Events on Friday, May 1
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/ 1 @ Climate Theater
Drag queens, tranny chasers, and more than a few squares had their collective breath knocked out of them in 2003 when...
San Francisco International Film Festival
Friday 5/ 1 @ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...
Friday 5/ 1 @ SF Camerawork
In 2003, an 1857 albumen print of Gustave Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète set the new world record for the...
Friday 5/ 1 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Friday 5/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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....
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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....
Friday 5/ 1 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Brava Theater Center
Imagine Cirque du Soleil merging with a b-boy championship, and you'll have something close to City Circus, a company that brings...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Ratio 3
Even though SF artist Jonathan Runcio has likened his vibrantly hued, three-dimensional works to "crumpled paintings," his exhibition at Ratio 3...
Friday 5/ 1 @ CounterPULSE
How much wild, politically conscious, no-holds-barred creativity can you pack into a black box theater? Nonprofit CounterPULSE puts the estimate at...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Silverman Gallery
Desirée Holman knows a thing or two about the power of make-believe. The recent SECA Award recipient often utilizes handmade costumes,...
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ David Cunningham Projects
If you were to unpack all the dense layers of association, reference, and personal connection in this show, you still might...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Novellus Theater
Once dubbed "the naughty boy" of the dance world, Paul Taylor might well be the most sought after choreographer working today....
Friday 5/ 1 @ Altman Siegel Gallery
Matt Keegan's work — on display for the first time in San Francisco — features video, photographic, and sculptural elements, exploring...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ SFMOMA
Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
