Events on Saturday, June 27
Saturday 6/27 @ 111 Minna Gallery
Frank Chu is nothing if not a San Francisco institution. The 12 Galaxies placard-holding, conspiracy theory-spouting, and local media-hogging one-man show...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ 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...
Saturday 6/27 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Saturday 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ Million Fishes
James Joyce's description of the piano as a "coffin of music" might come to mind when entering one of Tyson Ayer's...
Saturday 6/27 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Visual catchphrases borrowed from Lynch, Bergman, and Billy Wilder get a thoroughly modern treatment in the Turkish noir Three Monkeys, a...
Saturday 6/27 @ 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...
Saturday 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Saturday 6/27 @ The Independent
With competitive air guitar bigger than ever, we look forward to the days when an entire generation has been weaned on...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 6/27 @ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ Various locations
Revolution is in the air and on the screen at Frameline33. Closing night of the world's largest and oldest LGBT film...
Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
Saturday 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...
Saturday 6/27 @ 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...
Saturday 6/27 @ 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...
Saturday 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ 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...
Saturday 6/27 @ The Regency Ballroom
Major Lazer — a rogue Jamaican commando who fights zombies with his laser appendages and a rocket-powered skateboard — is the...
Saturday 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ Various locations
Tackling what our president refers to as the "unlikely story that is America," 17 companies hailing from points near and far...
39th Annual SF Pride Celebration and Parade
Saturday 6/27 @ Civic Center
With frustration growing over President Obama's condescending and ill-thought-out brand of "fierce advocacy" on behalf of LGBT Americans, this year's Pride...
Saturday 6/27 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Saturday 6/27 @ Ashby Stage
The devil has come to roost at the Shotgun Players' Ashby Stage, and the pairing is indeed delicious. Faust Part One...
Saturday 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ 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...
