Events on Tuesday, July 21
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Tuesday 7/21 @ Rickshaw Stop
Sure, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart are still a little wet behind the ears, but they've polished their style...
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Tuesday 7/21 @ Bottom of the Hill
Last year, Owen Ashworth, the SF-based film-school dropout and master of melancholy, celebrated ten years of his aptly named musical project,...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Needles & Pens
Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20...
Tuesday 7/21 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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,...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
For decades, Hayao Miyazaki's films have amazed and inspired audiences with their unique animation and enthralling storylines. In anticipation of his...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
