Events on Friday, September 26
Friday 9/26 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
In the same way that Michelangelo Antonioni has been described as the quintessential modernist filmmaker of the early '60s, Sixth Generation...
Friday 9/26 @ Club Mighty
Tongiht, Mighty hosts a showcase of two of
Friday 9/26 @ SomArts Cultural Center
Part gutter/glitter fashion show, part drag Oscars, the Desperate Divas competition pits local gender benders against one another for a worthy...
Friday 9/26 @ Cafe du Nord
Chicha might have been another lost artifact of the Amazon had it not been for a boom box on the streets...
Kim Gordon Meets Phantom Orchard
Friday 9/26 @ Montalvo Arts Center
These mad scientists of sound create the most gorgeous noise since, well, any of their previous projects. A convocation of the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/26 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ The Independent
Inspiration to guitar-dads everywhere, Mission of Burma prove the rock doesn't have to stop on the other side of the hill....
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
Friday 9/26 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Friday 9/26 @ Great Meadow, Fort Mason
The blues may have well-documented origins in the Mississippi Delta, but the country's longest continuously running blues fest calls the Bay...
Friday 9/26 @ Cartoon Art Museum
If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Friday 9/26 @ Intersection for the Arts
With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from...
Friday 9/26 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Friday 9/26 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare
Friday 9/26 @ Zellerbach Hall
Cal Performances snags the hotly anticipated West Coast premiere of Mark Morris' adaptation of Sergey Prokofiev's ballet, based on the Bard's...
Friday 9/26 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and...
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Friday 9/26 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Friday 9/26 @ Annunciation Cathedral
This festival of Hellenic flavor, hosted by the parish of Annunciation Cathedral, is a treat for both foodies and cultural savants....
Friday 9/26 @ 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...
Friday 9/26 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Friday 9/26 @ David Cunningham Projects
The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Ping Pong Gallery
Deft with scissors, collage artist Gwenaël Rattke has been cutting things up since his teen years in Berlin, where he got...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Needles & Pens
From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an...
Friday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Post Street Theatre
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood...
