Events on Friday, June 13

Times New Viking w/ Hank IV, Psychedelic Horseshit and Fabulous Diamonds

Music

Times New Viking

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Alan Braxe w/ Lifelike

Music: Electronic

Alan Braxe

Friday 6/13 @ Mezzanine

All you bedroom Tecktonik dancers, listen up. School is in session courtesy of French electro icons Alan Braxe and Lifelike. Braxe... 

Ongoing Events

Joe Goode Performance Group presents <em>Wonderboy</em>

Dance

Wonderboy

Friday 6/13 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

With an expert hand, Guggenheim Fellow Joe Goode directs and choreographs Wonderboy, which follows the travails of an unlikely superhero. Dancers... 

Sarah Wagner: <em>Nuclear Family</em>

Art

Sarah Wagner

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

<em>'Tis Pity She's a Whore</em>

Theatre

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Friday 6/13 @ American Conservatory Theater

Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael... 

Peter Simon and Roger Steffens: <em>The Reggae Scrapbook</em>

Art: Photography

The Reggae Scrapbook

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

<em>2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing</em>

Special Event

2nd Skin

Friday 6/13 @ Exploratorium

With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing.... 

<em>A Complicated Dominion: Nature and New Political Narratives</em>

Art

A Complicated Dominion

Friday 6/13 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With... 

<em>Hopeless and Otherwise</em>

Art

Hopeless and Otherwise

Friday 6/13 @ Southern Exposure

With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of... 

<em>Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens</em>

Art: Photography

Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens

Friday 6/13 @ Berkeley Art Museum

After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He... 

San Francisco Black Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Black Film Festival

Friday 6/13 @ Various locations

The San Francisco Black Film Festival premiered in 1998 as a one-day event. Ten years make quite a difference: this year's... 

<em>ArtSpan: 30 Under 30</em>

Art

ArtSpan: 30 Under 30

Friday 6/13 @ Varnish Fine Art

Bay Area Now 5 doesn't hit the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts until July, but ArtSpan has the jump on... 

<em>Up the Yangtze</em>

Film: Documentary

Up the Yangtze

Friday 6/13 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre

Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of... 

David M. Stein: <em>Improbable\Unlikely</em>

Art

Improbable\Unlikely

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Amanda M. Smith: <em>Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers</em>

Art

Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers

Friday 6/13 @ 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,... 

Suzanne Husky: <em>You Make Me Make You</em>

Art

Suzanne Husky

Friday 6/13 @ Triple Base

Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and... 

<em>Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Mid-century</em>

Special Event

Birth of the Cool

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Film

Times and Winds

Friday 6/13 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema

While local cinephiles were still circling calendar dates in anticipation of this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, the sponsoring SF... 

Leigh Wells

Art

Leigh Wells

Friday 6/13 @ Gallery 16

Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little... 

<em>American Symbols: From Lady Liberty to the Stars and Stripes</em>

Art

American Symbols

Friday 6/13 @ 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.... 

<em>Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector</em>

Art

Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Karla Wozniak: <em>Road Works</em>

Art

Karla Wozniak

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

4th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival

Friday 6/13 @ Brava Theater Center

This annual festival presents a broad spectrum of narratives crafted by contemporary filmmakers who draw on personal experiences, both as queer... 

<em>Art & Artifice: 75 Years of Design at San Francisco Ballet</em>

Special Event

Art & Artifice

Friday 6/13 @ Museum of Performance & Design

Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the... 

<em>Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle</em>

Art

Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Sean Talley

Art

Sean Talley

Friday 6/13 @ Jancar Jones Gallery

Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes... 

Superstition Obstacle Course

Special Event

Superstition Obstacle Course

Friday 6/13 @ Exploratorium

  Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack... 

Paul Sietsema: <em>New Work</em>

Art

Paul Sietsema

Friday 6/13 @ SFMOMA

Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles... 

Another Hole in the Head

Festival: Performing Arts

Another Hole in the Head

Friday 6/13 @ Roxie Theater

Now in its fifth year, the SF Indie's Another Hole in the Head Festival features two weeks of sci-fi and horror... 

Trevor Paglen: <em>The Other Night Sky</em>

Art: Photography

Trevor Paglen

Friday 6/13 @ Berkeley Art Museum

Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of... 

<em>365</em>

Art

365

Friday 6/13 @ 111 Minna Gallery

  365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual... 

Special Event

Dykes on Bikes®

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Christian Marclay:<em> Stereo</em>

Art

Christian Marclay

Friday 6/13 @ Fraenkel Gallery

Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in... 

<em>Portals</em>: Jen Stark, Anna Fidler, and Jana Flynn

Art

Portals

Friday 6/13 @ Johansson Projects

This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife,... 

<em>Quarter Century: </em>Creativity Explored's 25th Anniversary

Art

Quarter Century

Friday 6/13 @ Creativity Explored

Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th... 

<em>Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place</em>

Art: Photography

Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place

Friday 6/13 @ SF Camerawork

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... 

Christopher Brown<em> </em>and Clare Kirkconnell

Art

Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Ryan McGinley: <em>Spring and by Summer Fall</em>

Art: Photography

Ryan McGinley

Friday 6/13 @ Ratio 3

Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like... 

<em>The Rape of the Sabine Women</em>

Art

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Friday 6/13 @ SFMOMA

Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical... 

Alicia McCarthy

Art

Alicia McCarthy

Friday 6/13 @ Jack Hanley Gallery

Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this... 

Thrillpeddlers present Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival

Theatre

Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival

Friday 6/13 @ Hypnodrome

Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay... 

<em>The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics</em>

Art

The Way That We Rhyme

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Amy Stein: <em>New American Fables</em>

Art: Photography

New American Fables

Friday 6/13 @ Robert Koch Gallery

Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic... 

Under 100: Exhibition, Sale, and Screen-Print Event

Special Event

Under 100

Friday 6/13 @ Root Division

From the tony white walls of 49 Geary to the warehouse studios in Hunter's Point, SF lays claim to nearly every... 

William T. Wiley: <em>Punball: Only One Earth</em>

Art

William T. Wiley

Friday 6/13 @ Electric Works

Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Friday 6/13 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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... 

<em>After the Revolution: Contemporary Photography from Tehran and California</em>

Art: Photography

After the Revolution

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Adam5100: <em>The Heart vs the Mind in a Fight to the Finish</em>

Art

Adam5100

Friday 6/13 @ Rowan Morrison

The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his... 

<em>The Group</em>

Theatre

The Group

Friday 6/13 @ Climate Theater

From Dale Carnegie to Norman Vincent Peale (who coined the phrase "the power of positive thinking") to the current worldwide success...