Events on Tuesday, August 19
Tuesday 8/19 @ Books Inc.
Standup duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong practically invented the pothead stereotype. Their breakthrough film, Up in Smoke (1978), established the...
Tuesday 8/19 @ Hemlock Tavern
One could be forgiven for thinking that Expo '70 was a long-forgotten Krautrock project from a group called "Expo." (The minimalist...
Ongoing Events
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Tuesday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ Lumiere Theatre
The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck, 2005), but this extraordinary documentary...
Tuesday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Tuesday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Tuesday 8/19 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Tuesday 8/19 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
The Montage Art of Winston Smith
Tuesday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ SFMOMA
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit...
Tuesday 8/19 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Tuesday 8/19 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
