Events on Friday, July 11
Friday 7/11 @ Oakland Museum of California
While the City might be constantly abuzz with activity, there's still plenty to do on the other side of the Bay...
Bardot a Go Go's 10th Anniversary
Friday 7/11 @ Rickshaw Stop
SF's den of Gallic iniquity Bardot a Go Go is turning ten, and to celebrate a decade of frugging to chansons...
Friday 7/11 @ Noe Valley Ministry
The Noe Valley Music Series celebrates Bastille Day a few days early with the Baguette Quartette, a local jazz ensemble specializing...
Friday 7/11 @ Mezzanine
Following a slew of recent dates opening for M.I.A., old-school hip-hop and electro legend Egyptian Lover returns to rock Mezzanine. He's...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/11 @ Ping Pong Gallery
While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain...
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Friday 7/11 @ Landmark Embarcadero
The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style....
Friday 7/11 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Whether you're crazy for leather, proudly polyamorous, or you just like to watch, CineKink's popular, perverse film series educates while it...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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 —...
Friday 7/11 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Friday 7/11 @ Jancar Jones Gallery
After having spent the last few generations ridding themselves of modernism's pungent aftertaste, the art world's contemporary painters are finally up...
Friday 7/11 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often...
Friday 7/11 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Friday 7/11 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
Friday 7/11 @ Triple Base
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within....
Friday 7/11 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Friday 7/11 @ Root Division
Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors...
Friday 7/11 @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls...
San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
Friday 7/11 @ Roxie Theater
It's tempting to curse San Francisco's notoriously frigid summers. But in the evenings, when you're huddled against a pungent BBQ blaze...
Friday 7/11 @ Silverman Gallery
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann...
Friday 7/11 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Friday 7/11 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Mose Allison has lived in New York since 1956, but his smoky piano blues still bear the imprint of the Mississippi...
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Friday 7/11 @ Marx & Zavattero
When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually...
Friday 7/11 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Friday 7/11 @ Creativity Explored
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new...
Friday 7/11 @ The Shooting Gallery
A collection of who's who in the alt-comic and street-art scenes adorns the walls tonight in a portrait series by photographers...
Friday 7/11 @ 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,...
Friday 7/11 @ 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....
Friday 7/11 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Friday 7/11 @ Frey Norris Gallery
With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns....
Friday 7/11 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ SFMOMA
Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray,...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Gallery 16
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Friday 7/11 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Friday 7/11 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Friday 7/11 @ The Castro Theatre
After opening with Harold Lloyd's classic comedy The Kid Brother (1927), the 13th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival packs 11...
