Events on Tuesday, May 6
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Utah Phillips may have the white beard of an elderly man, but the folk singer's rabble-rousing politics keep him young and...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Great American Music Hall
While often grouped with the local freak-folk scene because of their close affiliation with (sometimes member) Devendra Banhart, Vetiver generally favor...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura
In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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....
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Red Vic
It's difficult to imagine a Buddhist meditation retreat in a maximum-security prison, but at Donaldson Correctional Facility in
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Castro Theatre
With the recent passing of Charlton "cold dead hands" Heston, the Castro's screening of this recently reissued, 40-year-old classic is actually...
San Francisco International Film Festival
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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,...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
