Events on Sunday, May 25
Sunday 5/25 @ Hayes Valley Park
Spanning several blocks in Hayes Valley — including Linden Alley, home to Blue Bottle coffee — the semi-annual Capsule street fair...
Sunday 5/25 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Like his 1928 masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath concerns a woman sentenced to...
Sunday 5/25 @ Rickshaw Stop
Italians Do It Better Records rolls into town to show off its crown jewels with a party hosted by Popscene veteran...
Sunday 5/25 @ Maiden Ln btwn Kearny St & Grant Ave
As Dave Chappelle proved, nothing says "good times" like a summer block party. With a killer lineup of bands and DJs...
Sunday 5/25 @ Great American Music Hall
After having much of their discography reissued by Water, Lilith, and Captain Trip Records, Berlin's Cluster take a well-deserved victory lap....
I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee
Sunday 5/25 @ Cody's Books
To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee made a rare public appearance in 2007, hanging on George W. Bush's arm as...
Sunday 5/25 @ Bottom of the Hill
From the beginning, the LA-based art rocker Ariel Pink has been a love-him-or-hate-him sort of guy. His mix of muddied home...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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....
Sunday 5/25 @ Roxie Theater
Beloved throughout the world as a symbol of enlightenment and peace, the Dalai Lama has achieved significant acclaim as a world...
Sunday 5/25 @ Cerrito Speakeasy Theater
Eddie Muller has done as much as anyone to ensure that film noir gets its due in America. He touches down...
SF International Arts Festival
Sunday 5/25 @ Various locations
The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at...
Sunday 5/25 @ Triple Base
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and...
Sunday 5/25 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Sunday 5/25 @ 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....
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ Park Life
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,...
Sunday 5/25 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Sunday 5/25 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Sunday 5/25 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Embracing the same kind of provocative ambiguity and loose brushwork found in Luc Tuymans' paintings, New Zealand native Saskia Leek structures...
