Events on Thursday, June 5
Thursday 6/ 5 @ San Francisco Public Library
Author and radical queer activist Matt Bernstein Sycamore (aka Mattilda) has long been a necessary fly in the ointment of mainstream...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ Artists' Television Access
In spite of being a legendary Bay Area film aesthete, Warren Sonbert's movies have rarely been screened outside a couple of...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ City Lights
Aaron Shurin is an elder statesmen of SF poetry, chronicling the vicissitudes of gay life in dense lyrical entanglements that flit...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 330 Ritch
The Wombats have been selling out venues across the UK since releasing their first singles, "Lost in the Post" and "Party...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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....
Thursday 6/ 5 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
An ode to music and craftsmanship, Ben Niles' documentary Note by Note details the painstaking craftsmanship required to produce one...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Louder, Faster: Punk in Performance
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Jia Zhang-ke's films have always taken a gritty, neo-realist view of China's new position in the global economy, as well as...
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ Electric Works
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ Ratio 3
Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema
Based on a true story, The Children of Huang Shi follows a group of orphaned children fleeing war-torn China in the...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Exit Sign confronts all the major thematic touchstones of a self-respecting rock opera: love, death, and the dubious nature of reality...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Park Life
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,...
Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
SF International Arts Festival
Thursday 6/ 5 @ Various locations
The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at...
