Events on Friday, May 16
Friday 5/16 @ Bimbo's
Hailing from the land of ABBA, Robyn reminds us that Swedes are second-to-none when it comes to insanely catchy, Euro-infused pop...
Friday 5/16 @ AsiaSF
After throwing costume tributes to 1979's The Warriors and to the cheesy proms of Reagan youth, Stiletto — SF's party producers...
Grime City Three-Year Anniversary
Friday 5/16 @ Anu
No matter what you call it — garage, grime, 2-step, dubstep — London's chest-pummeling indigenous music has had a tough time...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ Landmark Bridge Theater
Chinese director Hsiao-hsien Hou's glorious response to the 1956 classic The Red Balloon commences with a long, nearly silent scene of...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ 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,...
Friday 5/16 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Friday 5/16 @ Self Storage
Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Friday 5/16 @ 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....
Friday 5/16 @ Ratio 3
Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Friday 5/16 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
Heavily censored when it was first released in the US, Lucio Fulci's stunning gore-fest The Beyond was restored to its original...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Friday 5/16 @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Friday 5/16 @ Park Life
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,...
Friday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
Friday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Friday 5/16 @ Electric Works
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting...
Friday 5/16 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Embracing the same kind of provocative ambiguity and loose brushwork found in Luc Tuymans' paintings, New Zealand native Saskia Leek structures...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura
In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ 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....
Friday 5/16 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Friday 5/16 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Friday 5/16 @ 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...
Friday 5/16 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
