All events on Sunday June 01

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Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Sunday June 1 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
Trevor Paglen
Film
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Sunday June 1 (noon) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
The Pacific Film Archive hosts San Francisco experimental filmmaker and feminist Lynn Hershman Leeson for an unusual marathon screening, paying tribute both to video's capacity... View details »
Lynn Hershman Leeson
More Flavor: Discussion
Kitchen Sisters
Sunday June 1 (8–10pm) @ Cafe du Nord
Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva (aka the Kitchen Sisters) have long enchanted NPR listeners with groundbreaking audio portraits of the hidden facets of American life.... View details »
Kitchen Sisters
Music: Rock/Pop
Superdrag
Sunday June 1 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill More times »
Superdrag's "Sucked Out" was one of the prime pop confections of 1996, with cherry-red guitar distortion and John Davis' hoarse vocals transforming the song's self-conscious... View details »
Superdrag

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Art
In Collaboration
Sunday June 1 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media arts. The In Collaboration... View details »
In Collaboration
Art: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968
Sunday June 1 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for lack of documentation. The... View details »
Protest in Paris 1968
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Andersen Project
Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Zellerbach Hall More times »
Theatrical visionary Robert Lepage has garnered international acclaim for his imaginative productions and dynamic storytelling. The Andersen Project concerns a Canadian lyricist who moves to... View details »
The Andersen Project
Art
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Sunday June 1 @ SFMOMA More times »
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical myth, art history, and... View details »
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Art
The Way That We Rhyme
Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
The Way That We Rhyme
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Sunday June 1 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
2nd Skin
Art
Inkie Whang
Sunday June 1 (11am–5pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
Korean artist Inkie Whang's large-scale, pixelated landscapes explore the tenuous balance between his traditional heritage and the digital age. In the dozen paintings on display... View details »
Inkie Whang
Art
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Sunday June 1 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design More times »
Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the 1950s with the verve... View details »
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Art: Photography
The Reggae Scrapbook
Sunday June 1 (noon–7pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and archives, award-winning photographer Peter... View details »
The Reggae Scrapbook
Art
Paul Sietsema
Sunday June 1 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
Paul Sietsema
Art
American Symbols
Sunday June 1 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
American Symbols
More Flavor: Festival
SF International Arts Festival
Sunday June 1 @ Various locations More times »
The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at venues including the Yerba... View details »
SF International Arts Festival
Art
Suzanne Husky
Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and environmental angst, aren't always... View details »
Suzanne Husky
More Flavor: Exhibition
Birth of the Cool
Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That history, largely one of... View details »
Birth of the Cool
Film
The Children of Huang Shi
Sunday June 1 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema More times »
Based on a true story, The Children of Huang Shi follows a group of orphaned children fleeing war-torn China in the wake of the 1930s... View details »
The Children of Huang Shi
Film: Documentary
Note by Note
Sunday June 1 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
An ode to music and craftsmanship, Ben Niles' documentary Note by Note details the painstaking craftsmanship required to produce one Steinway piano, from its... View details »
Note by Note
Music: Rock/Pop
R.E.M.
Sunday June 1 (5pm) @ Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley More times »
R.E.M.'s last outing, Around the Sun, was a critical and commercial flop, but their tenure as a "great American band" isn't up yet. Their newest... View details »
R.E.M.
Art
Feudal Echo
Sunday June 1 (noon–9pm) @ Park Life More times »
Free
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days, but painters Alex Lukas... View details »
Feudal Echo
Art
Recession
Sunday June 1 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
They say money makes the world go round — and although Maximo Gonzalez might agree, he's got his own cynical take on the spiraling global... View details »