Events on Friday, August 1
Friday 8/ 1 @ The Booksmith
Despite associations with sunshine and good vibes,
Friday 8/ 1 @ Elbo Room
Put your hands up for Detroit! The godfather of techno, Juan Atkins, swings in from Motor City to take over the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/ 1 @ Roxie Theater
About eight years ago, a San Francisco artist named Someguy labeled 1,000 blank notebooks with instructions: add a drawing, story, confession,...
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Friday 8/ 1 @ Jack Fischer Gallery
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Growing old has long been a stereotypical bugaboo for gay men. Thankfully, there are filmmakers like Jacques Nolot, whose semi-autobiographical Before...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Landmark Embarcadero
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format....
Friday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Intersection for the Arts
Prolific artist, poet, and dramatist Federico García Lorca was both gifted and deeply tortured; he was only able to express his...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Triple Base
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within....
Friday 8/ 1 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Timothy Cummings skipped art school and taught himself to paint, honing his craft by taking cues from the Old Masters and...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Creativity Explored
From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new...
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Various locations
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael...
Friday 8/ 1 @ American Conservatory Theater
Roger Rees has a decidedly multifaceted career. Stateside, he's best known for slapstick roles like the snooty-yet-sexy Robin Colcord on Cheers,...
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Johansson Projects
With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Bridge Theatre
Prince's sexiness and an expertly played, Oscar-winning score elevate Purple Rain's Midwestern coming-of-age plot from ghetto melodrama to a tongue-in-cheek treatise...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit...
Friday 8/ 1 @ The Castro Theatre
Milestone Films recently scored a surprise hit with a restoration of Charles Burnett's 1977 film Killer of Sheep. The company...
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Friday 8/ 1 @ Park Life
Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Friday 8/ 1 @ Novellus Theater
Kronos Quartet may be best known for their incendiary version of "Purple Haze" and high-profile collaborations with everyone from Steve Reich...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Various locations
With movies set in locations around the world, this year's SF Jewish Film Festival could easily double as an international film...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Friday 8/ 1 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
Friday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
