Events on Thursday, July 17
William Steig and the World of The New Yorker
Thursday 7/17 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
The New Yorker's notoriously droll cartoons have done much to shape America's sense of highbrow humor, and few artists lent their...
Thursday 7/17 @ Gray Area Gallery
San Francisco may be 6,000 miles from Berlin, but local quartet Tussle turn out propulsive motorik grooves that are as authentic...
Thursday 7/17 @ The Booksmith
Daphne Gottlieb's poetry — which entwines academic language and dirty talk — is populated with personas, from the archetypal slasher-film survivor...
Thursday 7/17 @ The Fillmore
Wolf Parade's 2005 full-length debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, marked the arrival of a compelling new force in indie rock...
Thursday 7/17 @ Balazo 18
Ongoing Events
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Thursday 7/17 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are...
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Thursday 7/17 @ 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....
Thursday 7/17 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Thursday 7/17 @ Johansson Projects
With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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...
Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival
Thursday 7/17 @ Various locations
Noise Pop gets more buzz and Outside Lands nabs the big names, but the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival still...
Thursday 7/17 @ Silverman Gallery
It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann...
Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
Thursday 7/17 @ SFMOMA
Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy — Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1949), and The Testament of Orpheus...
Thursday 7/17 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena film programmer Joel Shepard snags another unusual US premiere. This one is a documentary tone poem set in a...
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Thursday 7/17 @ Marx & Zavattero
When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Creativity Explored
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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,...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Various locations
While the Mission Creek Festival rocks San Francisco, Heeb magazine gives East Bay folks a good reason to stay put with...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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...
Thursday 7/17 @ Triple Base
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within....
Thursday 7/17 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Thursday 7/17 @ Root Division
Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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,...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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...
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Thursday 7/17 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Thursday 7/17 @ Jack Fischer Gallery
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and...
Thursday 7/17 @ The Lab
Mariah Johnson's installations re-envision household order as natural phenomena, draping and wrapping bed linens over chairs, walls, and floors in ways...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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
Thursday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Thursday 7/17 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Thursday 7/17 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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....
Thursday 7/17 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Thursday 7/17 @ Ping Pong Gallery
While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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
Thursday 7/17 @ 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...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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...
Thursday 7/17 @ 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
Thursday 7/17 @ Hypnodrome
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay...
