Events on Wednesday, May 7
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ University Press Books
Local historians Ed Herny and Shelley Rideout visit University Press Books with some of the legends and relics of fin-de-siècle...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Great American Music Hall
Oakland's Subtle doesn't cross genres so much as melt away the differences between them. The Anticon associates draw on acoustic instruments...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Intersection for the Arts
Local jazz bassist Lisa Mezzacappa debuts her new ensemble, Jazz in Analogue, a project inspired by Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ CCA San Francisco Campus
More than a dozen senior graduates of CCA's Fashion Design program display full collections in a juried fashion exhibit, sponsored by...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Landmark Opera Plaza
Combining the mischief of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the solidarity of The Breakfast Club, and the edgy bank...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Hyde Street Gallery
Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura
In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Self Storage
Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Red Vic
It's difficult to imagine a Buddhist meditation retreat in a maximum-security prison, but at Donaldson Correctional Facility in
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Berkeley Art Museum
The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
San Francisco International Film Festival
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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....
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ 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,...
Wednesday 5/ 7 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
