Events on Saturday, July 12

Matmos
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Music: Electronic
Matmos
@ Great American Music Hall
There's intelligent dance music, and then there's intelligent dance music. Since 1998's quasi-objects LP, which exclusively relied on found sounds, Matmos...  View details »
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The Mortified Guide to Love, Sex & Death
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Reading
The Mortified Guide to Love, Sex & Death
@ JCC East Bay
Ah, the '90s: the time of tapered pants, Mr. Bungle, and the parade of literary shame known as Mortified. These ongoing...  View details »
kino21 presents the New Talkies
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Film
The New Talkies
@ Artists' Television Access
Early movie audiences in Japan expected silent films to be accompanied by both music and live narration performed by a...  View details »
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Showcase
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
More Flavor: Benefit
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Showcase
@ Bottom of the Hill
The Girls Rock Camp Alliance, founded in Portland and now spanning the globe from Austin to Sweden, has a new local...  View details »
Litquake presents F*ck Sports!
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Reading
F*ck Sports!
@ Edinburgh Castle Pub
While many would cite a love of the game, the thrill of competition, or health benefits as reasons to play sports,...  View details »
Long Now Foundation presents Mechanicrawl
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
More Flavor: Tour
Mechanicrawl
@ Various Locations
This plan-it-yourself tour of some of San Francisco's mechanical treasures is sure to appeal to steampunks, Popular Mechanics readers, Burning Man...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
@ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_13
Film: Documentary
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Koh Myung Keun: <em>Windows on Nature</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art: Photography
Windows on Nature
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>American Symbols: From Lady Liberty to the Stars and Stripes</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
American Symbols
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Mid-century</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
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Birth of the Cool
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
CineKink
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
More Flavor: Festival
CineKink
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Leigh Wells
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Leigh Wells
@ Gallery 16
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer: <em>Room for Thought</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Room for Thought
@ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....  View details »
Ongoing
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
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Dykes on Bikes®
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Art & Artifice: 75 Years of Design at San Francisco Ballet</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
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Art & Artifice
@ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Beast in Me</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
The Beast in Me
@ Ping Pong Gallery
While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Insider/Outsider </em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Insider/Outsider
@ Root Division
Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
@ Jack Hanley Gallery
While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Victory Gardens 2008+
Month_07 Sunday Day_13
More Flavor: Festival
Victory Gardens 2008+
@ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...  View details »
Ongoing
Amy Stein: <em>New American Fables</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art: Photography
New American Fables
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Wackness</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_13
Film
The Wackness
@ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...  View details »
Ongoing
Chris Lux: <em>Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art: Photography
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
@ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Frida Kahlo</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Frida Kahlo
@ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...  View details »
Ongoing
The Crucible's Eighth Annual Fire Arts Festival
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival
@ The Crucible
For those who can't wait until August's Burning Man to set stuff ablaze, there's always Crucible's Fire Arts Festival. The West...  View details »
Ongoing
Trevor Paglen: <em>The Other Night Sky</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Ted Pushinsky: <em>Black and White Photographs Taken While Traveling Outside the United States</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Ted Pushinsky
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Viva</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Film
Viva
@ Red Vic
It's hard to keep a feature film running on camp alone, so credit Viva's writer, director, and star, Anna Biller,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzal</em>&egrave;s<em>, Marie Bracquemond</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Women Impressionists
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art: Photography
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Tammy Rae Carland: <em>An Archive of Feelings</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art: Photography
Tammy Rae Carland
@ Silverman Gallery
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>A Complicated Dominion: Nature and New Political Narratives</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
A Complicated Dominion
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Renegade Craft Fair
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
More Flavor: Shopping
Renegade Craft Fair
@ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
Sue Daly was just looking for a way to sell her adorable, nature-inspired jewelry when she decided to organize a fair...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Month_07 Sunday Day_13
Film
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em> We Remember the Sun </em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
We Remember the Sun
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
MOVE>SOUND: Soundwave>Series 3
Month_07 Sunday Day_13
Art: Festival
MOVE>SOUND
@ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Heroes & Villains</em>: Artists Portraits by Tatiana Wills & Roman Cho
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art: Photography
Heroes & Villains
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Superstition Obstacle Course
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
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Superstition Obstacle Course
@ Exploratorium
  Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...  View details »
Ongoing
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Mose Allison
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Music: Jazz/Blues
Mose Allison
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Tim Lee
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Tim Lee
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Half-Life of a Dream</em><em>: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection   </em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Half-Life of a Dream
@ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Art of Lee Miller</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art: Photography
The Art of Lee Miller
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Jennifer Merrill
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Jennifer Merrill
@ Iceberger Gallery
Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than...  View details »
Opening
Ongoing
Free
Dale Chihuly
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Dale Chihuly
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Creativity Explored presents <em>INsects INsectos</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
INsects INsectos
@ Creativity Explored
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Let Us Now Praise San Francisco</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
@ Marx & Zavattero
When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Soft Underbelly Recognition</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Soft Underbelly Recognition
@ 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 —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Kiki: The Proof Is in the Pudding</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Kiki
@ Ratio 3
As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
@ Jack Fischer Gallery
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Thrillpeddlers present Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Month_07 Sunday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
@ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Open for Business</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_12
Art
Open for Business
@ Triple Base
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within....  View details »
Ongoing
Free