All events on Friday June 13
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- Times New Viking
- Friday June 13 (10pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
- Being a lo-fi, art-punk band from Ohio with a deal on Matador, Times New Viking can't help but draw comparisons to Guided by Voices. It's... View details »
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- Superstition Obstacle Course
- Friday June 13 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
- ... ening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack thereof), via an obstacle... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Friday June 13 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- Friday June 13 @ Hypnodrome More times »
- Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Alan Braxe
- Friday June 13 (10pm) @ Mezzanine
- All you bedroom Tecktonik dancers, listen up. School is in session courtesy of French electro icons Alan Braxe and Lifelike. Braxe — who has embraced... View details »
- Film: Festival
- 4th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
- Friday June 13 @ Brava Theater Center More times »
- Free
- This annual festival presents a broad spectrum of narratives crafted by contemporary filmmakers who draw on personal experiences, both as queer women and as representatives... View details »
- Film
- Times and Winds
- Friday June 13 (11:15am, 1:40pm, 4:15pm, 7:15pm & 10pm) @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
- While local cinephiles were still circling calendar dates in anticipation of this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, the sponsoring SF Film Society announced a... View details »
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- Art
- Tim Lee
- Friday June 13 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
- Free
- Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
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- SF Black Film Festival
- Friday June 13 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- The San Francisco Black Film Festival premiered in 1998 as a one-day event. Ten years make quite a difference: this year's festival stretches over ten... View details »
- Art
- Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
- Friday June 13 (10am–6pm) @ Sculpturesite Gallery More times »
- Free
- One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works constructed from repurposed materials.... View details »
- Art
- The Rape of the Sabine Women
- Friday June 13 @ 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 »
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- The Way That We Rhyme
- Friday June 13 (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 »
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- 2nd Skin
- Friday June 13 (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 »
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- Art & Artifice
- Friday June 13 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
- Free
- Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
- Art: Photography
- After the Revolution
- Friday June 13 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
- Free
- Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has become the privileged site... View details »
- Art
- Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
- Friday June 13 @ 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 »
- Art
- Quarter Century
- Friday June 13 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
- Free
- Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th year, the nonprofit studio... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The Reggae Scrapbook
- Friday June 13 (noon–9pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Paul Sietsema
- Friday June 13 (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 »
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- Portals
- Friday June 13 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects More times »
- Free
- This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife, Jen Stark carves stacks... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- Friday June 13 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
- After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Ryan McGinley
- Friday June 13 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
- Free
- Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like jubilant animals, as untrammeled... View details »
- Art
- Karla Wozniak
- Friday June 13 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery More times »
- Free
- Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly every roadside in America.... View details »
- Art
- American Symbols
- Friday June 13 (11am–6pm) @ 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 »
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- Suzanne Husky
- Friday June 13 (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 »
- Art
- Sarah Wagner
- Friday June 13 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery More times »
- Free
- Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement floors and plaster walls,... View details »
- Art
- Adam5100
- Friday June 13 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison More times »
- Free
- The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his painting and printmaking at... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- Friday June 13 (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 »
- Art
- ArtSpan: 30 Under 30
- Friday June 13 (11am–11pm) @ Varnish Fine Art More times »
- Free
- Bay Area Now 5 doesn't hit the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts until July, but ArtSpan has the jump on the freshest native talent... View details »
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- Birth of the Cool
- Friday June 13 (10am–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 »
- Art
- William T. Wiley
- Friday June 13 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
- Free
- Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting a 1964 game called... View details »
- Art
- Christian Marclay
- Friday June 13 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery More times »
- Free
- Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in used record shops. He's... View details »
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- Another Hole in the Head
- Friday June 13 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
- Now in its fifth year, the SF Indie's Another Hole in the Head Festival features two weeks of sci-fi and horror films from around the... View details »
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- Dykes on Bikes®
- Friday June 13 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
- Free
- Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride Parade. The GLBT Historical... View details »
- Art
- Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
- Friday June 13 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
- Free
- Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets quintessentially American scenes. Brown... View details »
- Art
- Leigh Wells
- Friday June 13 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16 More times »
- Free
- Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
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- Under 100
- Saturday June 14 (7–10pm) @ Root Division More times »
- Free
- From the tony white walls of 49 Geary to the warehouse studios in Hunter's Point, SF lays claim to nearly every kind of art out... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Group
- Friday June 13 @ Climate Theater More times »
- From Dale Carnegie to Norman Vincent Peale (who coined the phrase "the power of positive thinking") to the current worldwide success of The Secret, America... View details »
- Art
- Improbable\Unlikely
- Friday June 13 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery More times »
- Free
- David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely Library, shelves of books... View details »
- Art
- Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
- Friday June 13 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
- Free
- Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened, skewed architecture, Candy Garden... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Wonderboy
- Friday June 13 (8pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
- With an expert hand, Guggenheim Fellow Joe Goode directs and choreographs Wonderboy, which follows the travails of an unlikely superhero. Dancers move around a puppet... View details »
- Art
- 365
- Friday June 13 @ 111 Minna Gallery More times »
- ... m>365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual experience is only heightened... View details »
- Art
- Hopeless and Otherwise
- Friday June 13 (10am–6pm) @ Southern Exposure More times »
- Free
- With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of unrest in US history... View details »
- Art
- Sean Talley
- Friday June 13 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
- Free
- Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes commingle on a flat,... View details »
- Art
- Alicia McCarthy
- Friday June 13 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
- Free
- Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this motley collection of her... View details »
- Art: Photography
- New American Fables
- Thursday July 3 (5:30–7:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
- Free
- Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic narratives rarely end with... View details »
- Art
- A Complicated Dominion
- Friday June 13 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
- Free
- When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- Friday June 13 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
- Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael Hayden and René Augesen's... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
- Friday June 13 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
- Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean Drapeau's two controversial tenures.... View details »
