Events on Friday, May 2
Friday 5/ 2 @ The Hive Gallery
From water to sky to jeans, we are surrounded by the color blue, and artists from cave painters to Yves Klein...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Great American Music Hall
Sons and Daughters are the offspring of Arab Strap, the gloomy Scottish band that successfully married pub-life pessimism to sharp indie-rock...
Friday 5/ 2 @ The Independent
Check your backpacks at the door — Lyrics Born is out to party. Everywhere at Once, the San Francisco-based rapper's third...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Mighty
Bpitch Control labelmates Ellen Allien and Sascha Funke take charge at Mighty tonight, globetrotting together in support of Funke's new album,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Roxie Theater
When Grant Gee's documentary portrait of the iconic Manchester post-punk band Joy Division played at Yerba Buena last January, legions of...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Xenodrome
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown...
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Friday 5/ 2 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Various locations
Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Red Vic
It's difficult to imagine a Buddhist meditation retreat in a maximum-security prison, but at Donaldson Correctional Facility in
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Zellerbach Hall
A worldwide symbol of youthful optimism, The Little Prince — set to music for the San Francisco Opear by British composer...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Friday 5/ 2 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Hypnodrome
Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
San Francisco International Film Festival
Friday 5/ 2 @ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...
