Events on Saturday, May 31
Saturday 5/31 @ CELLspace
You may have noticed that Internet cultural resources are a vital part of keeping up-to-date, staying in touch, and figuring out...
Saturday 5/31 @ Mezzanine
After organizing several music/art hybrid events over the last two years, CreativemindsSF shores up its most impressive bill yet. The art...
Saturday 5/31 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Jazz producer Bob Belden spearheaded the series of deluxe reissues of Miles Davis' Columbia albums, which came to a close with...
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Saturday 5/31 @ The Fillmore
He played riotously energetic shows up until the end, so it was hard to believe it when James Brown died the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/31 @ Berkeley Art Museum
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Saturday 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
SF International Arts Festival
Saturday 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ Left Space Studio
Treat your mama right by forgoing the usual brunch plans and opt instead to sit for one of the nationally recognized...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Saturday 5/31 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
An ode to music and craftsmanship, Ben Niles' documentary Note by Note details the painstaking craftsmanship required to produce one...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ SFMOMA
Two weeks after Yerba Buena spotlighted a couple of French director Philippe Garrel's older features, SF MoMA revives Regular Lovers, the...
Saturday 5/31 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Saturday 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ Park Life
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,...
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Saturday 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ Zellerbach Hall
Theatrical visionary Robert Lepage has garnered international acclaim for his imaginative productions and dynamic storytelling. The Andersen Project concerns a Canadian...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
Based on a true story, The Children of Huang Shi follows a group of orphaned children fleeing war-torn China in the...
Saturday 5/31 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Saturday 5/31 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Saturday 5/31 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Saturday 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ 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 5/31 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
