Events on Friday, August 15
Friday 8/15 @ Landmark Bridge Theater
The Elm Street series' conceit of good kids sharing dreams with an undead pedophile makes for such inventive horror that New...
Friday 8/15 @ DNA Lounge
Like many grindhouse auteurs before them, the ladies of Hubba Hubba Revue understand that bouncing bazooms and buckets of blood are...
Friday 8/15 @ Great American Music Hall
Or, the Whale cribbed their name from the full title of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, though the San Francisco group's yearning roots...
Ongoing Events
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Friday 8/15 @ Jack Fischer Gallery
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and...
Friday 8/15 @ Lumiere Theatre
The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck, 2005), but this extraordinary documentary...
Friday 8/15 @ New Conservatory Theatre
Tom Orr lives up to his billing as a star of comedy, cabaret, and porn by parodying show tunes in various...
Friday 8/15 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Friday 8/15 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Friday 8/15 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Friday 8/15 @ Park Life
Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a...
Friday 8/15 @ 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,...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ The Boxcar Theatre
Revenge of the Nerds meets High School Musical in this musical satire of sad-sack teens with angular hair cuts. The underdogs...
Friday 8/15 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Friday 8/15 @ 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...
The Montage Art of Winston Smith
Friday 8/15 @ 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...
Clare Haggarty and Andrew Tosiello
Friday 8/15 @ Little Tree Gallery
Anyone who caught CCA's last MFA show knows that Andrew Tosiello's work — in particular, his texts that recast the artist-buyer...
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Friday 8/15 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Friday 8/15 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Friday 8/15 @ 21 Grand
Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of...
Friday 8/15 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Friday 8/15 @ 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...
Friday 8/15 @ 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...
Friday 8/15 @ 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...
Friday 8/15 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Friday 8/15 @ Marx & Zavattero
When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually...
Friday 8/15 @ New Langton Arts
Since 1998, the Thunderbird Theatre Company has produced original comedic plays with a literary and cinematic twist; its last two seasons...
Friday 8/15 @ 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...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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...
Friday 8/15 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Friday 8/15 @ SFMOMA
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit...
Friday 8/15 @ 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...
Friday 8/15 @ Red Vic
Last October 4th marked the beginning of "Sputnik Year," the 50th anniversary of the Soviet satellite's launch. The timing seems right...
Friday 8/15 @ 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,...
Friday 8/15 @ Johansson Projects
With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the...
Friday 8/15 @ Fort Mason Center
As American artists find new avenues for their creativity — recycled materials and urban stories woven through tapestries, for instance —...
Friday 8/15 @ 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...
Friday 8/15 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
