Events on Sunday, July 13
Sunday 7/13 @ Sigmund Stern Grove
Rachid Taha has been attracting serious attention lately. When Brian Eno heard the French-Algerian rocker's music, he was so intrigued that...
Sunday 7/13 @ Phoenix Hotel
Hosted at the Bambuddha Lounge in the Phoenix Hotel (frequented by many an international rock star), this sizzling pool party features...
Sunday 7/13 @ ODC Dance Commons
sfSoundSeries kicks off its monthly concert run with an adventurous program of contemporary classical works. The influence of Steve Reich's drone-like...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Sunday 7/13 @ 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....
Sunday 7/13 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Sunday 7/13 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Sunday 7/13 @ 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,...
Sunday 7/13 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Sunday 7/13 @ 2nd Floor Projects
Curator Margaret Tedesco warms the walls of her Mission-district gallery with abstract color compositions in Unlikely Arrivals, an exhibition featuring a...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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....
Sunday 7/13 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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....
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Sunday 7/13 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
Sunday 7/13 @ Triple Base
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within....
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Sunday 7/13 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Sunday 7/13 @ SFMOMA
It's notable enough when art-addled architects redirect their creative attention to the natural world — think Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house,...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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,...
Sunday 7/13 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
