Events on Friday, May 23
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
Friday 5/23 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
YBCA kicks off its weekend-long season of the witch with the 1968 abbreviated version of Benjamin Christensen's 1922 documentary/horror classic. Mixing...
Friday 5/23 @ Cafe du Nord
Rosin Coven, the Bay Area's much beloved "pagan lounge" players, need little introduction. The classically trained instrumentalists attack strings and percussion...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
Harmony Korine's much-anticipated directorial return finds the former enfant terrible trying a little tenderness. Korine has always been fascinated by bands...
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Friday 5/23 @ Park Life
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,...
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Friday 5/23 @ John Berggruen Gallery
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets...
Friday 5/23 @ 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...
SF International Arts Festival
Friday 5/23 @ Various locations
The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at...
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Roxie Theater
Beloved throughout the world as a symbol of enlightenment and peace, the Dalai Lama has achieved significant acclaim as a world...
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
The Dark Crystal's characters aren't your run-of-the-mill Muppets. They come from the planet Thra, whose dominant race, the UrSkeks, split into...
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Triple Base
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and...
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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...
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Friday 5/23 @ Jack Fischer Gallery
Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened,...
Friday 5/23 @ Oakland Museum of California
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That...
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Friday 5/23 @ SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio
In another era, Paul Cesewksi might have run off and joined the circus — the latter-day carny tinkers with metal and...
Friday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Southern Exposure
With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of...
Friday 5/23 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Friday 5/23 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
