Events on Friday, August 8
Friday 8/ 8 @ Treasure Island
Hula-hoops may seem an unlikely vehicle for social change, but the hardcore hoopers behind World Hoop Day use the circular playthings...
Friday 8/ 8 @ Davies Symphony Hall
Since Bill Maher's earliest days as host of the late-night talk show Politically Incorrect, his acerbic wit and confrontational stances on...
Friday 8/ 8 @ Fat City
Big Top Magazine's alternative-circus spectacle Revolution has one heckuva lineup: Avant-cabaret dazzlers the Vau de Vire Society spin, cartwheel, twirl, and...
Friday 8/ 8 @ Art 94124 Gallery
One of the 20th century's most recognizable, beloved, and debated icons (and her genital-less beau) gets made over by more than...
US Air Guitar Championships National Finals
Friday 8/ 8 @ The Regency Ballroom
The nation's 25 best faux shredders converge on San Francisco tonight for the annual US Air Guitar Championships. Only one fleet-fingered...
Freaky Fantasy Films from the '80s Triple Bill
Friday 8/ 8 @ The Castro Theatre
This '80s triple bill proves that fantasy films aren't just kid stuff. Acclaimed editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now) offers a much...
Friday 8/ 8 @ The Independent
The Owl Mag, SF's upstart indie-rock pub, has passed its terrible twos and shows no signs of stopping. In addition to...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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,...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit...
Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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...
The Montage Art of Winston Smith
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
SF International Festival of Short Films
Friday 8/ 8 @ Various locations
Short programs often get the short end of the stick at film festivals, where the feature-length fare tends to attract the...
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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,...
Friday 8/ 8 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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,...
Clare Haggarty and Andrew Tosiello
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Park Life
Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a...
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Various locations
With movies set in locations around the world, this year's SF Jewish Film Festival could easily double as an international film...
Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
Friday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
