Events on Saturday, April 4
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Zellerbach Hall
David Rakoff has a wry sense of humor, a sharp eye for the grotesque, and a penchant for blunt honesty —...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Bottom of the Hill
They may be from Japan, but when Acid Mothers Temple visit North America's most psychedelic city, it always feels like a...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ SF Camerawork
In 2003, an 1857 albumen print of Gustave Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète set the new world record for the...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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....
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ SFMOMA
Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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....
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Bedford Gallery
It all started in 2004, when Frank Warren distributed 3,000 postcards to total strangers. The rules were simple: write down a...
San Francisco Women's Film Festival
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Various locations
Hitchcock, Scorsese, Kubrick, Tarantino, the Coen brothers — the book of cinematic history is filled with the names of male filmmakers...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Outhouse of the Apocalypse
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Looking at artist Kristen Morgin's nimbly crafted sculptures — such as a faded, dent-laden pedal car — it's hard to avoid...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Sleek, colorless efficiency be damned; Irreverent presents two sides of the new Scandinavian art. Blending homage to traditional materials and processes...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ The Castro Theatre
Godard's Made in U.S.A. (1966) was shown once in the United States, at the 1967 New York Film Festival, after which...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Ratio 3
Even though SF artist Jonathan Runcio has likened his vibrantly hued, three-dimensional works to "crumpled paintings," his exhibition at Ratio 3...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
