Events on Friday, July 17
Friday 7/17 @ CELLspace
It turns out those quad-skating fiends in the Bay Area Derby Girls aren't just fearsome roller chicks — they've also got...
Friday 7/17 @ Bottom of the Hill
Everyone needs more men in their life — especially if they happen to include dapper calendar girl and former Le Tigre...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/17 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in...
Friday 7/17 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Friday 7/17 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Friday 7/17 @ 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...
Friday 7/17 @ 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,...
San Francisco Bicycle Film Festival
Friday 7/17 @ 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...
Friday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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...
Friday 7/17 @ 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...
Friday 7/17 @ 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...
Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
Friday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Friday 7/17 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The Internet has undoubtedly been one of the biggest factors in helping kink come into the mainstream — not to mention...
Friday 7/17 @ 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...
Friday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Friday 7/17 @ 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...
Friday 7/17 @ Needles & Pens
Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20...
Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
Friday 7/17 @ 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,...
Friday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Friday 7/17 @ 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...
Ninth Annual Fire Arts Festival
Friday 7/17 @ 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...
Friday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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...
