Events on Tuesday, July 15
Tuesday 7/15 @ First Congregational Church of Oakland
Perhaps you can chalk it up to the political fires of 1968: that's the year Barbara Ehrenreich received her Ph.D. in...
Ongoing Events
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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....
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Tuesday 7/15 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are...
Tuesday 7/15 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Tuesday 7/15 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/15 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Tuesday 7/15 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Tuesday 7/15 @ Marx & Zavattero
When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually...
Tuesday 7/15 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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....
Tuesday 7/15 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/15 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Tuesday 7/15 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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....
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Tuesday 7/15 @ Jack Fischer Gallery
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and...
Tuesday 7/15 @ Creativity Explored
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new...
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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,...
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/15 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Tuesday 7/15 @ Silverman Gallery
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann...
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/15 @ 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,...
Tuesday 7/15 @ Ping Pong Gallery
While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain...
Tuesday 7/15 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
