Events on Thursday, July 23
Thursday 7/23 @ Mezzanine
For a skinny kid from Pittsburgh who smashes buttons for a living, Girl Talk has come a long way in the...
Thursday 7/23 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Experimental filmmaker Curtis Harrington made his feature debut with this moody tale of doomed romance. Dennis Hopper (in one of his...
Ongoing Events
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Thursday 7/23 @ Various locations
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is always an eye-opening reminder of the diversity and variety of experience that falls under...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ Various locations
Whether you're a lover of lyric or a connoisseur of concrete poetry, the International Poetry Festival is an excellent opportunity to...
Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
Thursday 7/23 @ 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,...
Thursday 7/23 @ Needles & Pens
Sun, surf, and sand are the guests of honor at Needles and Pens' OCEAN + BEACH. The exhibit brings together 20...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Thursday 7/23 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
Thursday 7/23 @ Triple Base
All that glitters isn't gold in Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk's complementary exhibitions at Triple Base — but what shines is...
Thursday 7/23 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Thursday 7/23 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
Thursday 7/23 @ 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...
