Events on Tuesday, August 12
Tuesday 8/12 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Noir hounds are accustomed to a certain amount of clunky dialogue and thin characterizations — which makes a fable like 99...
Tuesday 8/12 @ Slim's
When Wolves in the Throne Room pair sludgy doomcore with pastoral woodwind passages, you can easily imagine shadowy pagan ceremonies full...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 8/12 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Tuesday 8/12 @ 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 8/12 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Tuesday 8/12 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Ron Stoner rode a wave of acclaim over mid-'60s SoCal beach culture, legendary for the vivid eye he brought to surf...
Tuesday 8/12 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/12 @ 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 8/12 @ 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 8/12 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Timothy Cummings skipped art school and taught himself to paint, honing his craft by taking cues from the Old Masters and...
Tuesday 8/12 @ 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 8/12 @ 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...
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Tuesday 8/12 @ Park Life
Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a...
Tuesday 8/12 @ SFMOMA
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit...
Tuesday 8/12 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Tuesday 8/12 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
The Montage Art of Winston Smith
Tuesday 8/12 @ Glama-Rama Salon
Winston Smith's dense, darkly playful collages are Boschian panoramas of our consumer society. Smith wasn't the first punk to pick up...
Tuesday 8/12 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Tuesday 8/12 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Tuesday 8/12 @ White Walls Gallery
Cleon Peterson's multipanel works depict violent urban scenes in black acrylic and hot pink enamel, bringing the seedy underworld of the...
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Tuesday 8/12 @ 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 8/12 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Tuesday 8/12 @ 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,...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Tuesday 8/12 @ 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 8/12 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/12 @ 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 8/12 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Tuesday 8/12 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
