Events on Friday, June 26
Friday 6/26 @ Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
Released nearly three decades ago, Brian Eno and David Byrne's first collaboration, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, went out...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/26 @ The Shooting Gallery
Appearances are deceiving in Greg Gossel's art. Although they're far from photorealistic, Gossel's works share as much of an affinity with...
Friday 6/26 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Objectified is speckled with scenes you've seen before — such as rows of people inside the translucent walls of an Apple...
Friday 6/26 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Friday 6/26 @ The Regency Ballroom
Major Lazer — a rogue Jamaican commando who fights zombies with his laser appendages and a rocket-powered skateboard — is the...
Friday 6/26 @ 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
Friday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Various locations
Tackling what our president refers to as the "unlikely story that is America," 17 companies hailing from points near and far...
Friday 6/26 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Friday 6/26 @ 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...
Friday 6/26 @ Ashby Stage
The devil has come to roost at the Shotgun Players' Ashby Stage, and the pairing is indeed delicious. Faust Part One...
Friday 6/26 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Frequently hailed as the Jean Luc Godard of Japan, Nagisa Oshima has a reputation as one of his country's foremost radical...
Friday 6/26 @ 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,...
Friday 6/26 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
You would need a heart of stone to not be charmed by Herb and Dorothy Vogel; Megumi Sasaki's sweet, low-key documentary...
Friday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Friday 6/26 @ 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...
Friday 6/26 @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
In the late '90s, graffiti art collective the Barnstormers invaded the rural town of Cameron, North Carolina, and covered farmhouses and...
Friday 6/26 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
Friday 6/26 @ Triple Base
All that glitters isn't gold in Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk's complementary exhibitions at Triple Base — but what shines is...
Friday 6/26 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Friday 6/26 @ The Independent
With competitive air guitar bigger than ever, we look forward to the days when an entire generation has been weaned on...
Friday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Various locations
Revolution is in the air and on the screen at Frameline33. Closing night of the world's largest and oldest LGBT film...
Friday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Trading in glitz and gloss for elegant understatement, American pottery master Warren MacKenzie has spent half a century crafting simple, eminently...
Friday 6/26 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Trannyshack emeriti Heklina, Cookie Dough, Pollo del Mar, and Matthew Martin reprise their roles as
Friday 6/26 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Visual catchphrases borrowed from Lynch, Bergman, and Billy Wilder get a thoroughly modern treatment in the Turkish noir Three Monkeys, a...
Friday 6/26 @ 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...
