Events on Wednesday, July 15
Wednesday 7/15 @ City Lights
Like the old judge's dictum about pornography, we know obscenity when we see it. But what we see is often blinkered...
Ongoing Events
Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
Wednesday 7/15 @ Various locations
The little local arts-and-music-festival-that-could just keeps getting bigger and better. Now celebrating its 13th year, Mission Creek has expanded its scope,...
Wednesday 7/15 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Lucrecia Martel dabbled in documentaries, shorts, and children's films before ascending to become one of the reigning heavyweights of New Argentine...
Wednesday 7/15 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Wednesday 7/15 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
John Baldessari's turbulent, on-again, off-again love affair with Los Angeles is as inseparable from the story of contemporary West Coast art...
Wednesday 7/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/15 @ Needles & Pens
Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20...
Wednesday 7/15 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Wednesday 7/15 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
San Francisco Bicycle Film Festival
Wednesday 7/15 @ Various locations
As we mentioned last week, San Francisco just got a little more bike-friendly, with the approved addition of 30-plus miles of...
Ninth Annual Fire Arts Festival
Wednesday 7/15 @ The Crucible Fire Arts Arena, Wake Street at West Grand Avenue, Oakland CA 94607
The Crucible's ninth-annual Fire Arts Festival is the largest event of its kind on the West Coast. Be astonished by colossal...
Wednesday 7/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/15 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Wednesday 7/15 @ San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco is often described by its square mileage (7x7), but the city's Art Comission Gallery and PhotoAlliance have expanded those...
Wednesday 7/15 @ 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,...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Wednesday 7/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/15 @ Landmark Bridge Theater
It could be a tabloid headline: "Cult-movie host morphs into seven-figure film director." Instead, it's the end to this 12th season...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Wednesday 7/15 @ 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...
