Events on Thursday, May 15
Thursday 5/15 @ Rickshaw Stop
To cap off the city's annual Bike to Work Day, the San Francisco Bike Coalition hosts a congratulatory celebration for everyone...
Thursday 5/15 @ The Independent
Even alone on a stage, lanky young'un Langhorne Slim and his red Guild guitar get a crowd more riled up than...
Thursday 5/15 @ Cody's Books
Deeming them proto-riot grrrls would be oversimplifying matters. But Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon, who all rose to prominence...
Thursday 5/15 @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
After more than 40 years in broadcast journalism, it's "pushy cookie" Barbara Walters' turn to dish. And dish she does in...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/15 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Embracing the same kind of provocative ambiguity and loose brushwork found in Luc Tuymans' paintings, New Zealand native Saskia Leek structures...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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....
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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....
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ GLBT Historical Society
Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride...
Thursday 5/15 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ Park Life
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,...
Thursday 5/15 @ Red Vic
The identity of every modern Jew is in some way built upon the memory of the Holocaust. As the generation of...
Thursday 5/15 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Thursday 5/15 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
He's known in France as one of the most talented filmmakers to emerge after the New Wave, but Philippe Garrel remains...
Thursday 5/15 @ Ratio 3
Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
