All events on Wednesday June 04
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- SF Black Film Festival
- Wednesday June 4 @ 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: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- Wednesday June 4 (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 »
- Film
- Film Gods Shoot Back
- Wednesday June 4 (7pm) @ Roxie New College Film Center
- 1960s musical-theater star Anthony Newley was no Fellini, but that didn't stop the popular British balladeer from convincing Hollywood to back his 8 1/2 (1963),... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- A Blade Runner Bash
- Wednesday June 4 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
- Giveaway
- Ridley Scott's gritty 1982 cyberpunk noir provides the inspiration for this showcase of local electronic acts — though their music is far from Vangelis' synth-sculpted... View details »
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- Standard Operating Procedure
- Wednesday June 4 (6:30pm) @ Commonwealth Club
- Canceled!Giveaway
- Though it still struck some as sensational, Errol Morris' documentary about the Abu Ghraib scandal was a success; the book version, also titled Standard Operating... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Tim Lee
- Wednesday June 4 (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 »
- Art
- Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 @ 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 »
- Art
- The Way That We Rhyme
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 @ 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
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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: Photography
- Ryan McGinley
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Thursday June 5 (5:30–7:30pm) @ 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 »
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- SF International Arts Festival
- Wednesday June 4 @ 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 »
- Art
- Sarah Wagner
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Wednesday June 4 (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 »
- Film
- The Children of Huang Shi
- Wednesday June 4 @ 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 »
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- Dykes on Bikes®
- Wednesday June 4 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Note by Note
- Wednesday June 4 @ 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 »
- Art
- Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
- Wednesday June 4 (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
- Feudal Echo
- Wednesday June 4 (noon–8pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
- Wednesday June 4 (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 »
- Art
- Hopeless and Otherwise
- Wednesday June 4 (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 »
