Events on Saturday, May 16
Saturday 5/16 @ DNA Lounge
Sharpen your axes, replenish your drinking horns, and give thanks to the gods, because PaganFest America — the US leg of...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Saturday 5/16 @ Glama-Rama Salon
Sean Owens' hair-raising tribute to the Southern-fried chick flicks of the '80s — such as Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart,...
Saturday 5/16 @ Altman Siegel Gallery
Matt Keegan's work — on display for the first time in San Francisco — features video, photographic, and sculptural elements, exploring...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ SFMOMA
Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
Saturday 5/16 @ Silverman Gallery
Desirée Holman knows a thing or two about the power of make-believe. The recent SECA Award recipient often utilizes handmade costumes,...
Saturday 5/16 @ SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio
If one person's trash is another person's treasure, that same trash can be the source material for another person's art. So...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ David Cunningham Projects
If you were to unpack all the dense layers of association, reference, and personal connection in this show, you still might...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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...
Saturday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Roxie Theater
It may sound funny to claim that film noir itself has a seedy underbelly, but I Wake Up Dreaming — the...
Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
Saturday 5/16 @ Triple Base
All that glitters isn't gold in Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk's complementary exhibitions at Triple Base — but what shines is...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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...
