Events on Saturday, May 2
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Mission Dolores Park
Dolores Park hosts a pretty darn festive Cinco de Mayo party. With its central location and a gorgeous view of the...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Bottom of the Hill
Bob Log III is a country-fried, one-man band with vicious guitar chops and a serious attitude. Log's shows are raucous affairs,...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Donald Richie recently commented that the films of Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara "extend our appreciation of reality." Indeed, Hara's vision is...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ DNA Lounge
Incredibly Strange Wrestling may be no more, but the anarchic, body-slamming spirit of that bygone local institution lives on in Fog...
Ongoing Events
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ CounterPULSE
How much wild, politically conscious, no-holds-barred creativity can you pack into a black box theater? Nonprofit CounterPULSE puts the estimate at...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
Van Morrison skipped California on his last trip to the US supporting Keep it Simple, his first all-original...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ Novellus Theater
Once dubbed "the naughty boy" of the dance world, Paul Taylor might well be the most sought after choreographer working today....
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
San Francisco International Film Festival
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Climate Theater
Drag queens, tranny chasers, and more than a few squares had their collective breath knocked out of them in 2003 when...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
