Events on Tuesday, August 18

Max Tundra w/ Cryptacize

Music: Electronic

Max Tundra

Tuesday 8/18 @ Cafe du Nord

The Max Tundra faithful waited an excruciating six years for Parallax Error Beheads You, the follow-up to the groundbreakingly idiosyncratic Mastered... 

Pissed Jeans w/ Mi Ami and Hissing Wound

Music

Pissed Jeans

Tuesday 8/18 @ Bottom of the Hill

Allentown, Pennsylvania, might not be the first place you think of for groundbreaking heavy rock — in fact, excepting Billy Joel's... 

Ongoing Events

<em>August: Osage County</em>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Tuesday 8/18 @ Curran Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

Rebecca Martinez: <em>Beauty Challenged</em>

Art: Photography

Rebecca Martinez

Tuesday 8/18 @ Robert Tat Gallery

Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of... 

<em>Then and Now: Photographs by Sebasti&atilde;o Salgado</em>

Art: Photography

Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Beyond ESPN: An Offbeat Look at the Sports Film

Film

Beyond ESPN

Tuesday 8/18 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Sports, like romance, have become somewhat of an over-determined cinematic subject. Beyond ESPN, a series of sports-themed films and docs curated... 

<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

<em>Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004</em>

Art: Photography

Richard Avedon

Tuesday 8/18 @ SFMOMA

Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of... 

<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Stepology: 2009 Bay Area Tap Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Stepology

Tuesday 8/18 @ Various locations

This year's Bay Area Tap Festival will have dance aficionados clicking their heels in delight. In addition to a variety of... 

Mark Baugh-Sasaki: <em>Adaptations</em>

Art

Mark Baugh-Sasaki

Tuesday 8/18 @ Hayes Valley Park

The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing  (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the... 

Warren MacKenzie: <em>Legacy of an American Potter</em>

Art

Warren MacKenzie

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

John Baldessari: <em>A Print Retrospective</em>

Art

John Baldessari

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

<em>The Cresting Wave: San Francisco Underground Comix Experience</em>

Art

The Cresting Wave

Tuesday 8/18 @ Electric Works

Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to... 

Conservatory of Flowers presents <em>Edible Expeditions</em>

Special Event

Edible Expeditions

Tuesday 8/18 @ Conservatory of Flowers

Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to... 

Secrets Beyond the Door: Treasures from the UCLA Festival of Preservation

Film

Secrets Beyond the Door

Tuesday 8/18 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Forget BlueRay discs and plasma TVs. For true cinephiles, nothing lets a movie really sing like a pristine celluloid print. In... 

Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass: 12th and Final Season

Festival: Film

Midnight Mass

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Looking In: Robert Frank's <em>The Americans</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Frank's The Americans

Tuesday 8/18 @ SFMOMA

In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,... 

<em>Hunted and Gathered: Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Hunted and Gathered

Tuesday 8/18 @ Modernism

Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos... 

<em>10x10x10: An Invitational Exhibition </em>

Art: Photography

10x10x10

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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...