Events on Thursday, April 16

Junior Boys w/ Max Tundra

Music: Electronic

Junior Boys

Thursday 4/16 @ Bimbo's

The Max Tundra faithful waited an excruciating six years for Parallax Error Beheads You, the follow-up to the groundbreakingly idiosyncratic Mastered... 

Tinariwen

Music: Global

Tinariwen

Thursday 4/16 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

Music will set you free, or, in a perfect world, overthrow the entire government of Mali. Tinariwen are the... 

Ongoing Events

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Thursday 4/16 @ Fort Mason Center

Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with... 

Migdalia Valdes: <em>Every Day in Black and White</em>

Art: Photography

Migdalia Valdes

Thursday 4/16 @ Intersection for the Arts

Ten years ago, Migdalia Valdes decided she would snap a roll of film a day for the rest of her life.... 

<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Thursday 4/16 @ 499 Castro St

One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class... 

Jonathan Runcio: <em>Capital Zero</em>

Art

Jonathan Runcio

Thursday 4/16 @ Ratio 3

Even though SF artist Jonathan Runcio has likened his vibrantly hued, three-dimensional works to "crumpled paintings," his exhibition at Ratio 3... 

Chris Dave & Friends feat. Mos Def

Music: Hip-Hop

Chris Dave

Thursday 4/16 @ Yoshi's Oakland

Jazz-obsessed drummer Chris "Daddy" Dave has a way of humanizing the most outrageous rhythms — a talent that has made him... 

<em>Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye</em>

Art

Galaxy

Thursday 4/16 @ Berkeley Art Museum

With the financial crisis affecting all spheres of the market, including the art world, it's not surprising that museums are looking... 

Frank Warren's <em>PostSecret</em>

Art

PostSecret

Thursday 4/16 @ Bedford Gallery

It all started in 2004, when Frank Warren distributed 3,000 postcards to total strangers. The rules were simple: write down a... 

<em>Under a Full Moon: 30 Years of Perpetual Indulgence</em>

Special Event

Under a Full Moon

Thursday 4/16 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Clad in their trademark brazier-like wimples and Kabuki-meets-Mardis Gras makeup, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have always carried out their good... 

Paul McCarthy: <em>Low Life Slow Life: Part 2 </em>

Art

Paul McCarthy

Thursday 4/16 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Paul McCarthy's career can be described as a movement from liquids to solids. The artist's early performance-based work — which found... 

Yan Pei-Ming: <em>YES!</em>

Art

Yan Pei-Ming

Thursday 4/16 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries

The large-scale oil paintings and watercolors in Yan Pei-Ming's first West Coast show bear the scars of an ongoing struggle with... 

<em>The Story</em>

Theatre

The Story

Thursday 4/16 @ SF Playhouse

In the West Coast premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson's play, the ever-present issue of integrity in journalism is brought to the... 

<em>Warhol Live</em>

Art

Warhol Live

Thursday 4/16 @ de Young Museum

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," Andy Warhol once quipped. Warhol Live focuses on the artist's... 

Nick Cave: <em>Meet Me at the Center of the Earth</em>

Art

Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

Thursday 4/16 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

In an exhibit that the New York Times labeled "must be seen to be believed," dancer and visual artist Nick Cave... 

Sean McFarland: <em>Pictures of Earth</em>

Art: Photography

Sean McFarland

Thursday 4/16 @ SF Camerawork

In 2003, an 1857 albumen print of Gustave Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète set the new world record for the... 

William Kentridge: <em>Five Themes</em>

Art

William Kentridge

Thursday 4/16 @ SFMOMA

Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each... 

Cathleen Naundorf: <em>Rare Elegance</em>

Art: Photography

Cathleen Naundorf

Thursday 4/16 @ Robert Tat Gallery

One of the world's foremost fashion photographers, Cathleen Naundorf often looks to the medium's golden age for inspiration. Typically shooting in... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Thursday 4/16 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by... 

<em>The Watcher in the Woods</em>

Art

The Watcher in the Woods

Thursday 4/16 @ Gallery 1988

If you've ever seen Disney's one-off horror film The Watcher in the Woods (1980), you can imagine the creepiness of a... 

J. MAYER H.: <em>Patterns of Speculation</em>

Art

J. MAYER H.

Thursday 4/16 @ SFMOMA

J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than... 

Ranjani Shettar

Art

Ranjani Shettar

Thursday 4/16 @ SFMOMA

Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of... 

<em>Audacious Artefacts: Parisian Grand Guignol</em>

Theatre

Audacious Artefacts

Thursday 4/16 @ Hypnodrome

Horror, erotica, and live theatre collide and combine for the nage-à-trois of hair-raising delights that is the Thrillpeddlers' modern-day Grand Guignol.... 

<em>Wings for Words: New Bookworks from Korea and Japan</em>

Art

Wings for Words

Thursday 4/16 @ San Francisco Center for the Book

The San Francisco Center for the Book adds an international spin to its venerable collection of artists' books with Wings for... 

<em>Heroes and Villains</em>

Art

Heroes and Villains

Thursday 4/16 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective

The aptly titled Heroes and Villains is an eclectic exhibition bringing together a spectrum of works that focus on everyone's favorite... 

<em>Draw</em>

Art

Draw

Thursday 4/16 @ The Shooting Gallery

Draw offers up over 300 sketched specimens from the urban jungle — skateboard designs, music-related art, tattoos, graffiti — with everything... 

2008 SECA Art Award

Art

2008 SECA Art Award

Thursday 4/16 @ SFMOMA

SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights... 

<em>Inside/Outside: Artist Environments</em>

Art

Inside/Outside

Thursday 4/16 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art

From Kurt Schwitter's Merzbau to Donald Judd's Marfa, Texas ranch, artists have long made their homes extensions of their studios, and... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Thursday 4/16 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...