Events on Saturday, May 24
Saturday 5/24 @ 21 Grand
The late-'70s musical moment known as "no wave" delivered a short, sharp shock to New York's downtown art/film/music nexus. Viewing punk...
Saturday 5/24 @ Slim's
Thousands of bands imitate Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer, but few do so with the finesse of Dead Meadow, a power...
Saturday 5/24 @ Cafe du Nord
It took San Francisco's Last of the Blacksmiths three years to release Young Family Song, the followup to their self-titled debut....
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ Triple Base
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and...
Saturday 5/24 @ Harrison St btwn 16th and 22nd Sts
Grab your finest feathered tail-piece, some timbales, and plastic beads, and get ready to shake your coconuts for Carnaval. The two-day...
Saturday 5/24 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
SF International Arts Festival
Saturday 5/24 @ Various locations
The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at...
Saturday 5/24 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Saturday 5/24 @ Ratio 3
Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ Electric Works
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting...
Saturday 5/24 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Saturday 5/24 @ Roxie Theater
Beloved throughout the world as a symbol of enlightenment and peace, the Dalai Lama has achieved significant acclaim as a world...
Saturday 5/24 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Saturday 5/24 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ Cerrito Speakeasy Theater
Eddie Muller has done as much as anyone to ensure that film noir gets its due in America. He touches down...
Saturday 5/24 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Embracing the same kind of provocative ambiguity and loose brushwork found in Luc Tuymans' paintings, New Zealand native Saskia Leek structures...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ Park Life
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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....
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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...
Saturday 5/24 @ 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....
Saturday 5/24 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
