Vici feat. Steinski w/ Souls of Mischief and Pacific Art Collective

Party

Veni Vidi Vici

Saturday 5/10 @ Club 6ix

Local art publication Juxtapoz always rolls out its issues with killer launch parties, but this time it's raising the bar. The... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Saturday 5/10 @ SFMOMA

Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape.... 

<em>Redbelt</em>

Film

Redbelt

Saturday 5/10 @ Various locations

Redbelt, David Mamet's latest, is an absorbing foray into the world of mixed martial arts. An unconventional fight film, Redbelt centers... 

Mother's Day Portrait Party

Art: Photography

Mother's Day Portrait Party

Saturday 5/10 @ Left Space Studio

Treat your mama right by forgoing the usual brunch plans and opt instead to sit for one of the nationally recognized... 

Saskia Leek: <em>Thick Air Method</em>

Art

Saskia Leek

Saturday 5/10 @ Jack Hanley Gallery

Embracing the same kind of provocative ambiguity and loose brushwork found in Luc Tuymans' paintings, New Zealand native Saskia Leek structures... 

Christian Marclay:<em> Stereo</em>

Art

Christian Marclay

Saturday 5/10 @ Fraenkel Gallery

Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in... 

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

Art

The Way That We Rhyme

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

Veronica Graham: <em>Bonus Map</em>

Art

Veronica Graham

Saturday 5/10 @ 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.... 

<em>Uncharted: Imaginary Landscapes </em>

Art

Uncharted

Saturday 5/10 @ Hayes Valley Market Gallery

Like intrepid cartographers, the nine artists featured in this exhibit navigate land and space from many angles. Their interpretations range in... 

<em>Contempt </em>(1963)

Film

Contempt 

Saturday 5/10 @ The Castro Theatre

Jean-Luc Godard's 45-year-old masterpiece Contempt is still a conundrum. Coming off a run of shoestring gems, the French New Wave icon... 

<em>In Collaboration: Early Works from the Media Arts Collection</em>

Art

In Collaboration

Saturday 5/10 @ SFMOMA

San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media... 

<em>The Little Prince</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

The Little Prince

Saturday 5/10 @ Zellerbach Hall

A worldwide symbol of youthful optimism, The Little Prince — set to music for the San Francisco Opear by British composer... 

Gareth Moore

Art

Gareth Moore

Saturday 5/10 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Vancouver artist Gareth Moore takes hold of the reins at the Wattis, presenting the ninth solo exhibition in the gallery's ongoing... 

<em>Quarter Century: </em>Creativity Explored's 25th Anniversary

Art

Quarter Century

Saturday 5/10 @ Creativity Explored

Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th... 

<em>Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle</em>

Art

Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

Curatorial Industries presents <em>Self-Storage</em>

Art

Self-Storage

Saturday 5/10 @ Self Storage

Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Saturday 5/10 @ de Young Museum

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

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

<em>Graduation</em>

Film

Graduation

Saturday 5/10 @ Landmark Opera Plaza

Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank... 

Inkie Whang: <em>American Debut</em>

Art

Inkie Whang

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

Peter Simon and Roger Steffens: <em>The Reggae Scrapbook</em>

Art: Photography

The Reggae Scrapbook

Saturday 5/10 @ Babylon Falling

The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and... 

<em>American Symbols: From Lady Liberty to the Stars and Stripes</em>

Art

American Symbols

Saturday 5/10 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art

Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations.... 

Weston Teruya and Michele Carlson: <em>How I Learned to...</em>

Art

How I Learned to...

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

<em>2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing</em>

Special Event

2nd Skin

Saturday 5/10 @ Exploratorium

With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing.... 

Lacey Jane Roberts: <em>The Master's Tools (Decay Goes Both Ways)</em>

Art

Lacey Jane Roberts

Saturday 5/10 @ Little Tree Gallery

Little Tree Gallery has now been fortified, thanks to Bay Area artist Lacey Jane Roberts' handwoven barbed-wire fence. Even though every... 

<em>The Memory Thief</em>

Film

The Memory Thief

Saturday 5/10 @ Red Vic

The identity of every modern Jew is in some way built upon the memory of the Holocaust. As the generation of... 

Enrique Chagoya: <em> Borderlandia </em>

Art

Enrique Chagoya

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

Duke Ellington's <em>Queenie Pie</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Queenie Pie

Saturday 5/10 @ Oakland Metro

Queenie Pie, jazz giant Duke Ellington's final large-scale work, receives the royal treatment from the Oakland Opera Theater. Ellington's muse was... 

Paul Sietsema: <em>New Work</em>

Art

Paul Sietsema

Saturday 5/10 @ SFMOMA

Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles... 

Robert Adler: <em>Burlesque</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Adler

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

Sarah Wagner: <em>Nuclear Family</em>

Art

Sarah Wagner

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Art & Artifice

Saturday 5/10 @ Museum of Performance & Design

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

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

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

Alex Lukas and Brian Willmont: <em>Feudal Echo</em>

Art

Feudal Echo

Saturday 5/10 @ Park Life

Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,... 

<em>Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector</em>

Art

Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector

Saturday 5/10 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design

Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the... 

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

Art: Photography

Protest in Paris 1968

Saturday 5/10 @ 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>Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors </em>(1964)

Film

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Saturday 5/10 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is Russian director Sergei Parajanov's eccentric take on the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a Carpathian... 

Ryan McGinley: <em>Spring and by Summer Fall</em>

Art: Photography

Ryan McGinley

Saturday 5/10 @ Ratio 3

Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like... 

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

Art

Victor Cartagena

Saturday 5/10 @ 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>The Question Is Known: (W)here Is Latin American / Latino Art</em>

Art

The Question Is Known

Saturday 5/10 @ 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... 

Gina Borg

Art

Gina Borg

Saturday 5/10 @ Jancar Jones Gallery

Bay Area artist Gina Borg's small works on canvas and paper are a gratifying addition to Jancar Jones' snug new gallery... 

<em>The Rape of the Sabine Women</em>

Art

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Saturday 5/10 @ SFMOMA

Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...