Events on Thursday, June 19
Thursday 6/19 @ Mezzanine
Wholphin, the quarterly DVD magazine published by McSweeney's, brings together enigmatic shorts that are by turns provocative, comical, and bizarre —...
Hotel Utah 100th Anniversary Party
Thursday 6/19 @ Hotel Utah Saloon
When the Hotel Utah opened two years after the 1906 earthquake,
Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Southern Exposure
With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of...
Thursday 6/19 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ The Make-Out Room
Between willfully simple, '50s-inspired numbers like "I'm a Little Dinosaur" and his work with the Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman has the...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Thursday 6/19 @ Root Division
From the tony white walls of 49 Geary to the warehouse studios in Hunter's Point, SF lays claim to nearly every...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Novellus Theater
If Marc Bamuthi Joseph seems to garner an absurd number of accolades (National Poetry Slam Champ, San Francisco Bay Guardian GOLDIE...
Thursday 6/19 @ Ratio 3
Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like...
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ SFMOMA
As a New German Cinema progenitor obsessed with stylish reconstructions of his country's troubled 20th-century history, R.W. Fassbinder had a natural...
Thursday 6/19 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this...
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Thursday 6/19 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Little Tree Gallery
In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition —...
Thursday 6/19 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Kentucky Jones and the Carpet of Doom
Thursday 6/19 @ Brava Theater Center
When a powerful artifact falls into the hands of terrorists who want to use it to destroy the world, only Kentucky...
Thursday 6/19 @ Various locations
This year, the world's largest and oldest LGBT film festival is in transition. Outgoing Artistic Director Michael Lumpkin receives the 2008...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Triple Base
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and...
Thursday 6/19 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ de Young Museum
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish,...
Thursday 6/19 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Thursday 6/19 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
Thursday 6/19 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Michael Haneke's 2007 English-language remake of his notorious Funny Games (1997) hit US theaters with the unexpected wallop of a hard...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of...
Thursday 6/19 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Thursday 6/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Electric Works
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting...
Thursday 6/19 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans...
Thursday 6/19 @ Gallery 16
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little...
Thursday 6/19 @ Project Artaud Theater
The Fresh Meat Festival pushes the boundaries of how gender roles are interpreted, and by whom. The only transgender performing-arts festival...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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....
Louder, Faster: Punk in Performance
Thursday 6/19 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Not much new can be said about punk. The gnarled, trans-Atlantic family tree running from Iggy Pop to Johnny Rotten, and...
