Events on Wednesday, August 20
Wednesday 8/20 @ Commonwealth Club
Bravo's hit reality series Top Chef watches as contestants julienne, simmer, and sauté their way toward the show's titular honor. The...
Wednesday 8/20 @ Bottom of the Hill
Together at last, Bob Log III and Scott H. Biram are both country-fried, one-man bands with vicious guitar chops and serious...
Wednesday 8/20 @ Mama Buzz Café
Dame Satan's latest full-length release, Beaches and Bridges, is a genre-bending exploration of the last 50 years'-worth of Americana, folk, and...
Wednesday 8/20 @ Artists' Television Access
Deep Throat (1972) may have given porn a certain cultural cachet, but director and ex-professional dancer Wakefield Poole made the idea...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 8/20 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Wednesday 8/20 @ Lumiere Theatre
The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck, 2005), but this extraordinary documentary...
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
The Montage Art of Winston Smith
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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,...
Wednesday 8/20 @ SFMOMA
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit...
Clare Haggarty and Andrew Tosiello
Wednesday 8/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/20 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
Timothy Cummings skipped art school and taught himself to paint, honing his craft by taking cues from the Old Masters and...
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Wednesday 8/20 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
