Events on Friday, September 12
Friday 9/12 @ The Canessa Gallery
Hanif Kureishi, writer of such popular and critically acclaimed films as My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, takes...
Friday 9/12 @ Herbst Theater
Cash awards have long served as an incentive for innovators; for instance, Charles Lindbergh snagged the $25,000 Orteig Prize upon completing...
Friday 9/12 @ Cafe du Nord
The Mother Hips don't reinvent the wheel with their snappy roots music, but they've been strong local favorites since working their...
Friday 9/12 @ Bimbo's
After kicking off his career with San Francisco punks the Nuns, Alejandro Escovedo ushered in the alt-country movement with Austin bands...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/12 @ Various locations
Just when you thought the summer — and consequently, the Bay Area's overstuffed calendar of music festivals — was winding down,...
Friday 9/12 @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank...
Friday 9/12 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
In Erika Chong Shuch's latest menagerie of surreal imagery and experimental dance, the Bay Area innovator stitches together dance miniatures —...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Needles & Pens
From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ Thick House
Local showman Colman Domingo revives his 2005 hit, A Boy and His Soul, for Thick House's 20th-anniversary season. Domingo's tour of...
Friday 9/12 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf...
Friday 9/12 @ 21 Grand
Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Friday 9/12 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
Friday 9/12 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Friday 9/12 @ American Conservatory Theater
Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge,...
Friday 9/12 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis...
Friday 9/12 @ Aurora Theatre
It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the...
Friday 9/12 @ 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,...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Friday 9/12 @ SF Camerawork
This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks...
Friday 9/12 @ 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,...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Friday 9/12 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Friday 9/12 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and...
Friday 9/12 @ CFI Rafael Film Center
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences lays claim to a veritable treasure trove of American cinematic history; unfortunately, a...
Friday 9/12 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Friday 9/12 @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a...
Friday 9/12 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
Friday 9/12 @ Adobe Bookshop
In a world seemingly fueled by of-the-moment celebrity gossip, it's easy to forget that the public's fascination with the wealthy is...
Friday 9/12 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Friday 9/12 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Chinese artist Shen Shaomin uses mismatched groups of human and animal bones (some real, some cast in plaster) to form skeletal...
Friday 9/12 @ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...
Friday 9/12 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Friday 9/12 @ Triple Base
A musician, comic-book author, and freak-folk portraitist, Christine Shields evokes a fiercely personal vision of girlhood with pastel-colored, phantasmal paintings of...
Friday 9/12 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Friday 9/12 @ Johansson Projects
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and...
Friday 9/12 @ Various locations
Home to classic painted ladies, tree-lined hills, and recent prefab houses, San Francisco's landscape is distinct and ever-evolving. During the Architecture...
