Events on Thursday, April 9
Thursday 4/ 9 @ California Academy of Sciences
As part of a worldwide celebration of space exploration, Yuri's Night (named for Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space) brings...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Bottom of the Hill
Touring is an exhausting affair. For indie-pop purveyors Headlights — who logged over 300 shows in support of their debut EP,...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Bedford Gallery
It all started in 2004, when Frank Warren distributed 3,000 postcards to total strangers. The rules were simple: write down a...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each...
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Chiara Clemente's Our City Dreams is a lyrical and joyful portrait of five female artists reflecting on their shared home of...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
