Events on Thursday, May 14
Thursday 5/14 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Josh Kun is the co-author of You Shall Know Us by the Trail of our Vinyl, a delightful dissection — depicted...
Thursday 5/14 @ Swedish American Hall
Recorded in a New Orleans kitchen, Swedish singer Theresa Andersson's latest album, Hummingbird, Go!, incorporates everything from the tapping of soda...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/14 @ American Conservatory Theater
Motorcycle Diaries screenwriter José Rivera spent a decade ruminating, fidgeting, and fixating on his new play between other projects, but couldn't...
Thursday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Intersection for the Arts
Acting group Campo Santo cook up an extremely playful take on Junot Diaz's Pulitzer-prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...
Thursday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ New Langton Arts
Entering Pae White's exhibit is a bit like walking into a different time, in another place and culture altogether. This is,...
Thursday 5/14 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Thursday 5/14 @ David Brower Center
Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed...
Thursday 5/14 @ Roxie Theater
It may sound funny to claim that film noir itself has a seedy underbelly, but I Wake Up Dreaming — the...
Thursday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Thursday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Altman Siegel Gallery
Matt Keegan's work — on display for the first time in San Francisco — features video, photographic, and sculptural elements, exploring...
Thursday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ SFMOMA
Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each...
Thursday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Kenneth Josephson's black-and-white photographs of "pictures within pictures" laid the groundwork for conceptual photography, bringing into question our notions of illusion...
Thursday 5/14 @ 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...
