Events on Tuesday, May 13

Robert Glück and Kevin Killian

Books: Reading

Robert Glück and Kevin Killian

Tuesday 5/13 @ GLBT Historical Society

Emerging in the early 1980s, Robert Glück and Kevin Killian were part of a loose cluster of Bay Area writers who... 

[SOLD OUT] Kate Nash

Music

Kate Nash

Tuesday 5/13 @ The Fillmore

For anyone who saw the appeal in Lily Allen's music, but not in Allen herself, Kate Nash is here to complete... 

Cloud Cult w/ Kid Dakota

Music

Cloud Cult

Tuesday 5/13 @ Bottom of the Hill

Minnesota-based art-rockers Cloud Cult have principles. Since musician/environmentalist Craig Minowa founded the band in 1995, the Cult have scorned lucrative record... 

Ongoing Events

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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>Redbelt</em>

Film

Redbelt

Tuesday 5/13 @ Various locations

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

Gareth Moore

Art

Gareth Moore

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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>Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle</em>

Art

Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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... 

<em>COLORS Past and Present</em>

Art

COLORS Past and Present

Tuesday 5/13 @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura

In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a... 

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

Special Event

Art & Artifice

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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>Contempt </em>(1963)

Film

Contempt 

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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

Tuesday 5/13 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art

American Symbols

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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.... 

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

Special Event

2nd Skin

Tuesday 5/13 @ Exploratorium

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

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

Art

Veronica Graham

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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.... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Tuesday 5/13 @ de Young Museum

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

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

Art

Feudal Echo

Tuesday 5/13 @ Park Life

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

<em>Graduation</em>

Film

Graduation

Tuesday 5/13 @ Landmark Opera Plaza

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

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

Art

Paul Sietsema

Tuesday 5/13 @ SFMOMA

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

Christian Marclay:<em> Stereo</em>

Art

Christian Marclay

Tuesday 5/13 @ Fraenkel Gallery

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

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

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Way That We Rhyme

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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... 

<em>The Memory Thief</em>

Film

The Memory Thief

Tuesday 5/13 @ Red Vic

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

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Tuesday 5/13 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art

Saskia Leek

Tuesday 5/13 @ Jack Hanley Gallery

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

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

Art

The Question Is Known

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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... 

<em>After the Revolution: Contemporary Photography from Tehran and California</em>

Art: Photography

After the Revolution

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

The Reggae Scrapbook

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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>Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector</em>

Art

Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Inkie Whang

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Sarah Wagner

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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>Quarter Century: </em>Creativity Explored's 25th Anniversary

Art

Quarter Century

Tuesday 5/13 @ Creativity Explored

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

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

Art

Victor Cartagena

Tuesday 5/13 @ 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 Rape of the Sabine Women</em>

Art

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Tuesday 5/13 @ SFMOMA

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