Events on Thursday, September 18
Thursday 9/18 @ The Booksmith
Lynda Barry, creator of the cult comic Ernie Pook's Comeek, just unveiled her new creative-method how-to book What It Is. Part...
Thursday 9/18 @ The Fillmore
Del tha Funkee Homosapien's oddball flow has garnered a lot of mainstream attention over the last decade, most notably for his...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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,...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
Thursday 9/18 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
Filmmaker and grind-house institution Ted V. Mikels has said, "Anywhere somebody will fund my movies, I'll go." Mikels' mercenary attitude towards...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Thursday 9/18 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Thursday 9/18 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and...
Thursday 9/18 @ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography
Thursday 9/18 @ City Hall
As this juried show of 22 Bay Area photographers proves, the local scene nurtures a continuous stream of fresh talent working...
Thursday 9/18 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Thursday 9/18 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Thursday 9/18 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Chinese artist Shen Shaomin uses mismatched groups of human and animal bones (some real, some cast in plaster) to form skeletal...
Thursday 9/18 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Thursday 9/18 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
An unlikely icon with a wispy voice and bulging eyes, Taylor Mead made his big splash in Andy Warhol's Tarzan...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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,...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival
Thursday 9/18 @ Various locations
This week, the eclectic MPTF celebrates oddball musical instruments and the musicians who build and play them. Recent participants include innovative...
Thursday 9/18 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Thursday 9/18 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Thursday 9/18 @ White Walls Gallery
Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama posters flooded city walls and the public consciousness earlier this year with a burst...
Thursday 9/18 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Thursday 9/18 @ Johansson Projects
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Thursday 9/18 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
Thursday 9/18 @ Aurora Theatre
It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the...
Thursday 9/18 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
Thursday 9/18 @ Needles & Pens
From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an...
Thursday 9/18 @ 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...
