Events on Thursday, April 23
Thursday 4/23 @ Root Division
Bringing together visual artists and gourmet chefs, Taste 2009 features delectables from restaurants like Andalu and Beretta, paired with infusions from...
Thursday 4/23 @ The Grand Ballroom
Bad dreams are relative. Watching Derek Jarman's hourlong film experiment In the Shadow Of the Sun — with its color-shifting, home...
Thursday 4/23 @ Great American Music Hall
Madcap songsmith Dan Deacon usually performs solo, convincing sweaty audience members to engage in dance-offs, group chants, and mass fits of...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
San Francisco International Film Festival
Thursday 4/23 @ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...
Thursday 4/23 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ Climate Theater
Drag queens, tranny chasers, and more than a few squares had their collective breath knocked out of them in 2003 when...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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....
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ Ratio 3
Even though SF artist Jonathan Runcio has likened his vibrantly hued, three-dimensional works to "crumpled paintings," his exhibition at Ratio 3...
Thursday 4/23 @ Hypnodrome
Horror, erotica, and live theatre collide and combine for the ménage-à-trois of hair-raising delights that is the Thrillpeddlers' modern-day Grand Guignol....
Thursday 4/23 @ Silverman Gallery
Desirée Holman knows a thing or two about the power of make-believe. The recent SECA Award recipient often utilizes handmade costumes,...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ Cobb's Comedy Club
Longtime standup comedian Tracy Morgan brings his stream-of-consciousness jokes to Cobb's for a slew of shows over three nights. After seven...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Big Art Group specializes in manufacturing performance-art pieces that masquerade as grenades. Its newest proto-anarchist concoction, S.O.S., plays at first glance...
Thursday 4/23 @ Altman Siegel Gallery
Matt Keegan's work — on display for the first time in San Francisco — features video, photographic, and sculptural elements, exploring...
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ SF Camerawork
In 2003, an 1857 albumen print of Gustave Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète set the new world record for the...
Thursday 4/23 @ SFMOMA
Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
Thursday 4/23 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Thursday 4/23 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Thursday 4/23 @ 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...
